Pimsleur is one of the most accurate and effective programs for learning to speak and understand a new language. This audio-based system won't teach you reading or writing, however, nor does it have any games or interactive exercises for many of its languages.If you want to learn how to speak and understand a new language, Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur is one of the best language-learning programs. Pimsleur gets in your head and stays there. It teaches pronunciation and listening like nothing else and the program has a stickiness that many competitors ...