Language Update

I finished Pimsleur Italian II several weeks ago and picked up German III. I've been covering 4 lessons a day, since the German lessons are closer to 25 minutes each, and I can squeeze in two lessons on each leg of my commute to and from work.

In contrast to the Italian lessons, I'm not (often) rewinding or feeling the need to repeat these German lessons, since I took two years of German as part of my college education in the late '80s. These lessons are not introducing too many unfamiliar words or grammatical constructs.

This evening I finished lesson 24.

I've been using the German III 2nd Edition CDs borrowed from the Montgomery County Library system. However, if you can get the revised, Euro edition, I believe it will be better. This particular edition has not had the excellent audio quality of the others I've used.

What I'd really like to get is the Audiofy Bookchip version of the Pimsleur courses. Part of it, of course, is the niftiness of carrying 16 CDs worth of audio around on a tiny memory card. The other thing that appeals to me is getting a single edition across all three courses: Although the courses obviously build on each other, I sometimes feel that the older editions may assume slightly different vocabulary than I learned in the German I and II Euro edition courses I used earlier.

But these are minor nits: I'm delighted with the way I'm learning and remembering with the Pimsleur method.