Just listened to the "Audio User Guide," just for anal retentiveness's sake. Could have done without it. Still, I wanted to have the entire Pimsleur experience, so it was worth doing from that point of view.

Just did lesson one. I definitely think the pacing of learning the first dialog was spot on. They spend an entire 30 minutes on one fairly short dialog. I thought from the point of aural memory and pronunciation it was great. But of course I have quite a bit of language experience. I wonder whether the pace might be a bit too fast for someone who has not done a language before. On the other hand, they tell you to repeat the lesson until you are getting an 80% successful oral repetition rate, so maybe it's actually pretty good that way.