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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6150 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 2 25 July 2012 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
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I'm not a big fan of the Pimsleur method as it tends to move too slow, with limited vocabulary and little grammar explanation. However, one thing they do exceptionally well is pronunciation. I think Pimsleur has some of the clearest audio I've ever heard. I'm wondering how many Pimsleur lessons would it take to cover all the possible sounds (phonemes) in a language. Do you think it would take ten, thirty or the full ninety lessons ?
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 2 25 July 2012 at 1:23pm | IP Logged |
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It probably depends on what words they introduce. The phonemes aren't the only thing that matters anyway, I hope you've seen LaughingChimp's posts.
In practical terms, if you want to do Pimsleur for pronunciation, I think the only way is to just start and keep doing them till you feel confident enough about your pronunciation. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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