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Summary: poor quality tapes
Review: Finally, a usable Portugese language program. I live in Brazil about 3 months of every year, and I speak quasi-fluently. I find that this is an excellent refresher course to keep current. I also learned many expressions and constructions that I was previously unaware of their use. I cannot tell you how many audio language instruction programs I have bought. I think I have purchased all of them on Amazon[.com] (for Portuguese, at least), and this is the first one I have found useful. However, unless you have some background, or have listened to Pimsleur I and II, it is NOT for beginners.
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Summary: Ainda o melhor sistema para voce estudar
Review: Finally, a usable Portugese language program. I live in Brazil about 3 months of every year, and I speak quasi-fluently. I find that this is an excellent refresher course to keep current. I also learned many expressions and constructions that I was previously unaware of their use. I cannot tell you how many audio language instruction programs I have bought. I think I have purchased all of them on Amazon[.com] (for Portuguese, at least), and this is the first one I have found useful. However, unless you have some background, or have listened to Pimsleur I and II, it is NOT for beginners.
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Summary: poor quality tapes
Review: I bought this set new, and at least two tapes will not play. I have contacted Pimsleur customer service five times about replacements (as they instruct you to do on their website) and have been ignored every time. A product is worthless if you can't use it.
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Summary: Good but socially biased
Review: I've just finished the 3 bands of Brazilian Portuguese and many other Pimsleur language programs and would like to share a little bit of my opinions. This legendary program has already got thousands of positive confirmations and to a large part I also concur. So here what I want to share is to provide some different views.
Basically the Pimsleur programs assume the listener to be "White American male of managerial stage, who has married and have couple of children" In almost every language Pimsleur offers will begins with an instruction like "Imagine an american man wants to strike up a conversation with a xxx women" and the xxx could be replaced by either Polish or Vietnamese or whatever. This presumption would somehow be balanced while you progress through the program by introducing the women subject scenario, but you will still discover from time to time that all the social contacts the Pimsleur program teaches you would confined into only top class of a society. Your wife / husband will be either a diplomat or bank manager, your son works in a multinational corporation and your daughter studies in University in Chicago (of course there are lots of Universities in Chicago). What most impressed me is that all the Brazilian partners in Pimsleur only play golf and tennis rather than soccor!!
I think the pricing policy of the publisher has already set that the customer would be rich. So no doubt that the language it provides fits these presumbly customers' need. If you are not a diplomat or multinational CEO who has business trips often, then you probably would find out in the end that the language situations it constructs are so far from your life experience. Nevertheless the Pimsleur still has it value. It trains your listening and pronounciation in a way that I havn't seen so effective in other materials. But I believe it worth about a hundred bucks or so, in stead of nearly thousand in 3 bands totally. I would recommend you to search in second hand market if it is possible.
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Summary: Top Notch Program. No need to look further.
Review: The statement made by the guy from Houston does not make sense. This is a CD program and he says his cassette tape does not work. Hello?!
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Summary: Top Notch Program. No need to look further.
Review: The statement made by the guy from Houston does not make sense. This is a CD program and he says his cassette tape does not work. Hello?!
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