Cheap Pimsleur Language Courses

The challenge in using Pimsleur is in the cost. The retail price at the publisher's website is a whopping $345! Ouch! No doubt the product is worth this, but the cost is prohibitive. The existence of online retailers have however allowed cheap Pimsleur dealers to thrive.

The key to assuring the cheapest Pimsleur price, is to find dealers that provide a Buy Back program which lowers the end cost significantly.

Buy Back programs allow the customer to sell back their sets to the vendor for a specified price. The highest buy back amount is $120, but buy back amounts among various vendors range from $20-$120.

So if cost a major concern, make sure you find a dealer with a Buy Back program and this will help you secure cheap Pimsleur prices.

We understand that learning a new language still has to be economical. The answer is Rent a Pimsleur.

Our Rental Pimsleur program helps reduce the cost of learning a language and enables more people to complete their language goals.

The rental program option is simple; very simple.

1. Select any Comprehensive Pimsleur language course;

2. Pay $49.99 plus $9.95 for shipping.

3. Use it for 40 days and then send it back.

If your interested in using Pimsleur, then check out Pimsleur Rentals at our store.

The Pimsleur Arabic course teaches the following language skills which represent a "Low Intermediate" proficiency on the ACTFL (American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages) spoken language proficiency scale.

Learn how to:

Successfully handle a number of interactive, task-oriented and social situations

Initiate and respond to simple statements

Begin to carry on face-to-face conversation

Ask and answer questions

Introduce yourself

Order a meal

Ask directions

Make purchases

Use new vocabulary to express straightforward needs

If your interested in learning Arabic, then check out Pimsleur Arabic Eastern I Comprehensive CDs at our store.

Will build on your knowledge and brings you up to the "Mid-Intermediate" level on the ACTFL scale. This course will provide the foundation skills for bilingual (spoken language) work requirements.

Learn how to:

Communicate in more complicated situations.

Talk about yourself and family members.

Ask and answer questions and participate in simple conversations on topics beyond the most immediate needs; e.g., personal history and leisure time activities.

Increase the length of your expressions and sentences.

Initiate and create appropriate language forms.

Incorporate proper pronunciation.

Narrate and describe in the past, present and future tenses.

If your interested in learning Chinese, then check out Pimsleur Chinese Mandarin II Comprehensive CDs at our store.

This part of the program will thrust you forward to the "High Intermediate" (the level before "Advanced") on the ACTFL scale. The emphasis turns to more complex self-expression and focuses on expanding conversation skills and more complex language structures.

Learn how to:

Successfully handle most communicative tasks and social situations.

Initiate, sustain, and close a general conversation with a number of strategies appropriate to a range of circumstances and topics with minimal errors.

Carry on connected discourse, particularly for simple narration and/or description.

Satisfy most bilingual work requirements.

Discuss abstract topics.

Handle unfamiliar situations.

Support your opinions and hypothesize.

Satisfy most bilingual (spoken language) work requirements.

If your interested in learning German, then check out Pimsleur German 3 at our store.

By Ron Tichenor

Pimsleur, the language method designed by Dr. Paul Pimsleur and now published by Simon and Schuster, is one of the most sought-after language tools for the independent language learner. It is also known for being quite expensive. If you paid retail price for 3 levels of Pimsleur Comprehensive, it would cost over $1000. But with a few little tricks, you can reduce that cost to you by a significant amount, and still get one of the best language methods.

Shop Around. Pimsleur prices can vary wildly. If you are willing to spend the time, you can probably find a more competitive price. There is no shortage of merchants selling Pimsleur language learning products on the internet.

Buy Used. There are lots of opportunities to buy stuff used. Don't worry that if you are buying used that you are somehow not getting a product that's as good as a new one. As long as it works - that's all you really need.

Libraries. Public libraries often stock many language products. Besides books, they will sometimes have audio, video and software products as well, including Pimsleur. In addition, libraries can sometimes order a requested product from another library or they can purchase it from the publisher. I've heard of a few cases where people could access audio and software products from their home computer.

eBay. If you are comfortable using eBay, then you can easily find Pimsleur products for sale, but the price may vary considerably. You can use eBay to buy new or used Pimsleur products, but be sure you know what you are getting. I've bought Pimsleur products on eBay before without a hitch.

Resell. If you are so inclined, you can sell a product after using it to recoup at least some of your initial cost. You are also helping someone else get a quality Pimsleur product for a better price, so you get some bonus karma points for that!

Borrow or Barter. If you know someone who has the Pimsleur set you are looking for, maybe you can borrow it or trade for it, in part or total. It can save you both money.

Share the Cost. If you can group together with others learning the same language, you can share the cost of Pimsleur. There are other benefits of learning a language with another person such as speaking and practicing with each other, comparing notes and vocabulary etc.

There is little doubt that Pimsleurs conversational approach and focus on pronunciation can be a great benefit to someone learning a language. But it shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to do it. You'd be better off with a private tutor. If you can use one or some of these ideas to help reduce the cost to yourself, you can get the benefits of learning a language with Pimsleur without putting yourself in the poorhouse.

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