But I just do the best I can and keep repeating a lesson until I feel like I'm getting the 80% that they recommend you have before proceeding to the next lesson. As the lessons increased in difficulty, I usually repeat them at least once but a few I've had a harder time with thinking fast enough to answer in the given "space" in the audio dialogue and I can't easily pause the play while driving so I think if I could pause it to give me more time to think, I wouldn't find it as necessary to repeat some lessons. I finished all of the first and second audiobooks really quickly and decided to keep going because it really is easy. I was very pleasantly surprised how fast I could retain information and understand the beginning conversations at the start of each lesson. Then that evening I do the next lesson (some lessons I repeat more than once as I got to more advanced longer phrases). So, I usually do one lesson on my drive home from work, and repeat the same lesson the following morning as that helps me retain the information easier. I found that I can do one lesson during my commute and the reading portion only takes a couple minutes once I arrive at work or home.
The lessons are 30 minutes each and there is a PDF download you can find in your library for the reading portion. So, when the Pimsleur audio courses for Spanish one and two were offered in one of Audible's deals, I decided to give it a go and see how I liked it. However, my company has a Latin America division so Spanish is actually valuable and it's been on my bucket list to learn more than my existing pitiful repertoire which I gleaned from Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer thanks to being a mom. However, I freely admit, I have forgotten everything as one does not stumble upon many opportunities to use French in day-to-day life in the US. Being that I was born and continue to reside in the USA, I cannot offer any reasonable logic for my desire to pursue French over Spanish other than the smaller class sizes and the fun, cool teacher. I made the questionable life decision in high school to focus my foreign language studies on French. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Students can expect to understand the lessons clearly and to be understood by Spanish speakers everywhere. Pimsleur's Spanish programs teach an educated Latin American Spanish, featuring speakers from Colombia and Mexico. Further, it’s one of the six official languages recognized by the United Nations. Spanish is the official language of 19 Latin American nations, as well as Spain, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension and on learning to speak Spanish. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation and new vocabulary and structures. This course includes lessons one through five from the Spanish Level One program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction.