Teaching a lot of vocabulary is not its aim, Pimsleur teaches you basic vocabulary but, most importantly, it teaches and makes you aware of the structure of the language little by little, so when you learn new vocabulary, you can use it correctly with the structure that you’ve learned.
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Pimsleur is not really designed to teach you vocabulary or a lot of fancy words, Pimsleur is designed to teach you the structure of the language and install it in your brain, so when you need to speak it, you can access to the structure quickly and use it correctly. It’s in the first point where I feel that most people actually misunderstand Pimsleur. There's not a lot of vocabulary, there's not a lot of content, the content is irrelevant.The main two critiques that I've heard about Pimsleur (coming from a lot of language enthusiast but also renowned polyglots) are: That's pretty much all that Pimsleur sets out to do and it succeeds beautifully. Pimsleur's secondary objective is to teach you the correct phonemes and pronunciation of the language. Pimsleur's main objective is to teach you, or better yet, to install the structure of the language into your mind. The Pimsleur Method WAS NOT originally designed to be used as an auto-didactic course, it was designed to be used in a classroom.ĭespite of this, a lot of the effectiveness of the original method was able to live on to the audio program that we know nowadays.Paul Pimsleur died of a heart attack in 1971 while still working and perfecting the Pimsleur Method.However, there are two important things that you must understand about the Pimsleur Method: The Pimsleur Method is based on the concept of spaced repetition combined with the exposition of the structure of the language via interactive dialogue. The Pimsleur Language Learning System would become The Pimsleur Method that we know today. After investigating children and adults alike, he started to develop the Pimsleur Language Learning System based upon the results that he had got. He later moved on into doing Second Language Acquisition research, his main interest was to investigate how was it that kids were able to speak a language without actually knowing its structure explicitly. Pimsleur started his career as a french teacher and his area of expertise was teaching french phonetics and phonemes. A little bit of history: The Pimsleur Method was created by linguist Paul Pimsleur.
In all honesty, Pimsleur has been one of the most helpful and amazing language learning products that I've tried, but apparently, a lot of people hate it or quickly disregard it by saying that it's too boring or too repetitive. So, that's why I feel even more obligated to talk about Pimsleur than anything else. Assimil is a charismatic language learning product, mainly because the lessons are relaxing, funny and short so, I guess that's why people like it at first sight. My review of Assimil has been my most popular post so far and apparently a lot of people liked it, but there's also another language learning product that I must do justice, and that's Pimsleur. I've been wanting to write a post about Pimsleur for so long.
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