You’re not going to get to fluency on these lessons alone.
PIMSLEUR GERMAN TRANSCRIPT DOWNLOAD
But for now, your only option for Danish is audio-only, either via download or via audio CD.Īnother downside to Pimsleur for Danish-language learners is the fact that they only offer Danish 1, which is the first thirty lessons. Access to transcripts is one of the things I really missed in my learning, and I like interactive games and flashcards as well. If it was, I suspect I’d be recommending it. Premium is not available in Danish at this time. This gives you transcripts, games, flash cards, and access to all the lessons, among other things. Pimsleur also offers Pimsleur Premium for some of its languages. The booklet is useless without the lessons to go along with it, which means that they’ve made it pretty easily available without too many concerns about piracy. You’ll get this booklet regardless of the format you purchase in, and it’s also easily accessible on their website. There’s a booklet that goes along with it that gives you the reading exercises used later in the lessons (starting at lesson 11). You can also purchase it on Audible, which is how I got my copy. Most well-known is the audio program, which is available for Danish as a download on their website or via audio CD. It should be noted at this point that there are several Pimsleur programs. I also used different programs for vocabulary acquisition at the same time I used Pimsleur. I feel I learned best when I did the course and then looked up the correct spelling of words I struggled with. In the introduction to the course, Pimsleur states that taking notes or using other resources while using Pimsleur will be detrimental to your process.
I did my best work on Pimsleur when I said, “oh, THAT’s how you pronounce that word!” I did my worst (both understanding and correctly pronouncing) when I had no idea what the structure of the word looked like. In this way, I can begin to reconcile letters and letter combinations with their sounds. I compensate for this by “seeing” the words in my mind as they’re spoken–the actual, written out words flash through my head. I’m a visual learner, to the point that sometimes I hear words entirely incorrectly. This is very difficult for me, and it’s one of the ways I deviated from following the program to the letter (sorry, Pimsleur!). This is how we learn our native language, and Pimsleur believes it’s the best way to learn another language. The gist is that there’s a way to trigger the natural language-learning portion of your brain through listening, speaking, and spaced repetition. Their method is very different from other language learning programs, and there’s a theory behind it that I won’t get too deep into in this review. It’s the one that I took to the most easily, and it’s the one I credit with actually teaching me how the language is spoken. There are several speaking programs that I recommend, but Pimsleur is my program.
If you plan to speak and understand Danish, instead of just reading and writing it, you need to start with a spoken program like Pimsleur as soon as you can.
Because Danish has pronunciations that are so different from English, there’s no way you’re going to learn the language just by reading it. Pimsleur has been an essential tool in learning Danish for me.
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