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027164 · 04-03-2008, 08:46 PM

The Pimsleur Method

Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the world's leading experts in applied linguistics. He was fluent in French, good in German, and had a working knowledge of Italian, Russian, Modern Greek, and Mandarin Chinese. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French and a Masters in Psychology from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and Linguistics at UCLA. He later became Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center (a state-wide language lab) 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. He did research on the psychology of language learning and in 1969 was Section Head of Psychology of Second Language Learning at the International Congress of Applied Linguistics.

Each lesson is approximately 30 minutes long. Dr. Pimsleur's research shows this to be the optimum period for learning, after which the mind loses its ability to retain new information. Try your best to work through one lesson each and every day. Whether you move on to the next lesson daily or repeat those you feel unsure about, it is important that you familiarize yourself with the language on a daily basis.

Dr. Pimsleur's Method of Learning 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. His method also incorporates two other unique components that are also important: Core Vocabulary Acquisition, and the Organic Learning Method.

PIMSLEUR OWNERS MANUAL: Infomation about this language course (Generic)

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modest_mouse Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 8	Hey 027164, I can't thank you enough for this post. I only took one book, but I know it's going to help a lot of people out. Great work!

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Gingerbreadman Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 10	This is an awesome post!! Thanks for the time to put all this up. I picked up Chinese for my kids and my oldest suddenly said, I want to learn Japanese too!!! So here I am back again! thanks for the awesome post. I think I'll take the Cantonese too so I can talk to the cook at my local Chinese spot.

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