Conversational Greek (Modern): Learn to Speak and Understand Greek with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)

Conversational Greek (Modern): Learn to Speak and Understand Greek with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)
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Conversational Greek (Modern): Learn to Speak and Understand Greek with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)
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Author: Pimsleur
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Audiobook
Published: 2005-12-26
ISBN: 074355051X
Publisher: Pimsleur
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Book Reviews of Conversational Greek (Modern): Learn to Speak and Understand Greek with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)

Book Review: Great so far
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought this because I'm a 32 year old half-Greek who never learned as a child, and I'm trying to amend that. Based on the comments online, I picked this up after getting the Oxford "Taking off in Greek" from the local library.

I am 8 lessons in, and so far I am really pleased with this product. I listen during my commute home from work, and it is doing a good job of pacing me through the lessons. You need to have some discipline in repeating the lessons until you have almost mastered them, but when you're not ready yet, you'll know.

I'm a bit left-brained, so I would appreciate more cues in the grammatical details. For instance, you have to figure out that some "words" are actually two words together. For example, the word "nafao" is actually "na fao", (the infinitive "to eat" in the first person). You don't learn this until two lessons after you learn "nafao" when you learn to use "na kano" (to do), and you know this because you learned the verb "kano" earlier. I assume that this is part of the Pimsleur technique, and is only a minor point.

There is a focus on learning and hearing fast pronounciation, which is probably key to comprehension, and it feels good to be able to follow along with the example conversations.

Hopefully I'll make it all the way through and then continue with the Modern Greek. The box that this came in says that you get a rebate toward purchase of Modern Greek I, which is great, since MG1 is way more than the 35 bucks I paid for this.

Summary of Conversational Greek (Modern): Learn to Speak and Understand Greek with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)

This Conversational program contains 8 hours of interactive audio-only instruction, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.

HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT?

What is the Pimsleur? difference?

The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Greek (Modern) structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Greek (Modern) can actually be enjoyable and rewarding.

The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only these pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or thousands words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts.

When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one integrated piece so you can succeed.

With Pimsleur you get:

  • Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation,
  • Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically,
  • The flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere,
  • 30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting.

Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without textbooks, written exercises, or drills.

Conversational Greek (Modern) includes the 10 lessons from Pimsleur's Basic Greek (Modern) plus an additional 6 lessons.

The 16 lessons in Conversational Greek (Modern) are the same first 16 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive Greek (Modern) Level 1.

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