Quickly and Effectively Learn Real Thai
Discover how you can learn Thai more effectively with less effort and better results
than any other method by using the proven Pimsleur Learning System. Used by
over 25 million real people throughout the world since 1980, the Pimsleur
learning system is a self-teaching audio program that will give you the skills
and confidence to speak Thai and understand native Thai speakers. Master pronunciation.
Speak fluently.
Tried to learn Thai but have not made as much progress as you hoped for?
Learn Thai Quickly and Effectively without feeling like you are studying it!:
- Easy and natural learning approach with 30
fluency-oriented lessons. Each lesson offers 30 minutes
of full native Thai language immersion.
- Endorsed by the American Council for the Teaching
of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
- Learn just what you need or advance your learning to the level you desire with additional Comprehensive Pimsleur levels.
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Pimsleur Courses and Proficiency Levels
Comprehensive Level I: Intermediate?Low Spoken Proficiency Level
Upon completion of the Pimsleur Comprehensive Level I Program (30 lessons), you will have achieved spoken language communication skills at an Intermediate?Low Level. This level is characterized by the ability to participate in simple, direct conversations on everyday topics, in everyday situations; by being able to satisfy immediate needs, such as ordering food and making simple purchases; and by being able to establish rapport with strangers in a foreign country.
Comprehensive Level II: Intermediate?Mid spoken Proficiency Level:
Upon completion of the Pimsleur Comprehensive Level I and Level II (60 lessons), you will have achieved spoken language communication skills at an Intermediate?Mid Level. This level is characterised by creative ability in the target language and by being able to communicate personal meaning to native speakers by combining and recombining known elements and conversational input to correctly form sentences of increasing length.
Comprehensive Level III: Intermediate?High Spoken Proficiency Level:
Upon completion of the Pimsleur Comprehensive Level I, Level II, and Level III (90 lessons), you will have achieved spoken language communication skills at an Intermediate?High Level. This level is characterized by the ability to obtain, sustain and bring to a close a number of basic communicative exchanges, to satisfy personal needs and social demands, and to survive and cope in the target language and culture. The learner can converse with growing ease and confidence, narrate and describe in terms of past, present and future using connected discourse of considerable conversational length.
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Learn More Thai
in Less Time Than Any Other Method
Several studies have shown that in any language, native speakers use only
around 2,000 to 2,500 distinct words and phrases on a daily basis. Small children
generally learn 2,000 words by age four! The Pimsleur method allows you
to achieve spoken proficiency faster and simpler by teaching the most
important blocks of language learning without bombarding you
with unnecessary, repetitive and boring material. It?s
not how many words you know that defines language proficiency; it?s
which words you can use to communicate naturally with natives. You
will learn more Thai in less time with the Pimsleur learning system
and you will have the confidence and ability to actually use Thai in real-life situations.
Pimsleur Thai will give you an incredible foundation from which you will be able to
effortlessly use additional vocabulary as you learn additional words.
Remember Learning Your First Language?
You probably don't remember it but at age four, you were naturally acquiring ?building blocks? for
your mother language at a rate of about one item every five hours of waking
time exposed to the language. By age six, having spent anywhere from 20,000
to 30,000 hours exposed, you naturally acquired the grammatical
core of your language.
This Pimsleur Thai course will give you the same kind of exposure to Thai,
only you will be learning it at a frequency of almost
one item per minute, nearly 300 times faster.
In essence, you will learn about as much useable language information
in a few hours as a child does in his/her fourth year of life, with measurably
outstanding retention.
Dr. Paul Pimsleur Dedicated His Life to Language Learning Research and Discovery
The Pimsleur Language Learning System is the result of world renowned language
educator Dr. Paul Pimsleur's life research into understanding the language
acquisition process - especially the organic learning of children that speak
a language without knowing its formal structure. For this, he studied the
learning process of groups made of children, adults, and multilingual adults.
His research identified why for so long it has been painstakingly difficult
for adults to learn a second language.
The Two Key Principles Of The Pimsleur Language Learning System
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The Pimsleur system of teaching reintroduces previously
learned material at key intervals. The probability that you will be
able to recall this material is increased with each interval
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Graduated Interval Recall
Graduated Interval Recall is a complex name for a very simple theory about
memory. No aspect of learning a foreign language is more important than
memory, yet before Dr. Pimsleur's work, no one had explored more effective
ways for building language memory. This method reintroduces information
at key intervals during the learning process to effectively maximize retention
until no reminders are needed.
Principle of Anticipation
The Principle of Anticipation works by challenging you, the listener,
to retrieve answers to questions from your own memory. Without interaction
with native speakers, stored information becomes meaningless and therefore
useless. Pimsleur's teaching method simulates direct interaction between
you and a native speaker, immersing you in a meaningful exchange of communication.
Don't Waste Valuable Time With Typical Methods of Learning Thai
Dr. Pimsleur discovered why common adults arduously stumble through traditional
learning methods, while children seem to have no difficulty acquiring essential
spoken proficiency - without formal schooling. Are adults any less
intelligent than children? Most language learning systems would leave you
feeling as though "lack of smarts" was the reason for failure.
It is time to change your approach.
This course was designed to emulate how children acquire language naturally,
and YOU will learn Thai in the same way, only much faster
and without boring yourself into a slumber. You?ve already
learned one language with this approach. Your first one!
Can I Learn Thai With No Effort On My Part?
Pimsleur Thai courses are not magical. They are quite the opposite.
Pimsleur courses offer you the means to learn Thai
naturally. As is true with any learning endeavor, the best results will be achieved by those
who have a sincere desire to learn Thai. You will need to be able to set aside 30 minutes
each day to complete each Pimsleur lesson.
The benefit lies in the fact that each lesson establishes a foundation for
the next, giving you the ?tools? to partake in grammatically
correct conversations with native speakers quickly and easily.
What Is The Alternative?
Traditional adult language instruction has relied on teaching methods using
written text materials, stressing grammatical terminology, translation,
and rote learning of rules. Language learning in classes (even in groups as small as
2 or 3 people often results in confusion and a lack of individual attention and progress
for individual students. Textbooks, confusing charts and exhausting wordplay
are simply not fit for how the brain was naturally designed to acquire language.
And it is now clear, after years of trying, that this approach does not
work with adults.
Oral history came long before written history. Most language systems
fail to recognize that writing is merely a representation of a spoken
language. So perhaps you should ask yourself, ?Why should I learn
to read Thai if I can?t even speak it yet??
Change Your Perception of Thai Forever In The First 10 Minutes!
What defines ?foreign? in terms of language is that your brain
does not recognise sounds that it is hearing; therefore it does not actively
process this "noise" without immediate feedback. This course will
change the way your brain perceives this ?babble? by immersing
you in conversation with native speakers from the very beginning. 10 minutes
into your first Pimsleur Thai lesson your brain will have already begun naturally
processing spoken Thai and your perception of the language will have
changed forever!
Over 25 million people including the FBI, CIA, NSA and the worlds largest companies are using Pimsleur.
Who Uses Pimsleur Programs?
Over 25 million people around the world have embraced the Pimsleur
learning method. Pimsleur programs are used by government departments, multi-nationals,
students, travelers, individuals who have married into foreign families,
business people, and curious learners alike. Why? Because the Pimsleur method works! Endorsed by the American
Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Pimsleur
Language Programs offer the world the most innovative and effective means
to learn a new language quickly.
I liked the way that there was a fluent conversation between two Chinese people
at the beginning of each CD. When you first listen to it you think
'Oh my God - that's impossible', but by the end of the CD you can do it!
Listen to it again and you realise it was not impossible at all!
It is really confidence boosting!
- Language Advantage
"EXTREMELY ACCESSIBLE. The speakers
have pleasant voices, each section within the lessons is short enough
to hold our attention, and there is enough repetition to teach even
those who consider themselves slow learners. Pimsleur tapes are extremely
thorough and easy to use-quite lively!"
- Boston Herald
"Learn French while commuting, German while jogging,
Spanish while cooking (or Russian, Italian, and Japanese) all with
NO WRITTEN MATERIALS!"
- New York Daily News
"Designed for the ear and not the eye. The lessons
provide PERFECT 30-minute bites of work."
- St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
"There's a tutorial on tape to suit every need.
Using a UNIQUE system [the] segments will have you carrying on simple
conversations at the end of just four hours."
- Bookpage
"THE MARKET LEADER in self-instructional foreign language tapes."
- Business Life
"I teach German for a living and have found the Pimsleur program to be one of the best for teaching an adult a language in the shortest amount of time (roughly a month).
Although this is a great program for adults, my 6 year old son finds the dialog boring. (Of course the dialog would be very useful for someone traveling to a foreign country). By coercion and bribery I convinced him to listen to several lessons, and his German accent became quite good."
- Tom Stewart
"A WELCOME CHANGE from some of the more formal, highly structured
language tapes."
- Audio-Visual Guide
"The Pimsleur method worked really well for me.
It was effortless learning and I was always thrilled to go to the next language level.
It kept my interest throughout the whole program and it has been wonderful
to be able to use it in my travels. The flight attendants ? and the interpreters ?
tell me that I have an excellent accent, and it?s been easy to do it."
- Northwest Airline Pilot
"This is the easiest and simplest language method.
OUTSTANDING!"
- New Hampshire Union Leader
"IDEAL for commuters."
- Publishers
Weekly
"Learn to habla espanol or parlez fran?ais before
your next trip aboard. The interactive LESSONS CHALLENGE STUDENTS
to use new words in conversation instead of memorize them."
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American Way, American Airlines in-flight magazine
"An excellent set of tapes. Simply play these on
the tapedeck of your car each day for a few weeks and in no time at
all, YOU'LL BE SPEAKING LIKE A NATIVE."
- Sun Country,
Sun Country Airlines in-flight magazine
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