Pimsleur Fitness Program!

I’m not quite sure how this plan will go, but at present I am intending to use Pimsleur to walk my way through the winter. I want to language-learn myself back into shape!

I did it in 2009 and I can do it again.

As I have reported about five billion times, I love love love Pimsleur. It is my favorite language-learning system of all time. They have products for over 50 languages, and I have made my way through about 22. 

Or is it 23?

My Language Learning Shelves, Albanian to Zulu

I would have to doublecheck, but in any case there are lots left. Plus more lessons have been made for Mandarin and Japanese and Modern Standard Arabic since I did those the first time.

They do not pay me to say this. I’m like a stalker.

Today on a long walk I finished the last of Pimsleur’s 30 half-hour Ukrainian lessons. I love the consonants. My Ukrainian vowels are not quite as well-formed, but I have hope for the future.

Next are their Turkish lessons. I’m already on the fourth lesson of 30. I also took a nap in the early evening to Vietnamese lesson 1 and Urdu lesson 1.

It’s really very relaxing. I want a better sense of the sounds of the language-learning universe. There are too many languages left that are totally, completely unfamiliar to me — ones that are spoken by millions and millions of people, too! That bothers me.

Back at the office, I have recently realphabetized and reorganized my language-learning bookshelves from Albanian to Zulu. I have studied neither of those book-ending languages! But Pimsleur has 30 Albanian lessons, so I will get a bit learned on my walks if all goes as planned.

Other languages ahead for my Pimsleur Fitness Program: Croatian, Icelandic, Cantonese, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Romanian, Finnish. Thirty lessons available for each.

Scene/Seen During a Ukrainian Lesson Alongside Harlem Meer, Central Park

Twi.

Armenian, both Eastern and Western.

Lithuanian.

Ojibwe.

The thought literally makes me salivate. I am not kidding. It’s like someone just put a chocolate fountain and a plate of fresh strawberries in front of me.

I am going to post on Facebook to see if I’m the only one. I’m sure I’m not. Some of those polyglots are crazy!

If something goes wrong during my Pimsleur Fitness Program, I hope someone will call 911. If something goes right, I will enjoy myself terribly and end up with a smaller butt.