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| fsc Senior Member United States Joined 6330 days ago 100 posts - 117 votes  Studies: French | Message 33 of 185 12 May 2008 at 6:34am | IP Logged | ||
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You can go to the Michel Thomas Fan Discussion Forum from this page. Edited by fsc on 12 May 2008 at 6:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6081 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 34 of 185 12 May 2008 at 10:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Im already there (bleydh) but thanks anyway
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| jshew Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6061 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 35 of 185 13 May 2008 at 8:42am | IP Logged | ||
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just gonna throw my 2 cents in here....i recently picked up his German and french programs at the local library, i must say they are great. i've used the pimsleur programs before which are good but can get a bit overwhelming with the memorization. michel says to not memorize or review any of the material you hear in his program but rather just let it sink in and become knowledge, and it seems to work. for some reason i seem to remember everything in michel's program without even thinking about how to say a certain phrase, it just comes naturally. michel's program also explains about the language structure. for example in the beginning of his German program michel explains how the German language is similar to the old English sentence structure as well as the whole German/english consonant strings where the English t is a German d etc... most other language programs just throw you into the language without explaining anything. def. worth checking out imo.
edit: only con to me is that the students screw up sometimes and it gets a bit annoying you just wanna scream at them haha. Edited by jshew on 13 May 2008 at 8:51am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| urbanstereotype Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6615 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Arabic (Written), Japanese, Tagalog | Message 36 of 185 14 May 2008 at 10:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I stared with Michel Thomas very recently and find it the best language program available today!
It is so much better than Pimsleaur, I have learned so much from just one week using the Michel Thomas meathod then any other language program. I would recommend it to anyone, Lets just hope that they bring out some more languages soon! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fsc Senior Member United States Joined 6330 days ago 100 posts - 117 votes Studies: French | Message 37 of 185 17 June 2008 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I liked his French foundation course but I hate his advanced French course. He doesn't seem to teach as much. He just asks the students, who apparently have more knowledge in French than what his foundation course gives, "how do you say". Then he dissects it down 5000 different ways which does nothing but confuse me. I had things down solid from his foundation course which now completely confuse me. It wouldn't be so bad but it seems like he is trying to teach me 5000 different ways to say things I will never need to say.
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| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6081 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 38 of 185 18 June 2008 at 2:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I have bought and completed a few courses in several languages now, and I find them amazing.
So, thank you to everyone here who reccommended it TEL 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| madass88 Diglot Groupie NorwayRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6069 days ago 83 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 39 of 185 18 June 2008 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||
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couldn't sleep last night, so i put on the french course (which i have never done before) and before i knew it, i was on track 8 of cd 3, and it was getting pretty late=P
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| risby Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6339 days ago 30 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Italian, Spanish | Message 40 of 185 18 June 2008 at 4:59am | IP Logged | ||
This seems like the wrong way to think about it to me. He's not giving you phrases to say but teaching the construction rules of the language. Do you mean you'll never need to use the past tense? Other courses teach phrases to use in the restaurant or at the hotel reception and are extremely limited by that but Michel Thomas explicitly avoids that and also leaves vocabulary for you to acquire at your leisure. He teaches grammar simply. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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