Modern Greek [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Pimsleur (Author), Pimsleur Language Programs (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0671044001 | ISBN-13: 978-0671044008 | Publication Date: December 1, 1999

SPEAK GREEK TO LEARN GREEK

The Pimsleur Method will have you speaking Modern Greek in just a few short, easy-to-use lessons.

Learn at your own pace, comfortably and conveniently.

No books to study. No memorization drills.

LEARN GREEK AS YOU LEARNED ENGLISH

You learned English by listening, and then by speaking. Now listen to learn Greek, and speak to practice what you've learned. Pimsleur Language Programs were developed by renowned language expert, Dr. Paul Pimsleur, to help you learn in the same relaxed, natural way that a native speaker does. The Pimsleur Method is an integrated system which immerses you in the language from the very beginning, building your long-term memory as you hear it, understand it, and use it successfully.

Now you can take advantage of Dr. Pimsleur's research. At the completion of these eight lessons, you will comfortably understand and speak at a beginner level.

Pimsleur Language Programs are available in over thirty languages.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Pimsleur (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671044001
• ISBN-13: 978-0671044008
• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 9.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,721,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > Books on Cassette > Languages > Greek

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended to learn Speaking, August 16, 2000

By 

"topaze15" (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern Greek (Audio Cassette)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Learning!, August 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Modern Greek (Audio Cassette)

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!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Basic Greek in TWO WEEKS, July 30, 2000

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Bradley Kayden (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern Greek (Audio Cassette)

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.