Too Fast
Gary-Falkland
January 3, 2012
oleg-p
January 27, 2012
Alan-R-G
July 6, 2013
khaduj
April 3, 2015
Ph0t0n
May 18, 2016
Has anyone here ever tried the Pimsleur courses? The first two, (especially the second one), made me so angry! The moderator would ask you how to say something and within 0.5 second the Arabic speaker would blurt it out as if he thought he was the one being quizzed! I was cussing that guy and Paul Pimsleur out all the constantly! For the third one (Arabic III), they finally got it right and the guy paused enough for the student to answer and it was sooooooo nice!
One thing I liked about Pimsleur is that they did lots of repetitive quizzing on variations of sentences, which was great for committing things to memory. Rocket Arabic doesn't do that very well so you end up listening to each lesson several times. It's not so bad, but listening to the moderator explain some culture tidbit in English for the 4th time isn't the most efficient use of our time.
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