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Discover how you can learn German more effectively with less effort and better results than any other method by using the proven Pimsleur Learning System. Used by over 25 million real people throughout the world since 1980, the Pimsleur learning system is a self-teaching audio program that will give you the skills and confidence to speak German and understand native German speakers. Master pronunciation. Speak fluently.
Comprehensive Level I: Intermediate?Low Spoken Proficiency Level Upon completion of the Pimsleur Comprehensive Level I Program (30 lessons), you will have achieved spoken language communication skills at an Intermediate?Low Level. This level is characterized by the ability to participate in simple, direct conversations on everyday topics, in everyday situations; by being able to satisfy immediate needs, such as ordering food and making simple purchases; and by being able to establish rapport with strangers in a foreign country. Comprehensive Level II: Intermediate?Mid spoken Proficiency Level: Upon completion of the Pimsleur Comprehensive Level I and Level II (60 lessons), you will have achieved spoken language communication skills at an Intermediate?Mid Level. This level is characterised by creative ability in the target language and by being able to communicate personal meaning to native speakers by combining and recombining known elements and conversational input to correctly form sentences of increasing length. Comprehensive Level III: Intermediate?High Spoken Proficiency Level: Upon completion of the Pimsleur Comprehensive Level I, Level II, and Level III (90 lessons), you will have achieved spoken language communication skills at an Intermediate?High Level. This level is characterized by the ability to obtain, sustain and bring to a close a number of basic communicative exchanges, to satisfy personal needs and social demands, and to survive and cope in the target language and culture. The learner can converse with growing ease and confidence, narrate and describe in terms of past, present and future using connected discourse of considerable conversational length.
It?s not how many words you know that defines language proficiency; it?s which words you can use to communicate naturally with natives. You will learn more German in less time with the Pimsleur learning system and you will have the confidence and ability to actually use German in real-life situations. Pimsleur German will give you an incredible foundation from which you will be able to effortlessly use additional vocabulary as you learn additional words.
You probably don't remember it but at age four, you were naturally acquiring ?building blocks? for your mother language at a rate of about one item every five hours of waking time exposed to the language. By age six, having spent anywhere from 20,000 to 30,000 hours exposed, you naturally acquired the grammatical core of your language.
This Pimsleur German course will give you the same kind of exposure to German, only you will be learning it at a frequency of almost one item per minute, nearly 300 times faster. In essence, you will learn about as much useable language information in a few hours as a child does in his/her fourth year of life, with measurably outstanding retention.
Graduated Interval Recall Graduated Interval Recall is a complex name for a very simple theory about memory. No aspect of learning a foreign language is more important than memory, yet before Dr. Pimsleur's work, no one had explored more effective ways for building language memory. This method reintroduces information at key intervals during the learning process to effectively maximize retention until no reminders are needed.
Principle of Anticipation The Principle of Anticipation works by challenging you, the listener, to retrieve answers to questions from your own memory. Without interaction with native speakers, stored information becomes meaningless and therefore useless. Pimsleur's teaching method simulates direct interaction between you and a native speaker, immersing you in a meaningful exchange of communication.
This course was designed to emulate how children acquire language naturally, and YOU will learn German in the same way, only much faster and without boring yourself into a slumber. You?ve already learned one language with this approach. Your first one!
Pimsleur German courses are not magical. They are quite the opposite. Pimsleur courses offer you the means to learn German naturally. As is true with any learning endeavor, the best results will be achieved by those who have a sincere desire to learn German. You will need to be able to set aside 30 minutes each day to complete each Pimsleur lesson. The benefit lies in the fact that each lesson establishes a foundation for the next, giving you the ?tools? to partake in grammatically correct conversations with native speakers quickly and easily.
Oral history came long before written history. Most language systems fail to recognize that writing is merely a representation of a spoken language. So perhaps you should ask yourself, ?Why should I learn to read German if I can?t even speak it yet??
Over 25 million people around the world have embraced the Pimsleur learning method. Pimsleur programs are used by government departments, multi-nationals, students, travelers, individuals who have married into foreign families, business people, and curious learners alike. Why? Because the Pimsleur method works! Endorsed by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Pimsleur Language Programs offer the world the most innovative and effective means to learn a new language quickly.
