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Pimsleur Spanish Level 1 Lessons 1-5

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Pimsleur Spanish Level 1 Lessons 1-5

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 The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Spanish
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Spanish — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action.

Why Pimsleur?
• Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day.
• Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.
• Proven Method – Works when other methods fail.
• Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you.
• Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning.
• Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.
• Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.
• Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above.

What’s Included?
• 5, 30-minute audio lessons
• reading instruction to provide you with an introduction to reading Spanish and designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent
• In total, 2.5 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers
• a digital Reading Booklet

What You’ll Learn
This course includes Lessons 1-5 from the Spanish Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Spanish.

Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn Spanish and expand your horizons and enrich your life. Education Language Learning Spanish Spanish Language
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This is the best way to learn a language as used by the FBI. Highly recommend.

brilliant language course

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30 minute lessons are perfect to keep you Interesed. not too short or long. laid out perfectly just when you're about to forget something it will remind you. highly recommend.

really really great

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very good way to get you up to speed on every day spainish. never knew I could learn so much from an audiobook. I had tried one years ago and it was terrible. this is an entirely different approach

ideal and practical

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After starting the audio I was quite happy initially until that is it mention reading from the PDF, which I am unable to how you get it or to download it from.

Where's the PDF

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There must have been an update because the PDF mentioned in the programme for reading lessons (dated 2018 and referencing this as the third edition) *is now included*. I've bought these audio lessons in the past and they came with no accompanying PDF.

This PDF being included has made me aware the audio version provided on Audible might be older (I suspect it is the second edition, either this, or the PDF is wrong in regards to referenced third edition updates). Referencing the PDF - it mentions it's now less common to call people from the USA "Norteamerico/a" and now "Estados Unidos" is used. Weirdly, this change isn't reflected as an update in the Audio. The speaker keeps using "Norteamerico/a" despite the PDF mentioning this should be no longer be a thing.

The mixed messages between the PDF and the audio continues as it mentions you'll hear less "senor, senora" but this is used a lot in the first two lessons. The PDF says senorita is phased out, but this is used in the first two lessons. It says the third edition has been updated to use "Disculpe" instead of the now less common "Perdon" for excuse me. This is the only update mentioned in the PDF that I can tell has actually be carried through on the audio side.

It is true that this programme is weighted too heavily towards american male business men. Maybe this was practical when the programme was first developed but Pimsleur needs to bring itself into 2020 by not catering as heavily towards american male business men and be more inclusive. Globe trotting is no longer accessible just to this user group and has become more in reach of others.

Discrepancies between PDF and Audio updates

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