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Summary: Basic Greek in TWO WEEKS
Review: I am in the military and I have orders to Souda Bay, Greece in September, 2000. I have never gone overseas before and I wanted to know as much about the region as possible. My investment into Pimsleur's Modern Greek has allowed me to get a good feel for the Greek language. The program was easy listening and learning for the beginner who has had no foreign language experience. I listened to the tapes for two weeks and had many of the basic phrases a visitor would need to feel comfortable in Greece. While I was competent from a beginners standpoint I was anxious to follow-up with more advanced learning. A continued investment is required into learning Greek, but if you find value in learning the language it is worth it.
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Summary: Basic Greek in TWO WEEKS
Review: I am in the military and I have orders to Souda Bay, Greece in September, 2000. I have never gone overseas before and I wanted to know as much about the region as possible. My investment into Pimsleur's Modern Greek has allowed me to get a good feel for the Greek language. The program was easy listening and learning for the beginner who has had no foreign language experience. I listened to the tapes for two weeks and had many of the basic phrases a visitor would need to feel comfortable in Greece. While I was competent from a beginners standpoint I was anxious to follow-up with more advanced learning. A continued investment is required into learning Greek, but if you find value in learning the language it is worth it.
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Summary: Great Learning!
Review: I have learnt more Greek and better pronunciation from these tapes with minimal effort and time (playing them in the car on long boring trips) than three months of hard study with the BBC Greek Language and People course. Pimsleurs method of timed repetition means that you are constantly reaching back to previously aquired vocabulary then adding on to it. You dont seem to be learning a lot at first, but it builds up into every possible combination of a small vocabulary, and what you learn stays! His theory was that one learns a languge by speaking first, as we learnt our first language as a child. Most people's needs are to speak fist - reading and writing can come later. Pimsler places an emphasis on "doing" and "linking" words: ie. verbs, adverbs, articles and pronouns; and hardly teaches you any nouns at all. I find this is a strength not a weakness. Rather than using up (limited) memory space on long vocabulary lists, you learn to make sentances and express a variety of meanings from a few useful words. I tend to pick up nouns from conversation, people and travelling. My Greek-Australian partner and his parents are happy to point out the names of things, but they have no patience with the finer points of grammer.
The only criticism of the course is (see the previous reviewer's comments) that the converstaions are heavilly slanted towards the male voice trying to convince the female voice to go out with him. Get Liberated, Paul Pimsleur! Women are just as capable of saying "Tha Thelate ne piete kati spiti mu?" if they choose!
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Summary: Great Learning!
Review: The great advantage to this system are that it's well-organized into 8 30-minute lessons, and it's all audio so you really can learn in your car. By continual repetition, the phrases get ingrained into your very system, and the words will always be there for you. One funny thing about these Pimsleur systems - they assume you are a man and the first thing you want to learn is how to hit on a woman (Miss, where would you like to have a drink? My place or yours?) Don't buy this if you want a comprehensive review of a lot of Greek vocabulary, grammar, or spelling, but definitely buy it if you want to feel like you can speak the language naturally.
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Summary: Highly Recommended to learn Speaking
Review: The great advantage to this system are that it's well-organized into 8 30-minute lessons, and it's all audio so you really can learn in your car. By continual repetition, the phrases get ingrained into your very system, and the words will always be there for you. One funny thing about these Pimsleur systems - they assume you are a man and the first thing you want to learn is how to hit on a woman (Miss, where would you like to have a drink? My place or yours?) Don't buy this if you want a comprehensive review of a lot of Greek vocabulary, grammar, or spelling, but definitely buy it if you want to feel like you can speak the language naturally.
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