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| Huliganov Octoglot Senior Member Poland huliganov.tvRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5356 days ago 91 posts - 304 votes  Speaks: English*, Polish, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Esperanto, Czech Studies: Romanian, Turkish, Mandarin, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 305 of 405 01 November 2010 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
Cost? What cost? Haven't you heard of Quentin Torrentino? 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Huliganov Octoglot Senior Member Poland huliganov.tvRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5356 days ago 91 posts - 304 votes Speaks: English*, Polish, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Esperanto, Czech Studies: Romanian, Turkish, Mandarin, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 306 of 405 01 November 2010 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
This is a problem on the Chinese one, the limey girl student has this really horny cut glass accent which is a tad distracting, but she can't say "pengyou" or "zhongguo" for tofu! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Monte Cristo Newbie United States Joined 5182 days ago 26 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* | Message 307 of 405 17 December 2010 at 3:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Has anybody completed MT Foundational, Advance, and Vocabulary for Russian? Are all six cases covered?
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 308 of 405 17 December 2010 at 4:14am | IP Logged | |||||
Someone (ellasevia, I think) posted in another thread that yes, they are covered for nouns and a couple are covered for adjectives. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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| TerryW Senior Member United States Joined 6358 days ago 370 posts - 783 votes Speaks: English* | Message 310 of 405 22 February 2011 at 2:12am | IP Logged | |||||
I just searched for "Michel Thomas" on overstock.com and got this:
Are Michel Thomas seekers caving in on learning languages, or did MT come out with new "dumbed down" versions? ;-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 311 of 405 22 February 2011 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
I know Michel talked about verbs on two tracks, but this probably pushes the analogy. :-) 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
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Not the least of Thomas's misdeeds, though, was the fact that he went along with, and over the years gained a great deal of money from, the "French" affair. See the following news item:
Sarkozy admits French language a hoax after Wikileaks exposé After yesterday’s Wikileaks revelations, Nicolas Sarkozy has today confirmed that the “French language” is indeed a one thousand year old hoax. The president of France revealed that what purported to be his native tongue was in fact complete gibberish, admitting the French really speak English, except in the presence of the British. This comes as Wikileaks published cables sent by French diplomats to countries such as Spain, China and Russia which were all found to be written in English. During a speech given in received pronunciation, the French President came clean, stating that it all started off as a joke during William the Conquerer’s invasion to make the aggressors seem a bit more exotic. “What was initially a prank snowballed and after a few years we realised we’d look silly revealing the truth, so we had to keep up the façade,” said the Premier. “In the company of any Brits we would try to make convincingly “French” sounds, a mixture of guttural grunts and rapid-fire syllables. But as soon as we were on our own we’d all heave a huge sigh of relief and revert to English. We developed a heavy reliance on hand gestures to cover up when we ran out of likely noises, and the shrug was a particular boon if inspiration dried up. In the end we became quite the raconteurs, with an impressive array of supposed vocabulary. So what began as a game for the élites, became a hobby across all levels of society, and it shocked us that the Brits were so naïve as to not see through the charade.” Sarkozy claims Wikileaks will soon expose a number of other “languages”. “I mean, seriously guys, has anyone ever actually listened to “Arabic”? Je ne sais pas…..” 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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