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December 5, 2005 0743550544 978-0743550543
Compact Croatian, a stand-alone 10-lesson (5 hours) program, teaches beginning language strategies for essential communication and traveling needs.

HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT®

What is the Pimsleur® difference?

The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Croatian structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Croatian can actually be enjoyable and rewarding.

The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or even thousands of words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts.

When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That same learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one integrated piece so you can succeed.

With Pimsleur you get:

Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation,

Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically,

The flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere,

30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting.

Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without books, written exercises, or drills.


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About the Author

Dr. Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of the world's leading experts in applied linguistics. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and Phonemics, and supervised the language laboratory at UCLA. He went on to become Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center at Ohio State University; Professor of Education and Romance Languages at the State University of New York at Albany; and a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Pimsleur was a member of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). His many books and articles revolutionized theories of language learning and teaching. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed a new method that is based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory that he called Graduated Interval Recall. This program incorporates both of these principles to provide you with the most simple and effective learning method possible.

Product Details

  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Pimsleur (December 5, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743550544
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743550543
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 2.1 x 8.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #305,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pimsleur ,Learning to Speak Croatian, March 15, 2007
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This review is from: Pimsleur Croatian: Learn to Speak and Understand Croatian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio CD)
I find the teaching format very convincing in theory and in application. The regular reinforcement of material already covered is very supportive of remembering what you've learned. The voice quality of the narrator and the two Croatian speakers is very clear and pleasing in quality,and the pauses needed between verbal entries needed for the learner to absorbe and repeat the stimulus words and phrases are just about right. The speakers are excellent in pronouncing words and syllables clearly and repeatedly so that proper linguistic inflections are practiced and remembered.

What I find missing and I know would help me a lot is a printed transcript of the CD oral content. This would allow the learner to study what has been covered when it is inconvenient to play the CD as well as to see how the words and phrases look and are spelled. I believe very strongly in multisensory learning,which is not provided with this program.

I also wish the CD allowed me to skip back to phrases that require more repetition than some others without jumping all the way back to the beginning of the lesson.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best way to begin learning, June 12, 2007
This review is from: Pimsleur Croatian: Learn to Speak and Understand Croatian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Audio CD)
I've just begun using this guide to learn Croatian. My family speaks a heavy Istrian dialect and the "pure" language sounds almost nothing like it, so I am starting from scratch. The lessons start off at a very basic level, and gradually build up by adding a new word or phrase. Then, it will take you back to previous lessons to refresh your memory, while incorporating them into new lessons (essentially, none of the older lessons that are taught will be forgotten). The instructors' pronunciation is very clear and easy to imitate, as they sound out the syllables of each word. The narrator occasionally includes a fact about sentence structure that is helpful.

Despite the fact that this really should have included a guide so that we could learn the written part, it is definitely a great place to begin learning this very difficult language. I also hope the company will release additional volumes, since it is extremely hard to find Croatian language lessons out there.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great starter kit, July 7, 2006
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This is the best way to learn a language from the beginning. This method allows you to retain the most info. The only bad thing is that its only 10 lessons. This isn't a popular language so they didn't come out with a volumn 2.
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