Audio course
Pimsleur
Half-hour audio lessons built on spoken recall, made for commutes. Audio-first course of 30-minute spoken lessons using graduated interval recall, with reading lessons and review games in the app.
The cheapest published subscription works out to $13.75/mo (All Access Annual, $164.95); the monthly plan is $19.95; a lifetime plan is $150 one-time.
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Published plans
Every consumer plan on Pimsleur's own pricing page or app-store listing on the read date, in US dollars unless marked. Per month is the plan price divided by its term; promotions are noted, never used for the figure.
| Plan | Billing | Price | Per month | Covers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Access AnnualAll AccessA promotional first year of $131.96 (20% off) was running today: LIMITED TIME SALE: 20% OFF 1st YEAR, $164.95 struck through, $131.96 charged. | Annual | $164.95 | $13.75/mo | all languages | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Premium MonthlyPremiumRead on the Spanish (Latin American) course page; the same page states Pimsleur Premium subscription is $19.95/month. | Monthly | $19.95 | $19.95/mo | one language | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| All Access MonthlyAll Access | Monthly | $20.95 | $20.95/mo | all languages | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Individual level (one language)PremiumPromotional price of $105 today for Level 1; price varies by language and level. | Lifetime | $150 | one-time | one language | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Complete course, Levels 1-5 (one language)PremiumPromotional price of $402.50 today; read on the Spanish (Latin American) page, price varies by language. | Lifetime | $575 | one-time | one language | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| All Access LifetimeAll AccessPromotional price of $399 today under the banner Labor Day Sale: Save up to 50% off Lifetime Subscriptions! | Lifetime | $798 | one-time | all languages | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
See current prices on Pimsleur's site
What Pimsleur publishes about itself
| Fact | As published | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CEFR levels stated | not stated (not stated by the vendor) | noneread 2026-09-06 |
| What it is | Audio course. Audio-first course of 30-minute spoken lessons using graduated interval recall, with reading lessons and review games in the app. | none |
| Languages offered | 51: Albanian, Arabic (Eastern), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Modern Standard), Armenian (Eastern), Armenian (Western), Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari Persian, Dutch, Farsi Persian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Ojibwe, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Spain-Castilian), Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Free tier | None | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, Web | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Offline mode | Yes | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Speech recognition | Yes | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Live tutoring | Not stated | none |
| Placement test | Not stated | none |
| Refund or trial | 7-day free trial on subscriptions; 30 Day money back guarantee on purchases | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Company | Simon & Schuster, LLC (Pimsleur is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio) | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
Languages you can learn on Pimsleur
Pimsleur states 51 languages; the 50 below are the ones enumerated on its pages.
Albanian, Arabic (Eastern), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Modern Standard), Armenian (Eastern), Armenian (Western), Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari Persian, Dutch, Farsi Persian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Ojibwe, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Spain-Castilian), Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
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Affiliate programme and how this page links out
Pimsleur runs an affiliate programme through Impact, with the commission rate not published. This site has not joined it: the links on this page are plain, untracked links to Pimsleur, and they would stay in the same place, in the same order, if that changed. Source: programme page, read 2026-09-06.
Sources
- https://www.pimsleur.com/learn-spanish-latin-american/ (read 2026-09-06)
- https://www.pimsleur.com/learn-spanish-latin-american/lifetime-subscription/ (read 2026-09-06)
- https://www.pimsleur.com/list-of-languages/ (read 2026-09-06)
- https://www.pimsleur.com/ (read 2026-09-06)
- https://www.pimsleur.com/business-inquiries/ (read 2026-09-06)