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Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his
life to language teaching and was one of the world's leading experts in
applied linguistics. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French from Columbia
University, he taught French Phonetics and Phonemics, and supervised the
language laboratory at UCLA. He went on to become Professor of Romance
Languages and Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center at
Ohio State University; Professor of Education and Romance Languages at the
State University of New York at Albany; and a Fulbright lecturer at the
University of Heidelberg. Dr. Pimsleur was a member of the American
Association of Teachers of French (AATF), American Educational Research
Association (AERA), Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding
member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL). His many books and articles revolutionized theories of language
learning and teaching. After years of experience and research, Dr.
Pimsleur developed a new method that is based on two key principles: the
"Principle of Anticipation" and a scientific principle of memory that he
called "Graduated Interval Recall". This program incorporates both of
these principles to provide you with the most simple and effective
learning method possible.
In the 1960s Dr. Pimsleur recognized a growing
need for self-instruction language learning materials, and his
programmatic tapes were designed with that specific purpose in mind:
to offer effective self-instruction in building listening and speaking
skills in the essential components of everyday speech. With the
Pimsleur method, you as a student are not just receiving
information, but are being trained in the skills you want to end up
with: being able to construct your own sentences and say them
quickly, with good pronunciation. Whether you want to learn in your
car on the way to work, strolling in the park with a walkman, or just
while doing the dishes at home, you can be speaking a new language in as
little as 30 days!
With Pimsleur Language
Programs you don't just study a language, you
learn it -- the same way you mastered English!
And because the technique relies on interactive
spoken language training, the Pimsleur Language
Programs are totally audio -- no book is needed!
The Pimsleur programs provide a
method of self-practice with an expert teacher
and native speakers in lessons specially
designed to work with the way the mind naturally
acquires language information. The various
components of language -- vocabulary,
pronunciation and grammar -- are all learned
together without rote memorization and drills.
Using a unique method of memory recall developed
by renowned linguist, Dr. Paul Pimsleur, the
programs teach listeners to combine words and
phrases to express themselves the way native
speakers do. By listening and responding to
thirty minute recorded lessons, students easily
and effectively achieve spoken proficiency.
No other language program or school
is as quick, convenient, and effective as the
Pimsleur Language Programs.
The
Comprehensive Program is the ultimate in spoken
language learning. For those who want to become
proficient in the language of their choice, the
Comprehensive programs go beyond the Basic
Programs to offer spoken-language fluency. Using
the same simple method of interactive
self-practice with native speakers, these
comprehensive programs provide a complete
language learning course. The Comprehensive
Program is available in a wide variety of
languages and runs through three levels (thirty
lessons each) in French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Russian ,persian
(www.nosratco.com),
Spanish. At the end of a full Comprehensive
Program listeners will be conducting complete
conversations and be well on their way to
mastering the language. The Comprehensive
Programs are all available on cassettes and are
also on CD in the six languages in which we
offer the Basic Program on CD.
by Dr. Paul Pimsleur
Learning to speak and understand a new language is
easier than you think, when you use the proven teaching method of Dr.
Paul Pimsleur. The Pimsleur Language Programs are the Number One
choice for thousands of business people who want to learn a new language
on their own. That's because Pimsleur is the only
self-instructive language program that guarantees your success. Best of
all, there is NO need for memorizing vocabulary lists, grammar rules,
or completing written homework assignments.
Learn to speak and understand a new language -- guaranteed!
Just listen and respond to the Pimsleur tapes 30 minutes a day. You'll
quickly reach a basic conversational fluency level. You'll be able to
converse confidently without translation aids. If you are not completely
satisfied with your new language skills, return the program for a
full refund within 60 days, no questions asked. We are so
confident in these courses that we offer not just 30 days, but 60
days for you to evaluate this course. This is twice our normal
30-day return policy.
With Pimsleur, you don't just learn about language. You learn
how to speak it - the same way you mastered English as a child. You'll
learn vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar all at once. Right away,
you'll be combining words and phrases to express your own ideas.
Listen and respond to your Pimsleur Language Tapes for just a
half-hour a day. We guarantee you'll reach a conversational level that
would take months using a conventional language learning program!
Whether you want to master a new language for business or for plesure,
you'll find each Pimsleur Language Program practical—and fun—from
the very first lesson.
Who is Dr. Paul Pimsleur? Dr. Paul Pimsleur was a
brilliant linguist and renowned language educator who dedicated his
career to making language learning easier. His interactive Pimsleur
Language Programs, based on a learning principle he termed
"anticipation," turned an ordinary audio-cassette tape player into a
sophisticated teaching system.
Why is his unique language learning method so
effective? Dr. Pimsleur's proven method is based on four
essential principles:
- Anticipation -- getting and keeping your attention.
- Graduated Interval Recall -- presenting information at the
right time makes it easier to retain.
- Organic Learning -- grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation are
presented all at once.
- Learning like a child -- repeating what you hear others say.
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Dr. Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of
the world’s leading experts in applied linguistics. After obtaining
his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University, he taught French
Phonetics and Phonemics, and supervised the language laboratory at
UCLA. He went on to become Professor of Romance Languages and
Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center at Ohio
State University; Professor of Education and Romance Languages at
the State University of New York at Albany; and a Fulbright lecturer
at the University of Heidelberg.
Dr. Pimsleur was a member of the American Association of Teachers
of French (AATF), American Educational Research Association (AERA),
Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding member of the
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). His
many books and articles revolutionized theories of language learning
and teaching.
After years of research and development, including field studies
of spoken language training with adults, Dr. Pimsleur created a new
method for self–instruction in spoken languages that is based on the
way the human brain takes in language as speech for example in
www.nosratco.com. Of the several
unique features of the Method, two key principles: the Principle of
Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory that he called
Graduated Interval Recall This is the only language teaching program
which incorporates these essential principles to provide you with
the most easy–to–do, amazingly rapid, and highly cost–effective
learning method available.
"Language, as Delattre says, is above all speech, not
writing; a language that is not spoken is called 'dead.' If you
will trust your ear, you are almost certain to speak with a good
accent. Conversely, if you trust your eye alone, your accent may
be a poor one."
Dr. Paul Pimsleur 1928 –
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Dr. Paul Pimsleur and the Revolutionary Pimsleur
Foreign Language Training
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The late Dr. Paul Pimsleur was a brilliant linguist and
renowned language educator who dedicated his career to making
language learning easier. After receiving his Ph.D. in French
from Columbia University, he taught French at UCLA, was a
Fullbright lecturer in Germany, then became director of the
Listening Center at Ohio State University.
In order to understand how we learn languages, Dr. Pimsleur
studied the language learning processes of two groups of
people--children and multi-lingual adults.
He wanted to know how
children learned languages "organically"-- without reading,
memorization, and knowing formal language structure? What
processes do fluent multi- lingual adults go though to master
their languages?
The Pimsleur
Breakthrough After years of researching
and studying these two questions, Dr. Pimsleur made a major
breakthrough that led to the now highly acclaimed Pimsleur
Language Learning System (PLLS).
Dr. Pimsleur discovered:
(1). The mechanism in the brain that
converts unintelligible human sound into language.
(2). How the brain
naturally stores the language in long term memory
(recall).
(3). How the brain
flawlessly recreates the language as speech
(articulation).
(4). How the
words spoken by others are recognized and understood
(comprehension).
He used this discovery to create a precise
formula for learning a foreign language through sound on tape.
The Pimsleur
System (1).To
learn a new language you simply listen to a Pimsleur encoded tape on
which a native speaker speaks culturally rich phrases in both
the foreign language as well as in English.
(2). You are then promoted at precise
intervals (graduated intervals) to
repeat the phrase after the native speaker finishes it.
(3). You are then
introduced to a new phrase with its sound and meaning (novelty).
(4). After repeating this phrase a few
times, you are asked to repeat the first phrase -- borrowing
from the words and meaning of the second phrase (recall & construction)
(5). Throughout the tape you are
introduced to new phrases and are prompted to recall and
repeat, at random, earlier phrases (anticipation). This random recall keeps
you attentive, forces your mind to associate words with
meaning, and triggers your mind's ability to naturally
memorize the material.
30 Days to Proficiency!!
In only 30 days at 30 minutes a day of practicing this
routine, the language, with all its fullness of meaning,
becomes almost second nature. In fact, you will be able to
think in the new language--the true measure of language
mastery!
The formula is so effective that 90%
of the people who use it become skilled in the language at the
Foreign Language Proficiency 1+ Level in only 30 days!
With this level of skill you can go to a foreign
country and converse with and understand the native population
at a "survival" level.
The breakthrough Pimsleur Language Learning System is based
on these four principles:
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Anticipation -
getting and keeping your
attention.
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Graduated Interval Recall -
presenting information at the right time
makes it easier to retain.
-
Organic learning -
vocabulary, pronunciation and listening
comprehension are presented all at once.
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Learning like a child -
reproducing what you hear others say.
With these unique teaching techniques, your progress will
come naturally without boring memorization, exercises or
grammatical rules!
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