- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Pimsleur; Abridged edition (Aug 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743525434
- ISBN-13: 978-0743525435
- Product Dimensions: 26.3 x 19.4 x 5.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Product Description
Product Description
Comprehensive Farsi includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary -- 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions -- plus an introduction to reading.
Upon completion of this Level I program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will be able to:
* initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations,
* deal with every day situations -- ask for information, directions, and give basic information about yourself and family,
* communicate basic information on informal topics and participate in casual conversations,
* avoid basic cultural errors and handle minimum courtesy and travel requirements,
* satisfy personal needs and limited social demands,
* establish rapport with strangers in foreign countries,
* begin reading and sounding out items with native-like pronunciation. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
About the Author
Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the world’s leading experts in applied linguistics. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed The Pimsleur Method based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory training that he called “Graduated Interval Recall.” This Method has been applied to the many levels and languages of the Pimsleur Programs.
--This text refers to the
Audio CD
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Yes, Montoo tells right!,
This review is from: Farsi (Audio Cassette)
We are also agree the Montoo's review. It's not a reall good tape. I would like to suggest a very good source for any Persian/Farsi items. Books, Magazines, CD-Roms and... have a look at the iranibook.com You will find there anything that you need!
1.0 out of 5 stars
not worth the money!,
By montoo (Penna) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Farsi (Audio CD)
I hate to say it but this tape set was a gigantic waste of money, granted you do learn some farsi words and sentences and the pronounciation is clear and good and yes you will learn alittle BUT my biggest issue with this set is that it seems like every single tape repeats the same thing on the first tape with what seemed like no new material being taught at all, so essentially for all that money you will learn how to introduce yourself really well and make polite small talk but above and beyond that forget anything relating to life/weather/work/school/family/life or Iran.forget it!
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4.1 out of 5 stars (15 customer reviews) 44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love it, but it's not for everyone!!!,
By Anita Poole - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Farsi (Audio CD)
This set of CDs or tapes will get you started in basic Farsi. The teaching principle is sound linguistically in that it offers ample opportunity to repeat words in different contexts and teaches grammar by example in a transformational setting. However, if what you are looking for is a long list of grammatical constructions and explanations or vocabulary lists, this is not for you. You will learn basic greetings, how to ask for directions, and how to invite someone to go shopping or out to eat, as well as proper forms of address and how to tell time, but that is about the extent of the vocabulary used. However, you will also learn basic verb forms, and how to construct sentences intuitively, and when you learn new words from other sources, it will be easy to use the words in grammatically correct sentences based on what the CD teaches you. This is an excellent starting point, but by no means does it cover all possible grammatical constructions nor provide extensive vocabulary. What it does do is give you an intuitive feel for the structure of the language and the pronunciation of words. Some of my friends are Iranian, and I had managed to pick up a few words by listening to them converse, but after using this program for an hour a day for about 2 weeks, I was able to understand and follow much of their conversation, though I still cannot speak well. I agree that there needs to be either an expansion of what is currently on the program, or an intermediate and advanced course developed.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad, but not enough,
By New Farsi Speaker - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Farsi (Audio CD)
I received this CD to learn farsi so I could speak the language with my potential in-laws. All my my fiance's family is from Iran and I wanted to learn the language so I could speak their native language with them and got this CD hoping it would help me out. While I was not upset with my purchase, I wished that the lessons went further into vacabulary. While the other review here is correct, the pronunciation is very good and you can learn the pronunciation very well here, there is not nearly enough on how to speak the language. I am lucky, that I have my fiance, who is fully fluent in farsi (and her family) to teach me more. If not for that I would have been disappointed with this CD. While this CD is a great start, more would definately been better. The lessons at first moved to slow, and then by lesson 7 and 8 they went to fast, then lesson 9 and 10 were to slow again. A second lesson CD package (like Farsi II) would be nice, but more farsi language in this first CD package would have been better.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pimsleur vs. Rosetta Stone,
By K. Davis "Geek" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Farsi Persian, Comprehensive: Learn to Speak and Understand Farsi Persian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio CD)
I completed this course while concurrently using the Rosetta Stone software, and I'd like to offer a review which compares the two:
PRACTICALITY: Pimsleur wins. You'll learn how to ask for directions, order in a restaurant, make introductions, haggle with a merchant, etc. After a similar amount of time spent using Rosetta, you'll know how to say things like, "These two girls are wearing red dresses and riding bicycles." CONTENT: Rosetta wins. I'm paying $100 to use Rosetta online for three months, compared to $140 for the complete Pimsleur comprehensive course. In the amount of time it took me to complete the Pimsleur course, I've learned much more vocabulary from Rosetta. RETENTION: Pimsleur wins. While this could partly be because it has less content than Rosetta, I feel that the Pimsleur method is still much better for fostering retention. READING: Rosetta wins. Reading is ingrained to every lesson, whereas Pimsleur has audio lessons with a separate small set of reading lessons. OVERALL: Both are great. Pimsleur will get you up to speed fast enough to encourage you to keep learning, while Rosetta probably offers more in-depth training over the long term. They also reenforce each other pretty well. |
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