means language industry publishing founded 1963 founder dr. paul pimsleur charles a.s. heinle beverly heinle headquarters concord massachusetts usa area served worldwide key people beverly heinle executive editor products pimsleur language programs owner simon & schuster audio cbs corporation website pimsleur.com pimsleur language programs is an american language learning company that develops and publishes courses based on the pimsleur method . contents 1 history 2 corporate structure 2.1 offices 3 available languages 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit dr. paul pimsleur a professor and expert in applied linguistics and a founding member of the american council on the teaching of foreign languages actfl 1 wrote the original 5 courses speak & read essential greek 1963 speak & read essential french 1964 speak & read essential spanish 1966 german compact 1967 and twi developed for the peace corps 1971 . the programs were originally called a tapeway program . starting in 1969 70 having tried unsuccessfully to market the programs paul gave them to charles a.s. and beverly heinle at the center for curriculum development in philadelphia . the courses were repackaged and marketed as ccd tapeway programs . in 1974 charles heinle bought the rights to pimsleur and set up heinle & heinle enterprises . in the 1980s heinle opened the cassette learning centers a stand in the harvard coop in cambridge ma . prospective users were invited to sit down and experience the pimsleur tape . the pimsleur tapes were published by heinle & heinle enterprises based in concord ma . in 1983 charles heinle introduced sybervision systems founder steven devore to the pimsleur russian program . devore who had used a similar method to learn finnish exclusively licensed the pimsleur programs . devore sold the programs in sybervision s catalogs that were placed in the backseat pockets of major international air carriers and also mailed to 3 million sybervision customers every month . sybervision also produced and successfully sold pimsleur programs via an infomercial that featured beverly pimsleur . sybervision marketed the pimsleur programs until 1997 before the license was sold to simon & schuster . in 1995 simon & schuster took on distribution to bookstores . before heinle & heinle enterprises sold pimsleur to simon & schuster in 1997 they added 27 new languages to the pimsleur catalog . since the acquisition simon & schuster audio has added another 27 languages . pimsleur s catalog currently stands at 59 languages and over 200 courses . the courses are still produced in concord ma and are available as digital audio downloads cds and select languages are now available in interactive software format . in 2005 digital editions of some languages were made available through various resellers . in 2008 pimsleur s first children s line speak spanish with dora & diego was released in coordination with nickelodeon s nick jr. in 2008 playaway is licensed to distribute the entire pimsleur line to the military on pre loaded players . in 2010 pimsleur donated its haitian creole course for free to relief and charity workers after the devastating earthquake in haiti . in 2010 pimsleur partnered with the uso the boston foundation and playaway to produce pashto and dari courses for u.s. troops serving in and being deployed to afghanistan . this course is available for free to all military personnel . operation speak easy 2 was funded by a boston area philanthropist and pimsleur enthusiast . 3 in 2010 pimsleur digital line was relaunched in drm free format and at a new low price . in 2011 pimsleur donated 8 hours of its japanese course to support aid agencies and volunteers in the wake of the tsunami disaster . 4 in 2012 pimsleur released a new interactive software version of their spanish german french and italian courses called pimsleur unlimited . 5 in 2013 pimsleur celebrated its 50th anniversary with the launch of a new blog pimsleur speaks on language learning and culture . 6 in 2013 pimsleur donated 15 lessons of its tagalog course to support aid agencies and volunteers in the wake of typhoon haiyan . 7 corporate structure edit pimsleur language programs is owned by simon & schuster audio a division of simon & schuster which is part of cbs corporation . offices edit corporate headquarters are in new york new york . editorial offices are in concord massachusetts . all courses are developed produced and recorded at this location . available languages edit pimsleur language programs courses are available in the following languages 8 albanian arabic eastern arabic egyptian arabic modern standard armenian eastern armenian western chinese cantonese chinese mandarin croatian czech danish dari afghan persian dutch english for arabic speakers english for chinese cantonese speakers english for chinese mandarin speakers english for farsi persian speakers english for french speakers english for german speakers english for haitian creole speakers english for hindi speakers english for italian speakers english for korean speakers english for portuguese speakers english for russian speakers english for spanish speakers english for vietnamese speakers finnish french german greek haitian creole hebrew hungarian icelandic indonesian irish gaelic italian japanese korean lithuanian norwegian ojibwe pashto persian polish portuguese brazilian portuguese european punjabi romanian russian spanish latin american spanish castilian swahili swedish swiss german tagalog thai turkish twi ukrainian urdu vietnamese see also edit language education references edit american council on the teaching of foreign languages american council on the teaching of foreign languages operation speak easy press release september 13 2010 press release march 24 2011 pimsleur unlimited pimsleur speaks blog 1 pimsleur available languages external links edit official website v t e cbs corporation corporate directors david r. andelman joseph a. califano jr. 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