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         grammar, and vocabulary - as three separate items, totally unrelated to either life
         or language as a system of communication. Dr. Pimsleur discovered that teaching
         language as an integrated system, which requires the learner to hear and understand
         meaning and usage, will also enable the learner to use that very knowledge to think
         and speak so that native speakers will hear and understand what is being said. Having
         only courses that did not take this into consideration, it is no wonder that for years
         adult learners have reported a singular lack of success in learning how to speak
         another language with any degree of fluency.
         
         Dr. Paul Pimsleur and His Unique System
           Dr. Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of the world’s
         leading experts in applied linguistics. Obtaining his Ph.D. in French from Columbia
         University, he taught French phonetics and phonemics, and supervised the language
         laboratory at UCLA; was Professor, Romance Languages and Language Education,
         and Director of The Listening Center, Ohio State University; Professor, Education
         and Romance Languages, State University of New York at Albany; Fulbright
         lecturer, Heidelberg, Germany; member American Association of Teachers of
         French (AATF), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Modern
         Language Association (MLA), American Council on the Teaching of Foreign
         Languages (ACTFL). He was the author of many books and articles that revolution-
         ized theories of language learning and teaching. After years of experience and
         research, Dr. Pimsleur developed a new system that is based on two key principles:
         the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory that he called
         Graduated Interval Recall. This program incorporates both of these principles to
         provide you with the most simple, effective learning system possible.
         
         Principle 1: Anticipation
           The Principle ofAnticipation means simply that you will be asked to “anticipate”
         a correct answer, i.e., you must retrieve the answer from your own memory bank
         before it is confirmed by the tape. In practice, it works like this:
           The tape will pose a challenge—perhaps by asking you, in the new language: