[lojban-beginners] Re: podcast (pimsleur method)

[John Leuner <jewel@pixie.co.za>]

I read about the Pimsleur method a couple of weeks ago. The main point
of Pimsleur material is that is carefully constructed using "Graduated
Interval Recall". I searched the web for any papers or research about
this model of memory retention but I only found hundreds of sites
flogging Pimsleur language sets.

Does anyone know more about this theory or have a link to some research?

John Leuner

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 21:30, Christopher Zervic wrote:
> I actually posess the entire Spanish Pimsleur series lessons 1-90. You
> can probably find this or one of the other ones at Your Local Public
> Library™. 
> 
> Pimsleur uses three voices, a native man, a native woman and a
> narrator. Having the man and woman are somewhat necessary to
> straighten out gender issues. The principles are anticipation and
> repitition, each lesson introduces circa 10 new concepts, and hammers
> them home. There is also a reading section (which for a language
> posessing perfect orthographic mapping would be hardly necessary).
> 
> A typical script would be something in he beginning would be
> 
> Narrator: Let's say you meet a woman on the street. Say "Excuse me."
> Listen and repeat.
> Man: Perdón. (Pause) dón. (Pause) dón. (Pause) dón. (Pause) Perdón.
> (Pause) Perdón.
> Narrator: Say "Excuse me" 
> Man: Perdón. (Pause) Perdón. 
> Narrator: Ask her if she speaks English. Listen and repeat.
> Man: ¿Habla Inglés? (Pause) ¿Habla Inglés?
> Narrator: Do you speak English?
> Man: ¿Habla Inglés? (Pause) glés (Pause) glés (Pause) Inglés (Pause)
> Inglés. 
> Narrator: Do you speak English?
> Man: ¿Habla Inglés?
> 
> Little by little they introduce more phrases and each time  Later on,
> it might sound like this:
> Narrator: Have you seen Maria?
> Man: Escucha y repita: ¿He visto María?  (Pause) visto (Pause) He
> visto 
> Narrator: Have you seen Maria?
> Man: ¿He visto María?
> 
> and on and on...
> 
> I don't know how well this would work with jbo, because Lojban as a
> spoken language appears to be still a shade or two underripe.
> 
> 
> On 9/16/05, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
>         On 9/15/05, jm <jeffm@ghostgun.com> wrote:
>                 Beginners guide. Ever heard the Pimsluer foreign
>                 language courses?
>                 Something like that may be suitable. Although a single
>                 lesson tends to
>                 run about half an hour in length.
>         
>         I'm very interested in the Pimsleur method but I have no idea
>         what it's like. Do you have such a recording? Can you point me
>         to another podcast that uses this technique? Or can you
>         describe it?
>         -epkat
>         
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Zervic, Esq.