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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 Ukrainian, 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.
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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.
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2.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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perfect for the busy lifestyle, Feb 22 2009
By K. Ebner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ukrainian, Basic: Learn to Speak and Understand Ukrainian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio CD)
This is the second language I'm learning using this method and I love it. I am a busy woman and I learn my lessons daily while walking the dog, driving to work, etc., so this is perfect for me as I would never have time to sit down and do it. I do think it depends on your personal, preferred learning method that's best for you: Are you visual, auditory or kinesthetic person? For me, this works best. Once I'm done studying all the lessons, I might buy a phrase book to learn the alphabeth.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ukrainian by Pimsleur, Nov 10 2008
By George, M.A. "Jorge" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Ukrainian, Basic: Learn to Speak and Understand Ukrainian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio CD)
There is a lack of materials for learning Ukrainian, so I did buy my first Pimsleur course. The ideal behind this course is that we speak a language first then we learn to read and write it. Well that is true about children who have a good Language Acquisition Devise (LAD) but not adult learners. We basically only remember 20 percent of what we hear. This course is only auditory so do supplement it with some type of book. The lessons are a half hour and I have completed all 10 lessons which are in this basic course. I can say "I want two beers.","What do you want to drink?" but I could say these phrases from previous courses. I prefer a compact course and shorter lessons I don't have to say "yes" and "thank you" a dozen times in a half hour. I do speak Russian, Polish, and Croatian. I grew up speaking these languages. If you are going to the country it is important to be able to read the major signs in the language which this course fails to do. My suggestion is C.D. the spoken part of the lessons and have a CD that will print the spoken lesson that way I will learn 50 percent of the material. I also found the speakers to be very fast which can be very difficult to learning the language-some backward chaining is used -which means learning the last syllable then learning the beginning syllables.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty Good Until the Jump, Mar 20 2009
By William Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ukrainian, Basic: Learn to Speak and Understand Ukrainian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio CD)
The CDs provide a fairly effective means of learning, but I needed to enter the spoken phrases on web translation tools just to be able to see the words.Here's the problem with these lessons... At about the eight minute mark of lesson 5, suddenly you were asked to say, "Wouldn't you like something to eat?" There is a complete disjoint here. Up to this point everything was taught almost syllable by syllable. Then bam, a 20 syllable sentence that I had to figure out on my own. I was lost the rest of the way. I just went back to that CD to find the phrase and work my way through it again. There must be a lesson missing, because they seemed to jump ahead somehow. This omission knocked them down from 4 stars to 2.
The lessons seem to be geared toward someone trying to pick up women. That's probably why most people go there. I need to travel into the remote areas to visit my daughter in the Peace Corps. Still, it's good to be able to recognize what is being said.
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