{"id":103,"date":"2013-04-17T20:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T00:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimsleurspeaks.pimsleur.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:36:48","slug":"david-sedaris-laughs-in-three-languages-thanks-to-pimsleur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pimsleur.com\/blog\/david-sedaris-laughs-in-three-languages-thanks-to-pimsleur\/","title":{"rendered":"David Sedaris Laughs!  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And to <a href=\"https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/Ray-Brown-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/Ray-Brown-1.png\" alt=\"Ray Brown\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>hear it in those voices, to see a picture of Ray Brown- it felt almost wrong to look upon his face. It&#8217;s the way I felt when I first saw my first NPR anchor. Wait, I thought, you&#8217;re human?<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\">I hope you&#8217;re not put off by my story. I&#8217;ve used your Italian, your German, and your Japanese, all to great effect, and I recommend your program to everyone.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most sincerely,<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\" style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">David Sedaris<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/nyorder-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-107 alignright\" title=\"David Sedaris New Yorker Article\" src=\"https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/nyorder-cover-236x300.png\" alt=\"Sedaris in The New Yorker\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/nyorder-cover-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/nyorder-cover.png 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">It was while working with the fact checkers on David\u2019s article on language in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, July 11, 2011, that we realized we\u2019d found the perfect means to present our first ever Pimsleur special vocabulary lesson. They played\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">middle man, and the email exchange above took place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/owl-audio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108 \" src=\"https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/owl-audio-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Sedaris Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/owl-audio-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/d3brn974kg3172.cloudfront.net\/2013\/04\/owl-audio.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Sedaris&#8217; new book.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">David Sedaris\u2019 new book and audio book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/david-sedaris\/lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls\/9780316154697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Let\u2019s Explore Diabetes with Owls<\/em><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/david-sedaris\/lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls\/9780316154697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">,<\/a> will be out April 23, 2013. \u00a0\u00a0They contain the article that ran in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">The New Yorker<\/em><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">.\u00a0 The audio book also contains an excerpt from the Pimsleur bonus Japanese lesson where you can hear the nuances in pronunciation, and where you too will laugh till it hurts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/paul-pimsleur\/pimsleur-bonus-japanese-lesson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click<\/a> for the Pimsleur track on the Sedaris audio book, <\/strong><\/em><strong>Let&#8217;s Explore Diabetes With Owls<\/strong><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Robert, The audio you sent is one of the funniest things I&#8217;ve ever heard-just perfectly ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[548,56,1946,114,1945],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-method","tag-culture","tag-japanese","tag-news","tag-pimsleur-method","tag-trends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>David Sedaris Laughs! 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