Excellent for the Car - but be careful!

After a trip to Cuba I thought I would give Spanish a go. I got this set and LOVE it. I really was putting sentences together and speaking with a couple of friends in the office who have varying degrees of Spanish. The course so far is great and for someone like me who thought language learning was for the gifted, I have been surprised. I will go onto Spanish 2 and 3 and see how much I can speak. We have the Spanish embassy 5 minutes form my office, so I will give it a try at their parties. Loving Pimsleur - already thinking, after doing all the Pimsleur course it says you are at High Intermediate level...I wonder how to get to advanced? For anyone who is curious if this system works - it truly does. Just be careful while driving, that's when I do it- it is hard to truly concentrate.

Very good commute time saver

I learned so much with this. I have the CD version because I like to be able to just hit back and quickly jump around if I miss something or just want to review part of a lesson. I'd be careful buying online though unless you buy directly from Amazon or buy from a brick-and-mortar reseller. There are a LOT of fly by night Pimsleur resellers with flashy websites and they don't even have a real store! If you look around, I found one place that even buys the Pimsleur back when you're done with it for $120!!! Just go to search engine and search for "Pimsleur". The place I bought from sent me the newest edition new, and I'm gonna sell it back to them. When all's said and done it will only have costed me $39 for the COMPREHENSIVE 30 lesson CD set! I'm so psyched. And it seems a lot of the dealers are copying that $120 place because you can also get vouchers back from some other sellers worth $100 (not cash, just a coupon but good if you want to go on to next level of Pimsleur).

Viva Pimsleur!

Pimsleur and a movie please

I've used Pimsleur for German, Russian, and now Spanish and I find it is the best "audio only" system out there. I do get a little board at times but it's really a great conversational builder. I'm a real polyglot and have yet to find a better system.

There's a good article on learning languages at khuro5hin.org
Just google "how to learn a language"

The author recommends Pimsleur in conjunction with flash cards and some other methods.