Three days later you’re shown the word again. This time it’s very familiar but you still can’t remember it until it’s shown. It’s familiar to you but you can’t remember it until the answer’s shown.Ī few hours go by and you forget it again. You come across a brand new word that you’ve never seen before.

So I’ll explain it to you in the simplest way possible by way of example: I feel it’s one of those terms which everybody knows is a good thing but most don’t actually understand what it means.

One of the terms that gets thrown around a lot in language learning discussions is ‘Spaced Repetition System’ (or SRS). Let’s deal with the most important thing first. Now on to the review… Pimsleur is not just a learning tool – it’s a method pimsleuraudio, pimsleurunlimited and so on). You’ll find other bogus domains that are just as bad, run by affiliate spammers (e.g. Simon and Schuster (who own and distribute Pimsleur) use a trademark name calling it the Pimsleur Method™ (hence the trademark symbol).Īnything calling itself the ‘Pimsleur Approach’ is fake and run by sneaky affiliates. There are countless complaints online from people who signed up to a bogus site (that looks incredibly professional and real) which hooks people into a recurring billing cycle. It’s called the ‘Pimsleur Method™’, not ‘Pimsleur Approach’.īefore we go any further, pay careful attention to this. This post will deal the core product and method of Pimsleur only. There are some new software packages available on the Simon and Schuster site but it seems to be the original Pimsleur Method™ + flash card and game apps. I’ve also studied the book How To Learn A Foreign Language by Paul Pimsleur himself which gives a lot more insight into his method. Very few reviews actually go into real depth to cover its content and effectiveness with fairness.įor the purpose of making a comprehensive analysis of the Pimsleur Method™, I’ve sampled two editions of languages that I know extremely well (Egyptian and “Eastern” Arabic), three that I know quite well (Korean, Russian and Irish), and one language that I know absolutely nothing about (Thai) to put myself in the position of a new learner. Questions about whether or not Pimsleur works do tend to pop up all over the place and a simple online search yields a lot of review and opinion pieces on it.Īs I said in my Rosetta Stone review, nearly all of the search results that you’ll find online for Pimsleur are totally suspect because they’re either motivated solely by commission rates for selling it or trying to deceive you into buying something else by dismissing it. Pimsleur is one of the longest and most well-established household names in language learning – right up there with other commercial giants like Rosetta Stone and Michel Thomas. I’ve also listed some excellent alternative resources on my Essential Language Learning Tools page to help you.

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