Pimsleur Italian Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Italian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Volume 1)

The pace and repetition of new vocabulary and phrases followed by short conversations is excellent, in my opinion. Through modelling, attention is paid to correct pronunciation. As new vocabulary is introduced , the previous vocabulary words and phrases are reviewed and incorporated. There are no written materials so that the learner is only listening to the correct pronunciation and not trying to use English phonetics of printed words. By the time I finish this set of 16, 30-minute lessons I think I will be confident with simple, conversational Italian.

I found this nothing special. it repeats few sentences many many times...but does not cover lots of subjects.Langenscheit series are much better.

I would highly recommend this set of CDs for beginners to Italian. Listening to it in the car to and from work has improved my italian enormously. Simple and easy to follow. I'm just about to buy the next set!

Ive been doing a lot of research about the Pimsleur method and decided to start with this purchase. Trying to decide which methods I wanted to use to help me learn. I finished all the cds and was amazed! I pretty much got everything that was said on every cd, so it was easy for me to progress onto the new cd. I think I have a natural language learning ability and can speak some Spanish, so it wasn't that bad. One has to recognize the program for what it is: an audio course. If your intent is to SPEAK the language, this is the way to go (as well as hearing). I will probably go with rocket Italian in the future to supplement this (either after I finish the whole Pimselur or right before). I dont mind there is is no transcripts. Usually, every time they introduce a word or phrase, you will hear it MULTIPLE times again. There were a few exceptions. For instance, in the first few cds, there was something long the female said near the end of the lesson. I kept trying to figure out what she said before going on to the next lesson.I eventually did before I started the next one. Surprisingly, they never went back over it:/. But most everything they do. I also wish they didnt spend so much time on saying street and avenue. There is so much to talk about, even vocab, i felt they kept going over that too much. I posted on my Facebook I cant imagine where I will be after 100 lessons. I disagree with people online (ive found various Pimsleur forums etc)in that you cant get on the track to fluency with this. After all lessons, you will probably have a good speaking knowledge of Italian. Remember, there is a difference between fluency and being like a native. If you start to think in the language, its one sign you are becoming more and more fluent. I am just now starting on lesson 17 and continuing with the rest. I have a couple Italian friends online. Writing to them even now and then (maybe even skyping to them in the future) along with finishing this product, and I will be really good to go. Visiting an actual location is only really good because you have no other choice but to be submersed in the language. You can, however, get it other ways like how I am doing it. I speak a good amount of Spanish and in many ways feel I know a lot more about Italian grammar (w/ out awareness) than with Spanish.

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