While this does not constitute a complete review, it does help reinforce the learning that occurred in Phases I, II, and III.
Generally speaking, these phases continue to expand the “core vocabulary” that an adult would encounter while travelling through the region, either on vacation or on business, where the target language dominates.Īs to be expected, phases IV and V continue introduce more advanced verb tenses, moods, voices, and sentence structures, and as for the preceding levels, the student must “infer” the grammar from the lesson materials.Ī nice feature of Phases IV and V is that a portion of the vocabulary and grammatical structures of the previous levels is woven seamlessly into the new lessons. The lessons themselves include more idiomatic expressions than do the previous levels and the Reading Booklets are more supportive of the goal of acquiring the language. I believe that that a more representative number for new vocabulary would be somewhere between 250 and 300 words per phase and this comment applies to Phases IV and V, as well. In my opinion, in order to achieve these numbers, the publisher must have counted as a “new word” every variant in the word family (gender, number, case, noun, adjective, adverb, verb conjugation).
Simon & Schuster promotes the Pimsleur courses as introducing 500 to 600 new words per phase. I have completed the Pimsleur IV and V phases for German, Spanish, and Italian and I have skimmed over the comparable phases for Pimsleur French.
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