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| coyote Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6243 days ago 32 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 241 of 405 04 March 2009 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A question for Volapuk 49, or anyone who knows:
I've noticed that McGraw-Hill (U.S. publishers of the MT courses)is coming out with new 10-CD Beginner's courses for French and Spanish in May '09. The Amazon.com promotional information says that the courses are the Michel Thomas Method, and that students are taught by a language instructor and a native speaker. If this is true are future courses moving away from the original tapes with MT as teacher? I know this is being done with the new languages (Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, etc.), but was wondering if the trend is also being followed for Spanish, French, German, and Italian--those languages MT personally taught. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 242 of 405 04 March 2009 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Someone commented on the "new edition" on the Michel Thomas board, but Hodder denied that it was anything other than a packaging change, it looks like someone at McGraw-Hill has inappropriately lifted the blurb from one of the newer courses and stuck it on this. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| volapuk49 Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 6268 days ago 73 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Yiddish, Modern Hebrew Studies: Esperanto | Message 243 of 405 04 March 2009 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There are no new Michel Thomas courses by Michel Thomas. Whatever is out is all that is available.
The new language courses in the Michel Thomas series as published by Hodder and then, later, republished by McGraw-Hill, are by other teachers. There are no new courses for the major European languages which Michel Thomas recorded. He died in 2005 and all the courses recorded prior to that date have been released. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rollo the Cat Groupie United States Joined 6035 days ago 77 posts - 90 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Russian, Ancient Greek | Message 244 of 405 05 March 2009 at 1:04am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, but the question was, are there new courses, by new teachers in the original four languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zorglub Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 7001 days ago 441 posts - 504 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin | Message 245 of 405 05 March 2009 at 1:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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For French speakers, yes :
http://www.harraps-audio.harrap.com/ There are 3 courses for French speakers , that use native (Spanish and I suppose, Italian)or near-native (French) speakers. There is also a Mandarin course for French Speakers !!! ("débutant")
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| zorglub Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 7001 days ago 441 posts - 504 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin | Message 246 of 405 05 March 2009 at 1:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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VOLAPUK ,
I just noticed there is a MT Chinese program for french speakers. Is that an adaptation of your course ? Same Chinese speaker ? real students or actors mimicking the real students from your course ? http://www.harraps-audio.harrap.com/methode-pages/methode-ch inois-deb.html Cheers 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| volapuk49 Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 6268 days ago 73 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Yiddish, Modern Hebrew Studies: Esperanto | Message 247 of 405 05 March 2009 at 1:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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The Harrap Mandarin course is a translation into French of the course I did in English. Actors are used for all of
the roles. I was never informed of the existence of this course until long after it was available. There is another Harrap course for French-speakers to learn English. This is a scripted course which is actually based on a Michel Thomas course to teach French-speakers English. The original tape with him doing all of the teaching was transcribed and the new version is done with actors. The French courses using the MT method ( Spanish, etc.) are all translations of the original MT English language courses. Except for the vocabulary courses of Rose Hayden for the original four European languages I do not know of any others by other teachers. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zorglub Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 7001 days ago 441 posts - 504 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin | Message 248 of 405 05 March 2009 at 1:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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Actually, why not try and listen to the frst hour:
http://www.harraps-audio.harrap.com/methode-pages/extraits-l angues.html The Italian teacher is native (my guess from her accent). The students in the "perfectionnement" course have an amazingly good pronunciation for beginners, in the lesson I'm listening to. Mandarin is an adaptation of Harry Goodman's Mandarin course, they kept the original student and Chinese native speaker recordings EDIT: Well PROBABLY NOT). They changed "ing wo gen" (bloodu English) "for fa gwo gen" (frog) in one course, oeuf corse. The Spanish speaker and teacher or actor mimicking Michel Thomas , who is native, has a very nice voice and pronunciation. The method worked very well with my son although he had to go to Spain before he had finished the "Débutant" course. I expect them to make a German course or us French speakers in due time.
Edited by zorglub on 05 March 2009 at 5:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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