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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 345 of 405 03 February 2012 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have no problems at all accessing the web page in Google Chrome (though I've had some difficulties opening the actual transcript files in IE).
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| Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4702 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 346 of 405 07 February 2012 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Anyone know if a Korean course is planned ?
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| Fenn Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4892 days ago 51 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 347 of 405 07 February 2012 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone else have a problem with the mouth noises he makes in MT Italian? I dont know
how to describe it accurately, like the noise someone makes when eating but he (MT) doesnt have any food in his mouth (put your tongue to the top of your mouth and then kind of suck it back down, if that makes any sense). Its an annoying noise in real life but with head phones on its disgusting, i couldn't go any further with the course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 348 of 405 08 February 2012 at 12:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Then you quit an excellent course because you didn't like the sound of the false teeth of
a man in his 80s. :-) Please reconsider. :-/ Edited by Random review on 08 February 2012 at 1:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 349 of 405 08 February 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||
Actually, I think it's a microphone problem. The Polish courses suffer from the same thing. You can hear every bit of moisture from the teacher's mouth, and it DOES get annoying. That said, the content is good. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 350 of 405 08 February 2012 at 1:25am | IP Logged | ||
Michel Thomas has a Facebook page where you can ask the company questions. A few months ago (just after they released their repackaged courses) I asked about any new courses coming out and they flat out said NO new courses were on the table. Seems like a suicidal thing for a company to publicly say, but there ya go. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 351 of 405 08 February 2012 at 3:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I had no problems with quality in the Russian courses. I don't like MT in the German
courses, because his accent is not German, and it gets rather annoying. Hopefully they will do another German course without MT in it. The main problem I have with the MT course is the annoying students. German and Russian students are really awful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 352 of 405 08 February 2012 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Could be, hrhenry, never heard the Polish course, but I always thought it was the sound
of his false teeth. Whatever the noises were, I always found his little human eccentricities like that quite endearing (I even found myself for a while copying that little "u-hum" sound he used to make, whenever I tried to explain something complex to someone by breaking it into smaller chunks and getting them to put them back together*, does anyone else remember that sound?). OK, so you find it annoying, we're all different, I hope you can get over this and finish the course, Fenn. I found the random long silences in some Assimil courses amazingly annoying, but I haven't let that put me off using their excellent courses. @ zekecoma: Michel Thomas' German accent is not perfect, he wasn't native, but I believe it was very good (hopefully someone can confirm that). I don't think it matters, though. If you can tell that his accent is not 100% German then why are you using a beginner's course? * A method I ripped off from him (apparently complete with mannerisms at first!) and which worked rather better than my old method of repeating the same explanation several times and then concluding that the person I was talking to was stupid (far too many people do this!). It is so clear to me that, barring major brain trauma, he was right...there's no such thing as a bad student only a bad teacher (or- he should have added- just as often a good teacher forced by their job to teach a bad curriculum in a bad way). Edit: I should just add that I've not actually mastered this method of explaining things and am not a teacher let alone a good one, I just know good ones and bad ones when I have to have someone show me how to do something. Edited by Random review on 08 February 2012 at 4:57am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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