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Italian, Basic: Learn to Speak and Understand Italian with Pimsleur Language Programs

Customer Reviews:

Just the basics....

By Colleen M. Schneider - January 31, 2008

My husband and I have, in the last few years taken two trips to Europe and though we were only staying for a couple weeks wanted to learn a bit of the language in order to make an effort to at least be able to say the polite phrases and to understand the basics. I was not looking for a comprehensive program, nor was I looking to continue on to a more challenging program.

This set was recommended by my sister who has a degree in Language and has learned and speaks several languages fluently. She advised me that Pimsleur was one of the best programs on the market for what I was looking for, and she was right.

I have found that any effort that I have made to speak the language (no matter how horribly mangled-it appears that it is all about the sincere effort) has been met with appreciation and has often resulted in a more friendly and pleasurably stay. I'm NOT fluent, nor am I a quick study. I used polite/useful phrases from the series frequently in my travels... read more

You can learn what Pimsleur Method is.

By T. Inui "TuscanyWine" - May 23, 2006

My purpose of learning Italian conversation is to visit Tuscany villages alone for enjoying slow life there and to acquire the ability to communicate hopefully fluently with the people there.

I actually tried to find out appropriate ways to learn Italian on the Net and finally reached the language courses carried by Amazon.com, namely 'Rosetta Stone' and 'Pimsleur'. After reading the reviews for the Pimsleur courses, I decided to go for it.

But the problem was that the Pimsleur's packages seemed at first expensive to me because I only knew the system's features but I've never listened to it.

Thus I decided to purchase this `Basic Italian' because 1. I just wanted to feel the water to find out if this is for me, 2. this program contains first ten lessons that are derived form the `Italian I'.

I got confident and determined to continue to use the `Italian I' even before I finished this Basic Italian and I'm quite satisfied with the Pimsleur's... read more

Mixed feelings

By Larry Nebel - January 9, 2007

The produce is fine and the learning method seems good -- the bad part is it is a bit of a bait and switch product -- you get 10 lessons on 5 disks for a very cheap price (less than $20.00) BUT to go on and learn more you have to buy a very EXPENSIVE follow on course (Like $250 or more). So basically this is a demo that you pay for -- I thought I was buying a course

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