Pimsleur Italian Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Italian with Pimsleur Language Programs (Volume 1)

I would highly recommend this set of CDs for beginners to Italian. Listening to it in the car to and from work has improved my italian enormously. Simple and easy to follow. I'm just about to buy the next set!

英語で学ぶ教材だけど、英語ができる人には安上がりで学べるのでお得な商品です。聞いてるだけでとは言わないけど、本から勉強するよりは頭に入る感じです。

The pace and repetition of new vocabulary and phrases followed by short conversations is excellent, in my opinion. Through modelling, attention is paid to correct pronunciation. As new vocabulary is introduced , the previous vocabulary words and phrases are reviewed and incorporated. There are no written materials so that the learner is only listening to the correct pronunciation and not trying to use English phonetics of printed words. By the time I finish this set of 16, 30-minute lessons I think I will be confident with simple, conversational Italian.

We recently went to Italy on a family vacation and wanted to make some attempt to be familiar with the language. I decided to purchase this product as it looked like a good introduction at a good price while realizing that I was not going to be fluent in the language. It comes with 16 half-hour lessons on 8 CDs. There is also a little bit of reading practice, but its almost all verbal. The lessons work well in a car although it can be a bit hard to get pronunciation right in a noisy environment. For me it was perfect because my commute is also about a half hour long. I needed to do each lesson at least twice, but your mileage will, I'm sure, vary. The lesson content could use a little bit of work, some of the introductory lessons seem to be aimed mostly at single guys that might hope to pick up an Italian lady. That's certainly a valid use case, but both my wife and I felt it wasn't subtle at all. Fortunately, in my opinion, and taken as a whole, the lessons do provide a foundation of Italian including many useful phrases, numbers, time, directions, etc. on top of how to ask a lady if she's like to have a drink at your place. I certainly did not speak Italian even remotely well when we arrived at our vacation destination, but these lessons made all the difference, and I was able to handle a surprisingly large number of interactions. Pimsleur deserves 5 stars for a great introduction to Italian.

I found this nothing special. it repeats few sentences many many times...but does not cover lots of subjects. Langenscheit series are much better.