#EBAY PIMSLEUR GERMAN PORTABLE#

By the end of the program, you'll be speaking at a mid-intermediate level with near-native pronunciation, and you'll be comfortable meeting most social demands and limited job requirements. You'll explore sports and leisure activities, manage changing money and banking, and discuss travel plans. You'll be able to ask for assistance in many situations and to ask for directions to various locations. You'll learn to express yourself with relative structures - faster, slower, etc. In the final 10 lessons you'll double your vocabulary and have several hundred structures to draw upon. You'll be discussing business and social activities, expressing your interests, and talking about the weather. The next 10 lessons will allow you to further combine and build upon known elements, and produce longer and more complex sentences. As you progress, your fluency will increase as your vocabulary expands. Soon you'll take part in conversations about ordering meals, shopping, and local tourist attractions. Structures become more complex and informal speech is introduced. In the first 10 lessons you'll begin using the past tense. What's Included? - 30, 30-minute audio lessons - 60 minutes of reading instruction to provide you practice reading German - in total, 16 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers - a Reading Booklet and User's Guide What You'll Learn Builds upon skills taught in Pimsleur's German Level 1. Works for everyone - Recommended for ages 13 and above. Genius - Triggers your brain's natural aptitude to learn. Cost-effective - Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.

Based in Science - Developed using proven research on memory and learning. Self-Paced - Go fast or go slow - it's up to you. Proven Method - Works when other methods fail.

#EBAY PIMSLEUR GERMAN PORTABLE#

Portable + Flexible - Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life. Why Pimsleur? - Quick + Easy - Only 30 minutes a day. If you've tried other language learning methods but found they simply didn't stick, then you owe it to yourself to give Pimsleur a try.

Pimsleur courses use a scientifically-proven method that puts you in control of your learning. Thirty minutes a day is all it takes, and we get you speaking right from the first day. The best part is that it doesn't have to be difficult or take years to master.

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn German 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, learning German will expand your horizons and immeasurably enrich your life.

So I felt as though I was repeatedly requesting 'the beer' instead of 'a beer' (which is just plain strange, since it kind of suggests there is only one beer left on the planet, or at least in the bar where the beer is being requested).Д«ut don't take my word about Swiss German. In Swiss German 'a beer' is es Bier, which sounds a lot like das Bier, especially when one is talking fast.

In standard German,'a beer' is ein Bier, and 'the beer' is das Bier. One more weird thing is the singular neuter indefinite article. Instead of ist-standard German for 'is'-you say isch. ДЇurther muddying and muddling things in my brain was the way the s sounds of standard German frequently popped up as sh sounds in my Swiss German Pimsleur lessons. The merci does not sound at all French, but neither does it, or the other two, sound at all like my previous notion of German. 'Hello' is grГјezi, 'excuse me' is exgГјГјsi (double umlaut!), and 'thank you' is merci. 'Something' is etwas in standard German, but Г¶ppis in these Swiss German lessons. So when I had to say 'I am,' I felt as though I was saying 'eBay.' The bin of standard German-meaning 'am'-sounded maybe halfway between bi and bay. Still, the differences far exceeded my expectations, even in just five hours of studying.ДЇor example: the ich of standard German sounded like ee in Swiss German. Throughout the lessons my vowels were redirected, my consonants stolen, my vocabulary replaced.Дon't get me wrong: there are still lots of similarities between Swiss German and standard German, the latter being what you would normally study in a high school or university German course. I have years of German study behind me, and I had no idea there was a variety of German floating around that sounded so very different. I absolutely do not recommend this approach-you are supposed to do one per day-but I was in a particular mood. Pimsleur, part of Simon & Schuster, offers 10 excellent roughly half-hour audio lessons for Swiss German, and I did all 10 of them in 24 hours.

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