Pimsleur Basic Ojibwe - Audio Book CD
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About Basic Ojibwe
This Basic program contains 5 hours of audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.
HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT®
What is the Pimsleur® difference?
The pimsleur language knowledge usage is a language remembering scheme designed by Dr Paul Pimsleur. The system is predicated on 4 core themes : anticipation, graduated intermission recollection, basic vocabulary, in addition to organic learning. The Pimsleur system is an audiobook approach, in which the learner builds sentences or repeats from memory along with a recording. Foreign language courses usually necessitate a student to repeat subsequent to an teacher, which Pimsleur stated was a passive system of learning. Pimsleur developed a "challenge and retort" practice, where a learner was prompted to transform a phrase into the target language, which was then established. This procedure makes a more energetic way of studing, forcing the student to ponder before replying. Dr paul pimsleur said the principle of anticipation mirrored real conversations in that a orator must bring to mind a saying quickly.
The Dr pimsleur technique focuses on teaching universally used words in order to lead to a comprehensive awareness of a "core vocabulary". However, word-frequency text analyses point to that a reasonably small fundamental vocabulary accounts for the preponderance of language spoken in a specific language. For example, in English, a set of 1900 words composes about 80% of the entire printed words. Therefore, an discernment of these 1800 words would result in just about an 80% word comprehension rank.
The 10 lessons in the Basic Ojibwe are the same as the first 10 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive Ojibwe Level 1.
The 10 lessons in Basic Ojibwe are also the first 10 lessons in the 16 lesson Conversational Ojibwe edition.
Pimsleur learners progress from either the Basic or the Conversational to the Comprehensive Level 1, and not from Basic to Conversational edition.
About the Ojibwe Language
The Ojibwe language is known as Anishinaabemowin or Ojibwemowin, and is still widely spoken. The language belongs to the Algonquian linguistic group, and is descended from Proto-Algonquian. Its sister languages include Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Fox, Menominee, Potawatomi, and Shawnee. Anishinaabemowin is frequently referred to as a "Central Algonquian" language; however, Central Algonquian is an area grouping rather than a genetic one. Ojibwemowin is the fourth most spoken Native language in North America (US and Canada) after Navajo, Cree, and Inuktitut. Many decades of fur trading with the French established the language as one of the key trade languages of the Great Lakes and the northern Great Plains.
The Ojibwe presence was made highly visible among non-Native Americans and around the world by the popularity of the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1855. The epic contains many toponyms that originate from Ojibwe words. |
