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Originally Posted by manners
I like Pimsleurs products for getting fluency after you know some of the material.
Learning to read a bit helps with understanding how words and sentences are made up. Just remembering and blurting out phrases etc is not really understanding and doesn't allow you to be creative because you won't know how.
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True enough and I second to that.
Pimsleurs doesn't teach you intensified or wide-ranging topics. It doesn't dwells into details. It focus on prepared texts and set phrases. Then it drills you repeatedly within these texts and set-phrases. It provides you explaination on these.
Therefore, if you were to start from nothing and began with Pimsleur, your Japanese wouldn't go anywhere other that what has been taught.
However, if you had started on Pimsleurs with some basic understanding of Japanese, THEN I believe that you would benefit better from it. It would enhance your understanding of the subject better.
At least, that is how I felt about Pimsleur.