Pimsleur language learning system, is it any good?

I just bought the Pimsleur Polish Comprehensive CD set... 30 lessons. I borrowed the first ten lessons from the library and it seems to be working for me. I did the "torrent" thing, but there is a problems with that! Not only is it, well, stealing, but we vote with our dollars, and I'd like to see the publisher issue the second and third sets (for a total of 90 lessons). I think they will only do that if the first thirty lessons sell well. If we all download the stuff, it might hurt our chances of seeing more advanced sets.

My Polish boyfriend laughs at me when I practice with him because he says that the formality of the phrases on the programme arent used that much any more....not really the result i was hoping for :D

Apparently "pan/pani" and the other more formal ways of addressing people arent going to be that useful to me when we go and stay with his family and meet his friends back in Poland.

Plus I am English and because I didnt look into the programme properly i didnt reallise it is aimed towards Americans but of course aint a problem :)

Other than that it's a really good programme and the memory techniques are amazing....the stuff just sticks in your mind if you give it your full attention. Definately one to buy...(mine fell off the back of a website too!) ;)

I listened once to a Pimsleur lesson.
I thought it odd that "ą" and "ę" are pronounced as "a" and "e" respectively. Perhaps accented characters frighten the Americans...

Let us know how you find the entire Pimsleur course StaryDom when you reach lesson 30.