It doesn’t feel like I have learned very much yet but at least I have some idea of what the Greek words sound like. It takes a lot of repetition, true, but the pronunciation part is pretty good.Īs of today, I have done the first 10 of the 30 lessons which amounts to about 5 hours of listening. They have native pronunciation and break up words into parts so that you can see exactly how they are pronounced. Second, it is extremely good in pronunciation.The words do indeed sink into the memory. First, drilled or not, I tend to remember the phrases taught in the lessons very well.To look at the positives, there are at least two ways in which the Pimsleur courses seem to be working pretty well: I believe it could really do a better job in all of these areas. I am also a bit worried about the content of the phrases themselves since they look a bit touristy to me instead of being more of the universal type of phrases.It doesn’t go deep into the structure of the language and gives few grammatical explanations except those on the surface level.It doesn’t seem like it has a very efficient use of time and personally the repetition can bore the hell out of me at times. Some lessons are lacking in the amount of phrases because one focuses on learning a small amount of words or expressions (say 10 or less) per lesson and repeating them over and over.Disregarding the costs, I have mixed opinions about Pimsleur. I will be doing it since I have the course already (generally, Pimsleur costs a lot of money if you buy it new so that is probably not the best idea) and since there is a clear lack of resources for starters (that’s a thing that this website has an ultimate goal of fixing).
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Pimsleur is an absolute beginner course of Greek consisting of 30 audio lessons of 30 minutes each. Anyway, I have now started learning it and I’ll tell you about the progress I have made and my general impressions on the Greek language in this post.įirst of all, I have been lucky enough to get my hands on the Pimsleur Greek course. Technically speaking, this is not exactly true because I have used a couple of days in February to begin learning some but I deliberately missed my first days in March so that evens it out.
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I have officially started learning Greek since March (to make it a nice six month mission).