I think I have finally identified an underlying theme in Pimsleur: picking up strange ladies. Lesson 5's conversation focuses on asking for directions from a young lady (a review of lesson 4) and parlaying that into asking her if she wants to get a bite to eat or drink. This one has been a little tough, I had to listen to it twice to get the verb volere. The lesson introduces using the verb in the conditional, which is a little out there.
The Pismleur approach is very much conversational. I am used to trying to learn a language with a stronger written basis. Especially the verb conjugation. I feel like I should dive into another language course that has a workbook. While I am think the conversational part is working for me and I can form appropriate sentences with the parts the lessons are feeding me, my vocab is incredibly limited. I mean, I think a very common situation in another country is reading a menu. I want to be able to figure out a menu and order from it, but Pimsleur is definitely not focused on the written. Also, it hasn't yet done basic stuff, like numbers, days of the week, telling time. These things are probably coming, but I could stand to get started on filling out that vocab.
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