Pimsleur Italian Level 1 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak and Understand Italian with Pimsleur Language Programs

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Surprise your friends! Astonish your family! With Pimsleur, you'll be speaking and understanding like a native in no time. Thirty minutes a day is all it takes. Italian Level 1 Lessons 6-10builds on material taught in prior units. 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. Each lesson contains practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension and on learning to speak Italian. Reading lessons begin in Lesson 9 and provide you with an introduction to reading Italian. These lessons are designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent. A reading booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format.

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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Critic reviews

"Pimsleur programs provide plenty of positive reinforcement that will keep learners on track, and we found that Pimsleur gave us more proficiency and confidence in speaking the new language than any of the other language programs we reviewed." ( AudioFile magazine)

Like better than Babel

The biggest hurdle for me is being able to respond in Italian. This course gives it to you in English and you answer in Italian which, in my opinion, does more to train you to think in Italian rather than translating in your mind. That is the dreaded freeze while you're trying to answer. However, they speak a normal fast Italian and without pausing and downright slowing the speed when you need to it can get really frustrating. I tried Babel first and I like this better. Babel is a memory game and really not a bad second language tool but cannot be used in the car or while exercising, etc. Pimsleur provides no visuals whatsoever which I find a bit of drawback as it would be nice to see some of the dialogue and that's where Babel has the advantage. I like the printed conversation drill in Babel and also being able - once again - to listen to fast talking Italians but able to read along while they do.

Great

Best way to learn a language easy clear concise understandable enjoyable application simple and fun

this method works very well.

it works. i also recommendd reading fluent forever tonunderstand the SRS system. good pace. good pronunciations. not boring.

Extraordinary, entertaining and effective method, but dialogues need updating

I’m used to more traditional language learning methods, so Pimsleur was a big revelation for me. You just have to go with the flow of the audio, without apps, textbooks (except a booklet) or notes. I recommend to follow the course as if you were practicing for a play: don’t just repeat the words and sentences, but also imagine that you are in a real situation.
Caveat: My mother tongue is Spanish, so Italian is more obvious and easy for me.
I gave four stars because the dialogues should be updated for modern times. The difference between “signora” and “signorina” is problematic from the perspective of equality of gender. Also, one entire lesson is about a man harassing a woman who just don’t want to go out with him.

Great learning tool

I never get bored with this program. I've learned and retained more with this program than any other. I actually WANT TO KEEP GOING!

Need to rewrite script for lesson 9

Very helpful with lots of repetition. My only complaint is lesson 9, which sounds like an awkward date rape scene.

Good conversational exposure

If I were a man looking to pick up an Italian woman and feed her lots of wine at the hotel I'd be all set!
Kidding aside, I like the form of this series for learning a language. It allows me to pick up the language easily and almost involuntarily with the constant re-introduction of lessons prior.
I'm only on the second lesson so I can't comment on how fluent I'll be once I've finished.
I definitely recommend.

Looking forward to Milan in April 2019

Feeling confident in the understanding and pronounciation of many words, phrases and iterations. This will help with business and tourist interactions.

Very Nice

Very easy to follow the lessons. Very well the best language learning book ever. I plan to visit Italy very soon this book has broaden my language capabilities. Recommend it to those traveling or simple if you are interested in learning a new language.

If you're looking for the reading material...

Any additional comments?

I was confused about where to find the reading material that is referenced in these lessons, so I thought others might be, too. Here are the instructions from Audible to find them:

"You will be able to find the accompanying material 'PDF' link underneath the book title in the 'Library' section of the website. Please click on the following link to access the 'Library' section: http://www.audible.com/lib "

Hope that helps someone!