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<blockquote data-quote="Roosh" data-source="post: 303217" data-attributes="member: 1">Don't stop, keep going. I also was hitting a wall with Pimsleur and almost gave up, but I finished all three units before going to Ukraine. I felt like it wasn't going to help, but after one painful week, I was getting into a groove, and creating sentences on the fly. Most importantly, I was understood. The formal/informal conjugation is inconsequential for a beginner. You can use formal on everyone, though unit 3 does teach you informal conjugation.Don't sleep on Pimsleur. Guys pass on it now because there are fancier options, but it's the first thing I do when tackling a language, and I re-do the courses again and again. My strategy right now is Pimsleur and Michel Thomas for audio, and then working on one or two text resources at a time. Then I finish a resource, and do another one, mining them all the while for notecards (that I put in Anki). I gave it a test run in Polish and my progress was very rapid in only a month.I'm thinking about an intensive course for a month or so in June. I want to be forced to study more than my typical max of 1 hour a day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Roosh, post: 303217, member: 1"] Don't stop, keep going. I also was hitting a wall with Pimsleur and almost gave up, but I finished all three units before going to Ukraine. I felt like it wasn't going to help, but after one painful week, I was getting into a groove, and creating sentences on the fly. Most importantly, I was understood. The formal/informal conjugation is inconsequential for a beginner. You can use formal on everyone, though unit 3 does teach you informal conjugation. Don't sleep on Pimsleur. Guys pass on it now because there are fancier options, but it's the first thing I do when tackling a language, and I re-do the courses again and again. My strategy right now is Pimsleur and Michel Thomas for audio, and then working on one or two text resources at a time. Then I finish a resource, and do another one, mining them all the while for notecards (that I put in Anki). I gave it a test run in Polish and my progress was very rapid in only a month. I'm thinking about an intensive course for a month or so in June. I want to be forced to study more than my typical max of 1 hour a day. [/QUOTE]

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