#Pimsleur spanish i unit 04 how to
I think all this is based on personal experience and I guess that means there isnt right or wrong way to it because many have tried it differenntly and succeded.Ībove I said I was on 100% but I remembered on lesson 22 or 23, i was asked how to say excuse me. IMHO, Pimsleur should be done quickly, before you move on to proper learning materials You have to understand that finishing the entire Pimsleur Mandarin course will land you somewhere in the absolute, total, complete beginner territory, with a command of about 30 words. On topic, I don't know what the best way to approach Pimsleur is, I only seem to remember the recommended approach by the makers of Pimsleur. Often, moving on will keep you motivated, while staying at the same spot will make you frustrated, which can also affect memorisation. By moving on, you will often find that if you revisit a lesson a few weeks later, you'll remember the tricky words much easier than if you'd insisted on learning them in the beginning. I'm just saying that the way the brain learns is sometimes very illogical, and we must accept that we won't remember everything, and that some things will bother us for a long time. Very often, moving on to new material will be much more efficient, because the tricky word will show up in a number of different context later, which will make it easier to learn than if you sit down and insist on memorising it right there and then. I've made the experience (especially when learning characters and vocabulary) that some things stick much easier than other things, and that it is wrong to try to force them to be learned at the same time and at the same pace. Similarly, if you achieve an 80% retention rate, this doesn't mean that you'll never learn the remaining 20%. If you achieve 99% retention on a lesson, this doesn't mean that you'll still have this 99% retention rate half a year later. There is no harm going through a whole unit on 80% but if after you finish and earlier lessons are still at 80% will that be progress? only the harder way!ĭo the best you can and dont let me/us slow you down. I was on a 100%, though in later lessons some were harder than others. When I was taking a two hrs a week class and on pimsleur, my pronunciation and grammar was far far superior than that of my class mates, the grammar especially came and felt natural thankx to pimsleur. There is no harm going through a whole unit on 80% but if after you finish and earlier lessons are still at 80% will that be progress? I guess its down to the individual and the pace of learning. I do see the point of Renzhe about the way it was intended but Khotan pointed it out clearly when he said an absolute beginner might not be familiar with all words.Īgain wasnt it intented for beginners? Yes it seems so but the little background you come to it with, the faster you pick up. I guess my 90% statement that Renzhe raised was answered by Neil, there is no harm in trying to nail it. A more leisurely approach might prevent burnout, and thus be more productive in the end. The "one lesson a day" approach over the whole 90 lessons is in fact pretty ambitious, especially for a true beginner, and it's possible to burn out. As long as you're moving forward, whether slowly or quickly, you're learning successfully. I also think it's important to keep in mind that YOU'RE running the show you aren't in a race with anyone else, and if you decide to move at a slower pace by, say, doing every lesson twice (or even more frequently, if you like), who's to say you're doing it wrong? Pimsleur just provided you the materials, for you to use in a way that you think makes the best sense for your own needs. Based on my experience with Pimsleur in a couple of different languages, I would say this: While there's certainly no harm in repeating a lesson, especially if you feel that you don't have a very good handle on the material in that lesson, there's SO much repetition built into the Pimsleur courses that, if you have gotten 80 percent or so of the answers right, you can probably move ahead in confidence that there'll still be plenty of going over the materials you weren't so sure of, and thus an opportunity to reinforce some of the items on which you may feel a bit shaky.
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