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Pimsleur French Level 5 – Lessons 1-30ISBN: 9781442381834Written by: PimsleurNarrated by: PimsleurLength: 16 hrs and 42 mins – SpeechRelease Date: 09-09-14Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioFormat: MP3 + PDF (62 pages)Quality: Bitrate: 56 kbps /Sample rate: 22.05 KHzLanguage: English, FrenchIncludes 30 lessons and reading instruction (16 hours) as MP3 download, plus a User’s Guide and Reading BookletThe Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn FrenchWhether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, learning French will expand your horizons and immeasurably enrich your life.The best part is that it doesn’t have to be difficult or take years to master. Thirty minutes a day is all it takes, and we get you speaking right from the first day. Pimsleur courses use a scientifically-proven method that puts you in control of your learning. If you’ve tried other language learning methods but found they simply didn’t stick, then you owe it to yourself to give Pimsleur a try.Why Pimsleur?- Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day.- Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.- Proven Method – Works when other methods fail.- Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you.- Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning.- Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.- Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.- Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above.What’s Included?- 30, 30-minute audio lessons- 60 minutes of reading instruction to provide you practice reading French- in total, 16 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers- a Reading Booklet and User’s GuideWhat You’ll LearnFrench Level 5 is designed to be taken after Pimsleur’s French Level 4. Thirty 30-minute lessons totaling 15 hours of spoken French language learning, plus 75 minutes of reading practice. French Level 5 builds upon skills taught in Pimsleur’s French Levels 1-4. You’ll be speaking and understanding French with near fluency and with a broad range of conversational skills. In Level 5 the pace and conversation moves quite rapidly, accelerating exposure to new vocabulary and structures, approaching native speed and comprehension. You’ll learn to speak more in-depth about your personal life and emotional state, and be able to create complex sentences using a mix of tenses and moods.A few of the topics included in French Level 5:- Travel and leisure: weather phenomena, geography, temperatures, the environment;- Home life: real estate, furniture, appliances, clothing and laundry, cleaning, car maintenance, parties and celebrations;- Family and relationships: getting along, planning a future together, breaking up, boyfriends and girlfriends, reconnecting;- Body and health: body parts, pain, symptoms and cures, sleeping and waking, bad habits;- Personal life and emotions: empathy, regret, hope, trust and distrust, sharing, bullying and name-calling, growing older, recognizing and finding happiness.Reading Lessons in the form of a short story are included after Lesson 30.The Pimsleur MethodWe make no secret of what makes this powerful method work so well. Paul Pimsleur spent his career researching and perfecting the precise elements anyone can use to learn a language quickly and easily. Here are a few of his “secrets”:The Principle of AnticipationIn the nanosecond between a cue and your response, your brain has to work to come up with the right word. Having to do this boosts retention, and cements the word in your mind.Core VocabularyWords, phrases, and sentences are selected for their usefulness in everyday conversation. We don’t overwhelm you with too much, but steadily increase your ability with every lesson.Graduated Interval RecallReminders of new words and structures come up at the exact interval for maximum retention and storage into your long-term memory.Organic LearningYou work on multiple aspects of the language simultaneously. We integrate grammar, vocabulary, rhythm, melody, and intonation into every lesson, which allows you to experience the language as a living, expressive form of human culture.Learning in ContextResearch has shown that learning new words in context dramatically accelerates your ability to remember. Every scene in every Pimsleur lesson is set inside a conversation between two people. There are no drills, and no memorization necessary for success.Active ParticipationThe Pimsleur Method + active learner participation = success. This method works with every language and every learner who follows it. You gain the power to recall and use what you know, and to add new words easily, exactly as you do in English.The French LanguageFrench is spoken by 55 million speakers in France, 3 million in Belgium, 1.5 million in Switzerland, 6.5 million in Canada, and 5 million in former French and Belgian colonies. It is an official language in 44 countries and an official language of the United Nations. An estimated 50 million people around the world speak French as a second language.- Publisher’s Summary -French is an official language in 44 countries. It is spoken by 55 million people in France, 3 million in Belgium, 1.5 million in Switzerland, 6.5 million in Canada, and 5 million in former French and Belgian colonies. It is also an official language of the U.N.Pimsleur French Level 5 is a new 30-lesson course designed to be taken after Pimsleur’s French Level 4. Thirty 30-minute lessons totaling 15 hours of spoken French language learning – plus 75 minutes of reading practice, reading, and hearing a short story – allow you to read French for pleasure. Builds upon skills taught in Pimsleur’s French Levels 1-4. You’ll be speaking and understanding French with near fluency and with a broad range of conversational skills.In Level 5 the pace and conversation moves quite rapidly, accelerating exposure to new vocabulary and structures, approaching native speed and comprehension. You’ll learn to speak more in-depth about your personal life and emotional state, and be able to create complex sentences using a mix of tenses and moods.A few of the topics included in French Level 5:Travel and leisure: weather phenomena, geography, temperatures, the environmentHome life: real estate, furniture, appliances, clothing and laundry, cleaning, car maintenance, parties and celebrationsFamily and relationships: getting along, planning a future together, breaking up, boyfriends and girlfriends, reconnectingBody and health: body parts, pain, symptoms and cures, sleeping and waking, bad habitsPersonal life and emotions: empathy, regret, hope, trust and distrust, sharing, bullying and name-calling, growing older, recognizing and finding happiness.The Reading Booklet to be used with the audio Reading Lessons and the User’s Guide are combined in a single PDF and included in this course. The User’s Guide is also in the audio.