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Dr.
Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of the
world’s leading experts in applied linguistics. After obtaining
his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics
and Phonemics, and supervised the language laboratory at UCLA. He
went on to become Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education,
and Director of The Listening Center at Ohio State University; Professor
of Education and Romance Languages at the State University of New
York at Albany; and a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Heidelberg.
Dr.
Pimsleur was a member of the American Association of Teachers
of French (AATF), American Educational Research Association (AERA),
Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding member of the
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
His many books and articles revolutionized theories of language
learning and teaching.
After
years of research and development, including field studies of
spoken language training with adults, Dr. Pimsleur created a new
method for self–instruction in spoken languages that is based
on the way the human brain takes in language as speech. Of the
several unique features of the Method, two key principles: the
Principle of Anticipation
and a scientific principle of memory that he called Graduated
Interval Recall This is the only language teaching program
which incorporates these essential principles to provide you with
the most easy–to–do, amazingly rapid, and highly cost–effective
learning method available.
"Language,
as Delattre says, is above all speech, not writing; a language
that is not spoken is called "dead." If you will trust
your ear, you are almost certain to speak with a good accent.
Conversely, if you trust your eye alone, your accent may be a
poor one."
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