To listen Pimsleur is annoying and boring too. I'll tell you about me and Rosetta Stone. My daughter is learning French at school. To help her I downloaded multilingual Rosetta Stone from the bay. Using it I found speaking test option and decided to try it. When you repeat after the speaker the program shows conformity. I tried and got 30-40%, my daughter couldn't get more then 15-20% so she's gone away offendedly. Having enough of both French and Rosetta Stone I decided to make an experiment and switched to Russian. What was my amazement when I got absolutely nothing. I did my best, even changed my voice but all in vain How people understand me if I can't speak Pussian