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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