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"Can You Imagine Having A Conversation In A Different Language Just 30 Days From Now?"

"At LearnLikeASpy.com You Will Discover The Recipe For Mastering Any Language Without Wasting The Time, Effort And Money That Most Learners Do. Using 40 Years of Developments The Unique Pimsleur Method Will Help You To Successfully Converse About Everyday Situations With Native Language Speakers In Just 30 Days."

Dear Aspiring Language Learner,

If you'd like language lessons that are proven and effective, can be started TODAY and are completely portable to use whenever you like then this will be the most important letter you'll ever read on how to learn a language the right way.

Learning a new language can often leave you frustrated, discouraged, angry, tired, and helpless - be it with pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, writing or speaking - at LearnLikeASpy.com we will change your language learning experience forever.

"THE PIMSLEUR APPROACH IS THE BEST EVER! This is the best program available to learn Korean on the market today. I know because I have audited a dozen of them. It is very simple..."
D. M. Rothschild, Ph.D

That is why I urge you to give us your full attention for the next few minutes - sta away from emails, phone calls, and other people - just shut yourself off for 5 minutes and read this letter word for word.

Here's why:

Pimsleur Language Courses took 40 years to develop and are now used by the FBI, CIA, and business professionals everywhere. Each lesson has been scientifically designed for optimum learning meaning you don't just study a new language - you learn it.

Better still - with our easy to use instant download facility you can start learning like a spy and speaking like a native within minutes!! With our instant start you don't have to wait for the course to be shipped - you can get into it right now if you want.

Now, I know you're probably skeptical. That's normal and healthy. Let me give you three good reasons we can back up what we claim:

Three Reasons To Believe What I Say

Reason one: Pimsleur Language Courses are so successful they are now used by the FBI, CIA, and business professionals everywhere.

Reason two: Nine out of ten Pimsleur users report they have acquired specific, measurable spoken foreign-language communication skills when they have completed the first 30 lessons of a course - this is just 15 hours of study!

Reason three: The Pimsleur approach is critically acclaimed in publications all over the world and is endorsed by Derek Bickerton PHD, a linguistic expert known the world over for his work on the evolution of language.

 

"This website and communication follow up is a class act, and sets the standard for foreign language study."
Morton Fraser, Norfolk, UK


To Learn a New Language People Often Come Up Against All Sorts Of Problems. Using the Pimsleur Approach At LearnLike A Spy.com We Will Show You How To Overcome Them. Here Is A Summary Of The Benefits You Will Receive:

 Proven Scientific Approach

- Fast and effective lessons helps you retain what you learn

 No boring repetition, charts or meaningless formulas

- easy to digest and makes sense

 Optimum Learning.

Each lesson lasts 30 minutes - research shows this to be the optimum period for learning

 Organic Learning

- You will be working on your vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation all at once

 Learn phrases that have practical use in daily life

- You will be able to use what you learn straight away

 Each lesson as the foundation for the next

- You can build on what you have previously learned

 Totally audio based

- You will learn to converse with a native speaker. No more struggling to figure out what they say - you will know, recognise and be able to participate

 Free and instant delivery

- the courses can be downloaded quickly straight away

 Portable Courses

- download to CD, ipod or MP3 player so you can learn on the move

 File size flexibility

- Files can be broken into smaller parts for easier download on slow connections

 Satisfaction Guarantee

- If you are not satisfied you will get a full refund

 Full customer support

all the help you need when you need it 

Now, you're probably wondering how and why we can do all those things.

Let me explain.

With Pimsleur Language Programs you don't just study a language: You learn it. With the unique Pimsleur Method you could be successfully conversing about everyday situations with native speakers of the language in just 30 days.

The courses are designed to teach you, in the shortest time possible, functional mastery in understanding and speaking a new language. Dr Pimsleur's research shows that 30 minutes is the optimum period for learning, and that audio language programs are more successful in teaching language since students learn primarily with their ears, not their eyes.

This means that with the Pimsleur Language Programs you don't spend hours learning verb conjugations, and you don't waste time with books and written exercises. Instead you interact with an expert teacher and a native speaker of the language so that you learn the language as spoken everyday by educated citizens in their business and social lives.

"Pimsleur programs provide plenty of positive reinforcement that will keep learners on track, and we found that Pimsleur gave us more proficiency and confidence in speaking the new language than any of the other language programs we reviewed."
AudioFile Magazine

Click Here to start learning a language proficiently in only 30 minutes a day, without the need for books or memorization!

The Pimsleur Language Programs are not about memorizing or translating, but about learning grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in a natural and exciting way. For each 30 minute lesson you will interact with a teacher and a native speaker of the language, enabling you to acquire the essential core of the language you are learning.

Instead of going through memorization drills, Pimsleur trains your ear to capture and retain the sounds of the spoken language you are learning. By learning a language on several fronts at once (grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation), the language-learning network in your brain internalizes the rules of the language you are acquiring. The result is: you will be begin speaking and attaining your new language in as little as 30 minutes! 

"EXTREMELY ACCESSIBLE...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 [programs] are extremely thorough and easy to use -- quite lively!"
Boston Herald

The majority of language learners make the same language mistakes over and over again without really realizing it. You could be one of them but don't worry...

It's NOT your fault! Because you have probably never been taught the right way in the first place - whether you have tried a language course or not!

Why?

Because the methods drilled into us back in school were most of the time totally wrong! And most people still firmly believe in traditional language education and refuse to change their mindsets or open up to more possibilities. They stubbornly toil through their language courses the way they had been doing unsuccessfully for so many years and end up quitting time and time again.

What you have to realise before you even start to learn a language: Many people tend to downplay just what it takes to master a foreign language, and just in case you still haven't found out yourself...

Learning a foreign language is hard.

That is why it is critical that you don't make it harder for yourself by learning the wrong way and treading the same old beaten paths to failure.

Luckily you don't have to suffer the same language misery. Because you have an easier way that was 40 Years In The Making... 

The Pimsleur Method

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Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the world's leading experts in applied linguistics. He was fluent in French, good in German, and had a working knowledge of Italian, Russian, Modern Greek, and Mandarin Chinese.

After obtaining his Ph.D. in French and a Masters in Psychology from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and Linguistics at UCLA.


He later became Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center (a state-wide language lab) 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.

He did research on the psychology of language learning and in 1969 was Section Head of Psychology of Second Language Learning at the International Congress of Applied Linguistics.

Dr. Pimsleur's Method of Learning is based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory that he called Graduated Interval Recall. This program incorporates both of these principles to provide you with the most simple and effective learning method possible. His method also incorporates two other unique components that are also important: Core Vocabulary Acquisition, and the Organic Learning Method.

Principle of Anticipation
The Principle of Anticipation requires you to "anticipate" a correct answer. Practically, what this means is that you must retrieve the answer from your own memory before it is confirmed in the lesson. It works as follows:

The lesson will pose a challenge—perhaps by asking you, in the new language:

"Are you going to the movies today?"

There will be a pause, and, drawing on information given previously, you will say:

"No, I went yesterday."

The instructor will then confirm your answer: "No, I went yesterday."

Before Dr. Pimsleur created his teaching method, language courses were based instead on the principle of repetition. Teachers drummed words into the students' minds over and over, as if the mind were a record whose grooves wore deeper with repetition.

However, neurophysiologists tell us that, on the contrary, simple and unchallenging repetition has a hypnotic, even dulling effect on the learning process. Eventually, the words being repeated will lose their meaning.

Dr. Pimsleur discovered that learning accelerates when there is an "input/output" system of interaction, in which students receive information and then are asked to retrieve and use it.


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.

In his research, Dr. Pimsleur discovered how long students remembered new information and at what intervals they needed to be reminded of it. If reminded too soon or too late, they failed to retain the information. This discovery enabled him to create a schedule of exactly when and how the information should be reintroduced.

Suppose you learn a new word. You tell yourself to remember it, but after five minutes you can't recall it. If you'd been reminded of it after five seconds, you probably would have remembered it for maybe a minute -- then you would have needed another reminder. Each time you are reminded, you remember the word longer than you did the time before. The intervals between reminders become longer and longer, until you eventually remember the word without being reminded at all.

This program is designed to remind you of new information at the exact intervals where maximum retention takes place. Each time your memory begins to fade, you will be asked to recall the word. Through this powerful method, you progress from short-term to long-term memory without being aware of it, while avoiding the monotonous rote repetition used in traditional language courses.


Core Vocabulary
The Principle of Anticipation and Graduated Interval Recall are the foundation of the Pimsleur Method, but there are other unique components that are also important. One is the theory of a core vocabulary.

We have all been intimidated, when approaching a new language, by the sheer number of new words we must learn. But extensive research has shown that we actually need a comparatively limited number of words to be able to communicate effectively in any language.

Language can be divided into two distinct categories: grammatical structures (function words) and concrete vocabulary (content words). By focusing on function words and enabling the student to comprehend and employ the structure of a new language, Dr. Pimsleur found that language learners were able to more readily put new knowledge to use. There are very few content words that are used every day. The essential core of a language involves function words, which tend to relate to human activities.


Organic Learning
The Pimsleur Method centers around teaching, in the shortest time possible, functional mastery in understanding and speaking a language. You will be working on your vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation all at once, while also learning phrases that have practical use in daily life.

It has been said that language is primarily speech. With this concept in mind, Dr. Pimsleur created his language programs on audio because he knew that students of languages would learn better with their ears, not their eyes.

This is achieved through what Dr. Pimsleur called "organic learning," which entails learning on several fronts at once. His system enables the student to learn grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in a natural and exciting way.

This course is designed to teach you to understand and to speak the essential elements of your new language in a relatively short time. During each half-hour lesson, you will actually converse with two people, using the type of language spoken by educated citizens in their everyday business and social life. The program's unique method for presenting dialogue relieves you of most common learning problems.

To further explain try this simple analogy...

How old were you when you ate your first cookie? Try not to laugh! Did you know what a cookie was before your first bite? Mommy or Daddy didn't force you to memorize the ingredients before your first taste. But you sure knew how to ask for seconds!

Pimsleur makes learning and speaking a new language just that easy. You just have to listen and participate with your Pimsleur course.

By age four, a child has acquired the building blocks of a "first" language at a rate of about one every five hours of waking time exposed to the language in use. With this course, YOU will learn your new language at the rate of almost one item for every minute of Pimsleur training.

The entire Pimsleur approach is what language learning should be: quick, fun, and easy! Many foreign language students have difficulty learning. Their textbooks teach monotonous drills, grammar rules, and random lists of words. But textbooks alone can never bring it all together.

Your only real goal in taking any language course is to speak that language naturally with others.

Dr. Pimsleur designed each lesson as the foundation for the next. In other words, you'll keep building on what you've previously learned.

Best of all,  Pimsleur courses do NOT waste your time by cramming grammar down your throat. You learn to recognize what sounds right through practice. The Pimsleur approach's subtle grammar lessons won't seem like grammar lessons at all.

The Pimsleur approach is so effective because it traces how people developed language. Before written history, we had oral history. Most people, even kings, couldn't write or read in ancient times. Some people can't even read today.

Most language learning systems fail to acknowledge that writing only exists to represent the words we speak. So you should ask yourself, "Why should I learn to read a language if I can't even speak it?"

The Pimsleur method immediately immerses you in conversation to help you grasp the syntax or structure of the language you are trying to learn.

Amazingly, once you understand the syntax, that chaotic, "foreign" sound so common to language learning disappears instantly. You'll start to recognize words and phrases. The Pimsleur approach will help to change your perception within your first 30 minutes!

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Dr Pimsleur took years of research to develop his courses, but you will need only hours to learn a new language!

Today Dr Pimsleur's methods are used by the FBI, CIA, and by business professionals who need to speak another language quickly and proficiently.

In fact, nine out of ten Pimsleur users report they have acquired specific, measurable spoken foreign-language communication skills when they have completed the first 30 lessons of a course.

This means that even with as little as 15 hours of Pimsleur language training, ninety percent of Pimsleur learners are able to converse comfortably with native speakers.

"Learn to habla español or parlez français before your next trip aboard. The interactive LESSONS CHALLENGE STUDENTS to use new words in conversation instead of memorize them."
American Way (American Airlines inflight magazine)

Instant Download

Best of all since the courses are available to download immediately you don't need to wait for the CDs to be shipped or have the stress of relying on the post for your order to arrive - instead you could start learning your chosen in language within just minutes. Just Click Here and choose the language you want to get started on!

When you order a Pimsleur course from LearnLikeASpy.com you have access to the course materials as soon as you have made your payment - access is instant and very easy.

Once you have made your purchase you will be taken through to a special part of the site where you can download the files you have purchased.

Easy to follow instructions are provided on a download page which you are directed to automatically. You will also be asked to set up a username and password which will allow you to access your purchases on the site any time you wish! 

Should you wish to download the files later, or need to re-download the files for any reason, simply login to your Library at the site and download/re-download the files from there.

From there the courses are completely portable and the training can be accomplished using the appliance of most convenience to you. You can transfer your course to:

  • an MP3 player
  • an ipod 
  • CDs
  • or just study from your PC or laptop

And if this sounds in any way complicated don't worry. We have easy to follow training videos available for you on the site as well as a customer support center should you need it. And don't forget - customers who download a full course get a free MP3 player on which to learn!

But what if my internet connection is slow?

These days most people have a broadband connection meaning  it will take just a few minutes per part to download. If you have a 56k dial-up connection it will be considerably longer but don't worry. 

If a recording is several hours long we will split it into several parts to make it easier to download meaning that even if you are on a slow connection you can start listening to the first part whilst the others are downloading.

As you will soon see LearnLikeASpy.com not only provides you with the ultimate language study material, but we also providing a leading technological platform from which to deliver it to you in minutes. The courses themselves may have taken 40 years to develop but you can start using  them right now to benefit from the ultimate language study provider!

You don't need to take my word for it though. Just listen to what other customers have to say:

"Yes, I am very please with the Croatian 1 course, I visit Croatia every year as my wife is a native of there. She has tried to teach me, but she doesn't have the same approach as this course,I cant believe how easy it is to learn. The course is very effective, and easy to use, I believe, in m humble opinion that anyone wanting to learn useful Croatian should get this course, they won't regret it. Thanks guys!!"

Derek Carroll, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland



"Very quick start to German. These lessons allow you to learn as quickly or slowly as you like. Also, the way that it is presented allowed me to retain the skills much longer than I was able to using book or book-and-tape methods. Perhaps most importantly, by learning aurally and practicing orally I DEVELOPED VERY GOOD PRONUNCIATION."

Damien Del Russo, Dusseldorf, Germany


Utterly fab! Can't praise highly enough! Will be back

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A truly excellent product cannot recomend this enough

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"Top-quality teach-yourself Japanese, no reading involved. LEARNING LANGUAGES WAS NEVER THIS MUCH FUN…I would recommend this to all who would like to begin their study of the Japanese language… the Pimsleur approach is very easy to learn from, hear and repeat."

Christopher Muro, Pittsburgh, PA



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"It's great! This audiobook made me and my little sister learn the basics of the French language. It's really effective. Well, Dr. Pimsleur's approach works for both the young and the old. Now, I YEARN TO LEARN MORE."

Leah Nillas, Quezon City, Philippines



"Easy and fast to purchase, download and start using the on-line language course."

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"WOW, IT REALLY WORKS! Yes, it really works…If the first course that gives me this fluency/confidence; it goes without saying that the rest will do the same. I started speaking in German with my friends. Buy it, listen to it and find yourself speaking in German."

Ik Soo Lim, Lausanne, Switzerland



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What Can You Expect From LearnLikeASpy.com

When you order a downloadable Pimsleur Language course from LearnLikeASpy.com you will be able to start your learning in minutes. With each order you will receive:

  • Instant Access to the Pimsleur Language course that you have ordered.
  • Full and easy to follow instructions with a a customer support center to back you up if necessary.
  • An ebook copy of any reading booklets and study aids that come with your specific course.
  • Your own audio book account where you can access your courses at a later date should you need to
  • Portable language study - transferrable to MP3, CD, ipod.
  • The ability to learn like a spy using the same courses used by the FBI and CIA

Just Take A Moment to Realize This...

In just days from now, depending on how quickly you want to get started, you will get rid of all your language learning headaches and start to acquire any language at an astounding rate that will shock everyone around you.

You will ...

 Speak any foreign language you choose with flawless pronunciation that makes the natives refuse to believe you're a foreigner

 Acquire a large vocabulary in a short time that shocks your peers and teachers

 Easily remember and apply even the most complicated grammar rules

 Quickly immerse in the native culture and understand what people are talking about as if it's your mother tongue, even if they speak with an accent.

 Talk just like the native speakers and communicate with them effortlessly just like you're talking to your closest friends

So How Do I Get Started?

You will be pleasently surprised to learn that starting your new language journey is just a few clicks away. 

Get started by clicking on the language you would like to learn from the box below and we will provide you with the options best for you:

Choose Your Language Lessons  

Mac Users - All of the downloadable audio Language Courses on this site are supplied in Digital Rights Media (DRM) encoded wma format. DRM is a system used to protect the copyrights of digital content, especially video and music/audio files.

This means that our language courses will NOT currently license and play on a Mac. This is as a result of the withdrawal of support by Microsoft for their Windows Media Player for Mac product, and as such is beyond our control. You'll see a warning at the checkout to this effect.

If you do wish to play the language lessons on your Mac then there is a way to do so but you will need access to a PC initially. If you have access to a PC your encoded wma title(s) can be downloaded to the PC and after licensing, the files can be burned to audio CD and the CD tracks copied back to your Mac.

 


 

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If you are not 100% happy with your purchase just let us know and we will refund your money in full. This means you can purchase from us with complete confidence.

You don't have to decide now if this product is for you. Just get it and try it out. If it doesn't do everything we say and more just let us know and we will give you every penny of your money back!

There's simply no way you can lose, except if you don't take up this unconditional trial.

So you have nothing to lose and whole new horizons to gain.

Again Here's How To Get Started...

All you need to do is chose which language it is you would like to learn by clicking on one of the selection below. This will then take you to the options you have for that particular language - you can also listen to a sample audio if you wish.

All that is required then is to select the course you wish to purchase and have your debit or credit card details available. 

  Choose Your Language Lessons

Mac Users - All of the downloadable audio Language Courses on this site are supplied in Digital Rights Media (DRM) encoded wma format. DRM is a system used to protect the copyrights of digital content, especially video and music/audio files.

This means that our language courses will NOT currently license and play on a Mac. This is as a result of the withdrawal of support by Microsoft for their Windows Media Player for Mac product, and as such is beyond our control. You'll see a warning at the checkout to this effect.

If you do wish to play the language lessons on your Mac then there is a way to do so but you will need access to a PC initially. If you have access to a PC your encoded wma title(s) can be downloaded to the PC and after licensing, the files can be burned to audio CD and the CD tracks copied back to your Mac.

 



As already mentioned, studying with us is easy and quick. Our instructions and support should mean that you are learning in just minutes from now. However in the unlikely event you have any problems or if you have any questions that have not been answered here or on the Frequently Asked Questions page then please feel free to contact us.

In the meantime select your language and enjoy where it takes you.

To your success!

LearnLikeASpy.com

 

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