- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Pimsleur (July 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671581899
- ISBN-13: 978-0671581893
- Product Dimensions: 25.5 x 20.3 x 5.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#2,001,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #71 in Books > Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction > Serbo-Croatian
- #73 in Books > Reference > Foreign Languages > Serbo-Croatian
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Product Description
Product Description
Compact Croatian, a stand-alone 10-lesson (5 hours) program, teaches beginning language strategies for essential communication and traveling needs, plus an introduction to reading.
SPEAK CROATIAN TO LEARN CROATIAN
The Pimsleur Method will have you speaking Croatian in just a few short, easy-to-use lessons.
Learn at your own pace, comfortably and conveniently.
No books to study. No memorization drills.
LEARN CROATIAN AS YOU LEARNED ENGLISH
You learned English by listening. With Pimsleur, you listen to learn Croatian. This Language Program was developed by renowned memory expert, Dr. Paul Pimsleur. His research led him to the realization that the most important use of memory is in language learning. Based on this, Dr. Pimsleur designed a learning program that works for any language. The Pimsleur Language Program is an integrated system which immerses you in the language, encouraging you to hear, understand and use the language all at the same time.
Now you can take advantage of Dr. Pimsleur's research. At the completion of these eight lessons you will comfortably understand and speak at a beginner level.
About the Author
Dr. Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of the world's leading experts in applied linguistics. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and Phonemics, and supervised the language laboratory at UCLA. He went on to become Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center 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. Dr. Pimsleur was a member of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). His many books and articles revolutionized theories of language learning and teaching. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed a new method that 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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great set for travellers!,
By Jess Himmel (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Croatian: Learn to Speak and Understand Croatian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio Cassette)
The Pimsleur Language Program gives the student a thorough grasp of basic vocabulary and expressions through an interesting style of memory work. Working through the tapes in chronological order truly does provide the best results, as each tape builds upon the one prior. Vocabulary and phrases from previous tapes are reviewed at varying intervals throughout the course to trigger the memory's alertness and focus. As the title of this review states, this set is most appropriate for travellers. It is also; however, an excellent introduction to the Croatian language for anyone with an interest in the language. The amount of knowlege contained in this course is somewhat limited: I found myself wishing for another few tapes to really 'complete' the course.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazingly effective,
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This review is from: Croatian: Learn to Speak and Understand Croatian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio Cassette)
I have all of the Croatian tapes on the market and none can compare to the Pimsleur tapes. Before getting this series I had despaired of ever learning this language. I was astonished at how quickly I have learned and retained the information presented here. I just returned from my third trip to Croatia. For the first time I was able to get the sense of conversations as well as communicate with some confidence. I only wish there was an intermediate level. The Pimsleur method is a remarkable approach to learning a language. It is the first language series that I have used that really lives up to its hype.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Vrlo Dobro,
By A Customer
This review is from: Croatian: Learn to Speak and Understand Croatian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio Cassette)
The great strength of Pimsleur materials is due to the fact that because they work only on verbal skills, you are actually able to SPEAK and UNDERSTAND the target language when you've finished. This set is designed for the complete beginner, so if you already speak some Croatian it may be too elementary. Nevertheless, it's great for providing survival Croatian.(...) One more thing: I haven't had a chance to use the Croatian here with Bosnians. Whether you see Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian as dialects of one language or as individual languages in their own right is up to you, but the material presented here is probably generic and simple enough to communicate with people from virtually anywhere in the former Yugoslavia. Heh heh... I've already been complemented on my beautiful Serbian!!!
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