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Tupiniquim
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20 February 2014 at 9:10pm | IP Logged 
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!
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Diglot
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20 February 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged 
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).

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fabriciocarraro
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20 February 2014 at 10:31pm | IP Logged 
Definitely Paul Noble.
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Tupiniquim
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20 February 2014 at 11:28pm | IP Logged 
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.
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21 February 2014 at 1:10am | IP Logged 
Just out of curiosity, have you tried Michel Thomas for Russian? It's pretty good!
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Tupiniquim
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21 February 2014 at 8:25am | IP Logged 
fabriciocarraro wrote:
Just out of curiosity, have you tried Michel Thomas for Russian? It's pretty good!


Not yet, just French and German foundation. I will get to it as soon as I finish German advanced+builder.
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24 February 2014 at 12:14am | IP Logged 
fabriciocarraro wrote:
Just out of curiosity, have you tried Michel Thomas for Russian? It's pretty good!


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.
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24 February 2014 at 12:20am | IP Logged 
Random review wrote:
fabriciocarraro wrote:
Just out of curiosity, have you tried Michel Thomas for Russian? It's pretty good!


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.


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.


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