Pimsleur Spanish Level 5 Lessons 1-5

Learn to Speak and Understand Latin American Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

The easiest and fastest way to learn Spanish

With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Spanish - to understand and be understood - quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action.

Why Pimsleur?

• Quick and easy - only 30 minutes a day.
• Portable and flexible - core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.
• Proven method - works when other methods fail.
• Self-paced - go fast or go slow - it’s up to you.
• Based in science - developed using proven research on memory and learning.
• Cost-effective - less expensive than classes or immersion and features all native speakers.
• Genius - triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.
• Works for everyone - recommended for ages 13 and above.

What’s included?

• Five 30-minute audio lessons, all featuring native speakers

What you’ll learn:

This course includes Lessons One through Five from the Spanish Level 5 program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension and on learning to speak Spanish.

Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn Spanish, expand your horizons, and enrich your life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Very poor communication

A novel idea; how about telling the student that we're working on the following verbs today and their respective conjugations for preterito perfecto and futuro. Then tell the verb and the sentence that's being constructed. With that the orators could pronounce the words clearly, even telling why and when you use words like estoy and soy, and try not to drop back to guttural speech they learned growing up. In these first 5 chapters, you have to incisively ascertain which verb, which tense, and the terrible way they run words up onto the back of the next word, having absolutely no explanation of what words are being said. For example, they might say, hace but it could be asi, and so on. This all puts a damper on clear, concise, sentence building.

On the plus side, my language skills are growing by using these recordings.