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| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6087 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 1 of 34 20 February 2014 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi all!
Just wondering if there are any other audio language teaching programs that are similar to Michel Thomas' courses in the aspect of being more of a conversation about the language, with mistakes allowed, rather than a cold/dry robotic delivery. Thanks in advance! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5787 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 2 of 34 20 February 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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languagetransfer.org (only Greek, Spanish and English for Spanish speakers so far). I did the Greek course
and strongly preferred it to Hodder & Stoughton's attempt. His method owes a lot to Thomas (and he admits that); but I think he may even have improved Thomas' method in some respects. Alaric Hall's icelandic course is supposed to be modelled on Thomas' work. I haven't tried it though, Icelandic is not one of my target languages. He's a pretty cool guy and his YouTube videos are great. If his Icelandic course is half as good... Maybe Paul Noble (dunno, never tried him). Edited by Random review on 20 February 2014 at 9:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4719 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 3 of 34 20 February 2014 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Definitely Paul Noble.
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| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6087 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 4 of 34 20 February 2014 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thank you guys, I'll definitely look into your suggestions.
I guess I should've been more specific in my original post about the languages. The target languages I'm looking for are French/German/Russian. The languages I can understand are English/Spanish/Portuguese. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4719 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 5 of 34 21 February 2014 at 1:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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Just out of curiosity, have you tried Michel Thomas for Russian? It's pretty good!
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| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6087 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 6 of 34 21 February 2014 at 8:25am | IP Logged | |||||
Not yet, just French and German foundation. I will get to it as soon as I finish German advanced+builder. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5787 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 7 of 34 24 February 2014 at 12:14am | IP Logged | |||||
Is it? I saw some bad reviews on Amazon. I'd love to hear that they're wrong as I'm so curious about the Slavic languages that I'd happily take a week off work (and German) to work through it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4719 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 8 of 34 24 February 2014 at 12:20am | IP Logged | |||||
Really? Well, I liked pretty much all the Michel Thomas courses that I've taken so far (Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, the beginning of French). It might have to do with the fact that Russian is a harder language, gramatically speaking, with all the cases and exceptions. But I liked it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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