One reviewer summed it up well: “The Classic Pimsleur French app’s lack of visual resources … will probably leave fellow visual learners feeling disconnected and disoriented. Pimsleur also provides no basic, concrete explanation of French grammar”. So if you decide to use transcripts, you will be compensating for what many see as a gap in the program.

In this example, the speakers are greeting each other and asking how they are doing. The learner is encouraged to repeat the phrases and respond with their own answers.