Pimsleur Language Programs Reviews 

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 28, 2026

Hi Sinclair,

Thank you for sharing your experience with Pimsleur.

We’re delighted to hear that Pimsleur has helped you build a speaking foundation in both French and Portuguese in just a few months. The Pimsleur Method™ is designed to help learners start speaking and understanding a new language quickly through guided audio lessons, active recall, and spoken response.

We’re especially glad the courses have helped you get the basics down in a short period of time. Pimsleur focuses on practical, useful language from the beginning so learners can build confidence and continue progressing.

Thank you for recommending Pimsleur. We wish you continued success with French, Portuguese, and any language you take on next!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 28, 2026

Hi Hilaria,

Thank you for sharing your feedback.

We’re glad to hear that you think Pimsleur is good. We also appreciate your note about wanting an easy way to review the phrases you need to practice more.

One helpful feature you may want to try is the **Plus icon** on flash cards. You can use it to save words or phrases you want to come back to, and those saved items can then be reviewed in the **Skills** section of the app. It’s a great way to create a more personalized review path based on the material you want to reinforce.

The Pimsleur app also includes flash cards, quizzes, vocabulary activities, and pronunciation practice to help reinforce what you learn in the core audio lessons.

If there is anything else we could improve that would make this a 5-star experience for you, we’d love to hear it.

Thank you for learning with Pimsleur!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 26, 2026

Hi Lan,

Thank you for sharing your experience with Pimsleur Japanese.

We’re so glad to hear that you’ve been using Pimsleur for a while and feel like you’re finally learning Japanese. The core audio lessons are designed to help learners build speaking and listening skills through guided listening, active recall, and spoken response.

We’re also happy to hear that Voice Coach, flash cards, and the other review tools have been helpful after the audio lessons. That is exactly how they are intended to support the Pimsleur Method™. The audio lessons build the speaking and listening foundation, and the review tools help reinforce vocabulary, pronunciation, recall, and confidence.

Thank you for recommending Pimsleur. We wish you continued success with Japanese!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 24, 2026

Hi Alan,

Thank you for sharing your experience with Pimsleur.

We’re so glad to hear that the app feels well structured and that the 30-minute lessons are working well for you. Dr. Paul Pimsleur designed the core lessons to be long enough to introduce new material, prompt active recall, and reinforce what you’ve learned, while still being manageable to fit into a busy day.

The Pimsleur Method™ is built to make each lesson focused and effective, helping learners build speaking and listening skills step by step through guided practice, recall, and spoken response.

Thank you for learning with Pimsleur. We wish you continued success on your language-learning journey!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 24, 2026

Hi Dimitrios,

Thank you for the wonderful review!

We’re delighted to hear that Pimsleur is the best language-learning app you’ve ever used. What makes Pimsleur different is that it began as a research-based language learning method long before it became an app. For more than 60 years, the Pimsleur Method™ has helped learners build speaking and listening skills through structured lessons, active recall, and spoken response.

While many language apps are built around technology, games, or visual exercises, Pimsleur is built around a long-standing method grounded in the science of memory and language acquisition. The goal is to help learners move beyond simply recognizing words and start using the language with confidence.

Thank you for learning with Pimsleur. We wish you continued success on your language-learning journey!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 23, 2026

Hi Jorge,

Thank you for sharing your feedback.

We’re delighted to hear that you’re enjoying Pimsleur Italian and that it feels like a fast, effective way to learn to speak a new language. The Pimsleur Method™ is designed to help learners build speaking confidence through guided listening, active recall, and spoken response.

We also appreciate your request for additional Italian levels. Italian is one of our multi-level courses, and learner feedback like yours helps us understand where there is continued demand for future course development. We’re always evaluating opportunities to expand and improve our language offerings.

In the meantime, we hope you continue enjoying Italian with Pimsleur and building on the speaking foundation you’ve already developed.

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 23, 2026

Hi,

Thank you for sharing such a thoughtful review.

We’re delighted to hear that you’ve enjoyed Pimsleur enough to come back for more languages, and that you’ve completed both Italian and Spanish over the last couple of years. It’s wonderful to know that the method helped you build a strong enough foundation in Spanish to continue with in-person lessons at an intermediate level.

You captured an important part of the Pimsleur Method™: speaking aloud helps learners actively recall and retain vocabulary, grammar patterns, and sentence structures. Rather than studying grammar only as rules on a page, learners hear it in context, produce it out loud, and gradually build the confidence to use it in conversation.

We also appreciate your balanced point about fluency. No single tool does everything, but Pimsleur is designed to build a strong foundation in speaking and listening so learners can continue progressing with confidence, whether through travel, tutoring, classes, or real-world practice.

Thank you for learning Italian, Spanish, and now German with Pimsleur. We wish you continued success as you prepare for Vienna next year!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 21, 2026

Hi David,

We’re very sorry for your experience. This is not the level of service we expect our customers to receive.

If you were charged before the end of your free trial, that is something we need to review and address. We also apologize for the abrupt response you received and for the lack of follow-up. That is not consistent with our customer service standards or how we want these situations handled.

We’ve requested additional information through Trustpilot so we can identify your account, review the charge, and look into the support interaction. We will also review this internally and take appropriate follow-up steps with the team member involved.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We’d appreciate the opportunity to review what happened and make this right.

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 21, 2026

Hi Roark,

Thank you for sharing such a thoughtful review.

We’re delighted to hear that Pimsleur has been the best language-learning app you’ve used and that you made better, quicker progress with French, German, and Spanish. The Pimsleur Method™ is designed to help learners build practical speaking and listening skills through guided listening, active recall, and spoken response, so they can begin using the language with confidence.

We also appreciate your note about reading. Pimsleur is designed as a speaking and listening method first, but many courses do include dedicated reading lessons that teach the written system separately from the core audio lessons. That separation is intentional because speaking, listening, and reading develop different skills. Depending on each learner’s goals, additional reading, writing, and vocabulary work can also be helpful supplements.

Your advice about taking notes, focusing on words and phrases that are difficult, and repeating lessons when needed is excellent. Thank you for recommending Pimsleur, and we wish you continued success with French, German, Spanish, and every language you take on next!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 21, 2026

Hi John,

Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

We’re so glad to hear that consistent practice with Pimsleur Japanese is helping you feel confident speaking the language. Consistency makes a real difference, and the Pimsleur Method™ is designed to help learners build progress lesson by lesson through guided listening, active recall, and spoken response.

We’re also delighted that Pimsleur feels different from other apps you’ve tried and that you feel like you’re actually learning. The method is designed to help learners actively produce the language, not just recognize words on a screen, which is why it can feel so different when your goal is speaking.

Thank you for learning Japanese with Pimsleur. We wish you continued success as you keep going!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 21, 2026

Hi OneTwoCrazy,

Thank you for such a fantastic and thoughtful review.

We’re thrilled to hear that you’ve enjoyed Pimsleur enough to purchase the Lifetime All Access pass and that the method has helped you start speaking with real results. Pimsleur is designed to build a strong foundation in speaking, listening, and pronunciation through guided listening, active recall, spoken response, and practical conversation.

We also appreciate your point that no single tool does everything. For learners working toward full fluency, additional exposure through shows, stories, reading, writing, and real conversation can all play an important role. Pimsleur shines as a speaking-first method that helps learners begin communicating, especially for travel and everyday situations, and it can work very well alongside other resources.

It’s wonderful to hear that you’re already fluent in English and Spanish, continuing with Pimsleur German, and planning to focus on Pimsleur Japanese next. Thank you for making Pimsleur part of your language-learning journey. We wish you continued success with every language you take on!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 21, 2026

Hi Zahra,

Thank you for sharing your feedback.

We’re glad to hear that you like the immersive feel of the lessons and that pronunciation stands out as one of the strongest parts of the program for you. Pronunciation, listening, and spoken response are central to the Pimsleur Method™, and the lessons are designed to help learners train their ears, speak out loud, and build confidence with the sound and rhythm of the language.

We also appreciate your suggestions about being able to listen faster during review and improving the vocabulary review section. We understand how helpful faster playback could be when revisiting material you already know, and we’re sorry the vocabulary review experience has not felt as intuitive as it should.

As another way to review a lesson, we encourage you to try Voice Coach. Many learners like the flexibility of using Voice Coach for extra practice because it lets them revisit lesson material while also getting built-in feedback on their spoken responses and pronunciation.

Review tools such as flash cards, quizzes, vocabulary activities, Voice Coach, and pronunciation practice are meant to reinforce what learners practice in the core audio lessons, and feedback like yours helps us identify where those tools can be improved.

Thank you for learning with us, and we wish you continued success on your language-learning journey!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 21, 2026

Hi Kathryn,

Thank you for sharing your feedback.

We’re glad to hear that Pimsleur feels like a strong fit for the way you like to learn and that the audio format makes it easy to practice while doing other things. We’re sorry, though, that some of the early topics have not felt useful to you.

One important thing to know about the Pimsleur Method™ is that the early lessons are not only about the literal topic being discussed. They are designed to teach sentence structures, question forms, pronunciation, listening comprehension, and response patterns that learners can later adapt to many real-life situations. The goal is to help you start producing speech independently, not simply memorize a fixed list of phrases.

That said, many of the early French lessons do focus on practical everyday situations, including asking for directions, ordering food and drinks, scheduling meals, asking prices, paying for purchases, using cash or cards, and introducing yourself. As the course continues, the topics expand significantly into more complex everyday conversation, including business travel, shopping and negotiating prices, buying or renovating a home, calling a doctor, handling lost items, discussing relationships and family life, expressing emotions and preferences, planning vacations, and navigating unexpected situations like strikes or witnessing a crime.

We appreciate your feedback because practical conversation is exactly what Pimsleur is meant to support. We hope you’ll continue with the course and find that the early building blocks lead to more flexible, useful communication as you progress.

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 21, 2026

Hi Mr. Case,

Thank you for such a wonderful and memorable review.

Hearing this from someone who is 94, has been passionate about languages for more than 85 years, and has tried so many different methods means a great deal to us. We’re honored that you consider Pimsleur one of the very best methods available and that it continues to bring you pleasure day after day and year after year.

We also love your description of Voice Coach Challenge as a kind of language laboratory. Voice Coach is designed to extend the active practice at the heart of the Pimsleur Method™ by giving learners another feedback mechanism: they hear the language, recall it, produce it out loud, and receive feedback on their spoken response. When pronunciation needs work, Voice Coach can also provide guided correction, including the same backward breakdown technique used in the 30-minute lessons to help learners hear, practice, and improve difficult-sounding words.

We appreciate your suggestions as well, including your note about streamlining some narration and being more inclusive of English learners in course examples. Feedback from such an experienced and thoughtful learner is incredibly valuable as we continue improving the Pimsleur experience.

Thank you for recommending Pimsleur, for learning with us across so many languages, and for sharing such a generous review. We wish you continued joy in every language you explore next.

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 18, 2026

Hi Stanley,

Thank you for sharing this with us!

We’re so glad to hear that Pimsleur is the language app you’ve been able to stick with. Consistency is one of the biggest keys to language learning, and the Pimsleur Method™ is designed to help learners keep making steady progress through manageable lessons, guided listening, active recall, and spoken response.

The audio-first format also makes it easier to fit practice into everyday life, helping learners build a language-learning habit that lasts.

Thank you for learning with Pimsleur. We wish you continued success as you keep going!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 18, 2026

Hi Tomas,

Thank you for your feedback.

We understand wanting even more English for Spanish speakers, and we’re glad the course left you wanting to continue. We do want to clarify that the Pimsleur English for Spanish Speakers course includes 90 core speaking lessons and 60 reading lessons, and we also just released a dozen new Mini Lessons at the beginning of August to provide additional support and practice.

Course expansion is something we continue to evaluate, and learner interest helps us make those decisions. Since it sounds like you enjoyed the course and would mainly like to see more content added, we’d be grateful if you would consider updating your rating to reflect your overall experience with the course as it exists today. Reviews are important in helping other learners discover Pimsleur and in helping us continue to support and expand our courses.

Thank you for learning with Pimsleur. We appreciate your interest in more English content and wish you continued success.

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 18, 2026

Hi Jacqueline,

Thank you for sharing your language-learning journey with us.

We’re delighted to hear that Pimsleur has been a useful part of your travel preparation for almost four years. It’s wonderful that the method has helped you learn French, Japanese, and Korean as you get ready to visit different countries and communicate more confidently.

Pimsleur is designed to give learners a practical starting point by building speaking and listening skills through guided listening, active recall, and spoken response. Across French, Japanese, and Korean, that makes it especially helpful for travelers who want to begin using the language in real-world situations, not just study words in isolation.

Thank you for recommending Pimsleur to others who are beginning their language-learning journey. We wish you continued success with every language and every trip ahead!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 16, 2026

Hi Cath,

We’re sorry to hear about your frustration and that Pimsleur was not the right fit for you.

A charge after a confirmed cancellation date is not acceptable, and we’d like to review your account so we can understand what happened and address it appropriately. We’ve requested additional information through Trustpilot so we can identify your account and help resolve this.

We also apologize if you have not yet received a response from our support team. Emails are answered in the order they are received and can sometimes take a few days, depending on volume. For the fastest assistance, we recommend contacting us by phone or live chat through pimsleur.com/contact-us so a support representative can help in real time.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We’d like the opportunity to review this and make it right.

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 16, 2026

Hi Tues,

Thank you for such a wonderful review!

We’re delighted to hear that Pimsleur Hungarian has been so helpful and that you’re enjoying the course. Hungarian can be a challenging language for many learners, so it’s especially meaningful to hear that Pimsleur is helping with pronunciation, word order, and overall understanding in a way that feels different from other language-learning services.

The Pimsleur Method™ is designed to build speaking and listening skills step by step, using practical language in context so learners can hear, recall, and respond with confidence. We’re also glad the workbooks are helping reinforce the later lessons and giving you another way to connect what you’re hearing and saying with a deeper understanding of the language.

Thank you for recommending Pimsleur. We wish you continued success with Hungarian and every language you take on next!

Best,
The Pimsleur Team

Reply from Pimsleur Language Programs

Aug 21, 2026

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for sharing your feedback.

We’re glad to hear that you think Pimsleur is a good way to learn and recognize that it has its own method. Pimsleur is intentionally designed as a speaking and listening method first, with lessons that train learners to hear, recall, and respond out loud so they can build real conversation skills.

We also understand your suggestion about adding more pictures. Visual support can be helpful for some learners, and the app includes review tools such as flash cards, quizzes, reading lessons, and vocabulary activities to reinforce what learners practice in the core audio lessons. At the same time, the core Pimsleur Method™ focuses on developing listening, pronunciation, recall, and spoken response skills through sound and speech.

We’re sorry to hear that Voice Coach has not been registering your pronunciation accurately. That is not the experience we want, and feedback like this is very helpful as we continue improving our speech-recognition and pronunciation feedback tools. The best way to report this is directly in the app by shaking your phone to trigger the feedback tool, which helps our team capture the details needed to investigate.

Thank you again for learning with Pimsleur and for helping us improve the app experience.

Best,
The Pimsleur Team