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The
Pimsleur Breakthrough The
Pimsleur System
30-Days to Proficiency
Why
Pimsleur is So Effective
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:
- Anticipation
-
getting and keeping your attention.
- 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.
- 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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