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Enrico
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03 September 2014 at 2:03am | IP Logged

Tupiniquim wrote:

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!

Collins Spanish with Paul Noble, it in addition uses two native speakers for Spanish and Latin American
pronunciation.
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maydayayday
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07 September 2014 at 5:37pm | IP Logged

ericblair wrote:

boon wrote:

I did Michel Thomas French, German and Spanish.

They're good courses, but it's probably better to have a little knowledge of the
language first . Otherwise you might pick up dodgy pronunciation (although you CAN
correct bad habits later, contrary to what some people think).

His pronunciation is actually okay when he's speaking normally, but when he emphasises
words he sometimes pronounces words rather eccentrically (and I'm not talking about
exaggerated stress, which isn't a problem in my opinion).

I'm grateful to the courses for helping me master certain tricky aspects of the romance
languages' grammar.

What other kind of resource would you say is best to use prior to MT?

Any decent audio phrase book will be very helpful: the weakest point of MT is the shocking lack of vocabulary you are taught. Though this is less of a problem if you speak English and are listening to the courses that MT himself delivered: they also have a 'vocabulary builder@.

I've used MT a lot either as revision, French, Russian, Arabic and German or ab-initio Spanish, Polish

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