German Pimsleur Self Evaluation: Review and Comprehension | Learning German | Michel Thomas
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2020
- How far can you go in Pimsleur?
I attempt to self evaluate my comprehension by doing an unedited and spontaneous review in German of the Pimsleur and Michel Thomas language learning programs. Feel free to correct my German in the comments.
I have no formal German education in the schools. Pimsleur, along with some dictionaries, kids novels, and grammar books, has been my primary source.
I have found Pimsleur and Michel Thomas to be very useful language-learning tools. I enjoy how I can learn on the go, especially in the car.
This video demonstrates a few minutes of spoken German. I am sure I made some mistakes. But language learning is about making mistakes. That's how we learn!
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Hallo Jeffrey. Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache und ich bin wirklich beeindruckt wie viel du mit dem Pimsleur Kurs gelernt hast. Ich habe mit Duolingo angefangen Hochchinesisch zu lernen und werde jetzt mit dem Pimsleur Kurs weitermachen. Vielen Dank für die Videos. :)
Danke! Ich habe einen Mandarinchinesich Pimsleur Kurs gemacht, und es war sehr hilfreich.
Thanks for sharing. Ive been learning German for three months and I've finished Michael Thomas and am on Volume 3 of Pimsleur... I'm using Assimil and other resources as well. This inspires to me to make a video too. ha
Excellent. Keep plugging away! You will definitely notice improvement if you stick to Pimsleur, Michel Thomas, and Assimil. Fifteen minutes a day will add up in a year.
Thanks for demonstrating Jeff! I can't imagine how much of a specific language one learns when going through all 5 levels of a Pimsleur course (150 lessons total), since I only went through 3 levels of Russian and Chinese, back when levels 4 & 5 were not available in either language. I'll soon find out when my Pimsleur Russian Level 4 arrives...
Don't know when or if I'll ever get back to my German Pimsleur cassettes (Levels 1 to 3). The only country where I found knowing German useful so far was in Hungary, where it is a 2nd language (and English speakers are scarce compared to Germany and probably Austria). Might be useful in Romania as well...
I like to travel internationally, so I need to know how to function in countries where English is not widely known/spoken.
Thanks for watching! I find all levels equally useful, as they each add new situations, sentences, and vocabulary. Levels 4 & 5 really go into more intensive conversational topics such as discussing current events. It also gets into more subjunctive usages ("would have been" and "could have gone") which is very helpful.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian Thanks Jeff! Looking forward to getting to know Russian at a more conversational level.
Actually, German (as well as English) is the most widely known 2nd or 3rd language in all of Central and Eastern Europe (many people from there go to Germany or have been there for work), so it would be useful for me to get back into it. Russian is probably 3rd - many older people studied it in school as a second language in the Cold War era. Some of the younger people there choose to study it today, along with English.
This is lovely. How many months' progress is this please and what's your study routine like?
Thanks! I go at turtle speed. I do Pimsleur in the car, and I usually do each lesson 3 or even 4 times to really get it down. So it can take almost a whole season to get through a 30 lesson unit of Pimsleur. I have completed all 5 levels of German Pimsleur, so over a year of car listening time, but when you factor in breaks (I take time off halfway through a course and after a course), more like 2 years.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian Sehr danke. I'm actually almost through with my A1, but I want to be proficient enough to sit for language test at B1level by January 2021, that's why I'm looking for a program that could accelerate my learning. But Pimsleur is more of sprechen und hören, but i wanna be gud in lesen und schreiben too.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian And please, What level might I be on if I use pimsleur for my learning? Thanks alot
Barron's 501 German Verbs is very helpful for learning verb forms. German past tenses, as you know, are challenging, but I review one verb a day, and the patterns become more concrete. I spent a whole year getting the passive perfect down: Ich bin geschlagen worden ("I have been struck" as opposed to "I have struck; Ich habe geschlagen"). I also found reading genre fiction helpful. I read 6 Goosebumps books (RL Stine) auf Deutsch, as well as others. Read, read, read, and I also listen to Deutsche Welle in German on RUclips. Read and listen to things that interest you.
I really appreciate your effort and time. Dankeschön
That was perfect and I don't even speak German. ;)
Lmao
Sometimes you pronounce the ch as k.
It kinda sounds like you have a dutch accent. As if you were dutch and for some reason had no clue what german sounds like.(Eventhough you also clearly sound American.) I would say you should put a bit more emphasis on the vowels. Making them pop out a bit more. Imagine you're a nazi 😄
Ofcourse overal it's good. I am just the person who always gives critique.