The 10-lesson (5 CDs) Basic Course gives customers the chance to test drive the incredibly effective and efficient, world-famous Pimsleur Comprehensive Program. A real try it before you buy it deal. Customers will love the experience of acquiring the essential grammar and vocabulary of Spanish, during the spoken practice sessions. It is this ease of language acquisition that makes the full Comprehensive Pimsleur Program so popular and successful for adult language learners.
Very helpful If you REALLY want to begin to understand and speak basic Spanish, I recommend this. It assumes you don’t know any Spanish. I listened and responded, sometimes repeating sections so could immediately respond correctly in Spanish. If I didn’t get it at first, I would rewind it and repeat it until I got it. I only have a 15 minute commute and I was able to learn it all.After I finished this I went to the public library and got the full Pimsleur Spanish 1. It’s Lesson 9 picks up…
Good but very basic Having taken Spanish 1 and studied on my own from teach-yourself books, I found Pimsleur’s Basic Spanish CD set pretty easy, though it was good for practicing pronunciation. I think this would be more useful for true beginners. I was, however, appalled at the cost of the more advanced CD sets and will not be able to continue with Pimsleur.
Spanish speaking virgin weighs in I have never taken spanish in school. I work in health care and really want to be able to communicate with my spanish patients. I am only through lesson 4 and I feel like it is very easy and that I am making good progress. However I wish it were Latin American spanish instead of the more formal version that is used here. I am just substituting “mucho gusto” for “encantada” when I respond out loud for example. I could see how the slow pace would frustrate those of you that have had spanish in…