Pimsleur Language Program German II: 30 German Language Lessons

Pimsleur Comprehensive German #2

by Pimsleur Language Programs, Pimsleur Language Programs (Manufacturer)

Comprehensive German II includes 30 additional lessons (16 hrs.), plus Readings, which build upon the language skills acquired in Level I. Increased spoken and reading language ability.Level II will double your vocabulary and grammatical structures while increasing your spoken proficiency exponentially. Upon completion of a Level II, you will be able to: * engage in fuller conversations involving yourself, your family, daily activities, interests and personal preferences, * combine known elements into increasingly longer sentences and strings of sentences, * create with language and function in informal situations, * deal with concrete topics in the past, present, and future, * meet social demands and limited job requirements, * begin reading for meaning.Note: In order for the Pimsleur Method to work correctly, you must first complete the Level I language program before proceeding to the Level II language program.

Genres: Audiobook

Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Irena Pasvinter · Rating 4 out of 5]

An update, August 2023: relistened to this course yet again, on and off, before a trip to Vienna -- was sincerely surprised to find out that I had listened to it just a year ago.:) If I had been listening to it and the next Pimsleur German courses regularly, a lesson or two a day or so, my German speaking ability would have been much better than the current "Leider spreche ich kein Deutsch" and "Das zimmer hundert-vierzien." Pimsleur works very well, but only if you do your part of the bargain.

In 2022:
I've already listened to this course in 2016, during my first serious bout of learning German. So now is the second time.

As audio courses go, Pimsleur is one of the best. It is based on spaced repetition and on building upon what you've already learned, and aims to teach the listener how to communicate in everyday situations. And Pimsleur's methodology does work -- Pimsleur courses are guaranted to improve your ability to communicate in a foreign lanuage, in my experience.

In my opinion, it's much more effective and less annoying to use Pimsleur after you've already aquainted yourself with basics of the language's grammar, but it is not absolutely neccessary.


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Three things I like most about Pimsleur:

1.It can be used on the go, while driving or taking care of household chores etc. You don't need to consult anything else -- just listen and speak.
2.It doesn't expect you to emulate a parrot by mechanically memorising a miscellanious disconnected bunch of words and phrases.
3.Pimsleur courses are available for lots of languages and often for different levels of language ability -- from beginner to intermidiate and sometimes further. For German there are 5 levels out there, and this is 5x30 half-hour lessons -- that's a lot to listen to.;)

[Korgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's one guy in this who's awful and he gets more lines to read as the lessons progress making it worse as it goes on. Really had to force myself to finish these.

He slurs words together, talks faster than the others, and has a different pronunciation of words than the others. I had to rewind everything he said 3-5 times.

Other than that, it was good.

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

My German really improved with this series.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great refresher so far and format forces better pronunciation- still looking to increase vocabulary with more anchor words. Und Ich muss uben!!

[michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Diese 30 Lektionen helfen mir, das Wort für den Dativ von ‘Sie’ endlich zu lernen.