 • Buy this item from our featured Merchant - Featured Price: $345.00
 |
Product Reviews:
Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: An excellent auditory learning method
Comments: This is the third language I have learned the rudiments of via the Pimsleur method. I had Spanish and French in high school (during the last century) however I also purchased up enough German to negotiate a hiking trip in Austria and I'd never learned it before. The Spanish CDs have been a boon to me and if you are primarily an auditory learner as I seem to be, I believe you will be pleased with them. |
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Summary: Pimsleur Spanish I Review
Comments: great complement to a traditional Spanish language class.
Focuses completely on listening and speaking.
No written exercises or teaching. All vocabulary
learning is through the interactive excercises
which feature enough random repetition to keep
you on your toes.
Should be a great training for dialog and e day
conversation. I probably would not want to use
this as my only way of learning the language. |
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: Price tag out of step with quality and usefulness
Comments: I am happy to say that I did not have to pay the ultra-high price-tag for this course. My uncle has opened a language products store and I am running through some of the beginners Spanish courses to help him endorse one.
Pimsleur definitely has an innovative approach. It will help an absolute beginner get off the ground, for sure.
However,1would be much better off by purchaseing the Michel Thomas beginners course (which is far better than Pimsleur and much cheaper) plus1or2others as well as the Thomas course is light-on for non verb related voacbulary.
Many lessons have a point where a speaker starts instructing you in Spanish what to ask or say. He might say "ask him if he has seen the movie." So you say "have you seen the movie?" That exercise feels like an utter waste of time, the instructions would better have been delivered in English.
I would endorse Pimsleur if it was $50, for sure. Until it hits that price I will not endorse it to anyone who isn't loaded with cash.
|
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Simply the Best Product There Is
Comments: Pimsleur is simply the best almost all useful way to learn a language. It's practical, actually fun, challenging and effective at getting you SPEAKING a language instead of staring at a page trying to memorize rules and vocabulary.
The need to react quickly and the variety of things they throw at you really cement the knowledge and make it instinctive and not just intellectual. It's not cheap, however there is no other substitute out there that comes close to this.
You will need a great book in addition to help formally learn grammar rules and you will need to learn more vocabulary than you can on an audio program, however when it comes to hitting the ground running and internalizing a language, Pimsleur is the way to go. 6STARS. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Pimsleur Spanish 1
Comments: great product, I have had some Spanish in College this is a great refresher course, I plan to work my way through all the Spanish products Pimsleur has. I also plan to go through Rosetta Stone program after I complete the Pimsleur. I am a Realtor and this has been a big help. If you are trying to learn Spanish this is a great investment. |
