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| Languagelover1 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6427 days ago 63 posts - 63 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 121 of 405 24 May 2007 at 6:00am | IP Logged |
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I'm not sure whether Arabic is rocorded yet but is due to be published in September also.
I was speaking with someone who was working on the recordings and transformation of the students on both the Russian and Mandarin sessions is supposed to be phenomenal. Really looking forward to getting my hands on these. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Languagelover1 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6427 days ago 63 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 122 of 405 24 May 2007 at 6:02am | IP Logged |
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I forgot to mention that all of the new courses will involve native speakers as a perfect model for pronunciation, this was a big criticism of MT method previously.
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| Languagelover1 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6427 days ago 63 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 123 of 405 24 May 2007 at 6:41am | IP Logged |
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Some links for people interested in this method
mms://89.234.4.143/MichelMethodHodLrg mms://89.234.4.143/MethodLrg mms://89.234.4.143/MichelInsightBroadband mms://89.234.4.143/MichelLegacyLrg 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| egg_uk Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6416 days ago 203 posts - 204 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 124 of 405 24 May 2007 at 8:38am | IP Logged |
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are the mandarin and russian ones recorded with natives? i knew the vocabulary ones for the other languages were with natives, as they said it was the next step in his whole method. Making Mandarin accessible to the masses would be very impressive, and would tempt me to make that my next language after Spanish. I dont mind the courses starting with non native students but natives could have been brought in, in the advance discs. As its helpful to have other students on a par with you.
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| Languagelover1 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6427 days ago 63 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 125 of 405 24 May 2007 at 10:13am | IP Logged |
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They are still using the two students but there will be a native speaker as a model for pronunciation if the teacher isn't a native speaker his or herself. The Russian course is taught and presented by Natasha Bershadski (Russian native speaker) and in the Mandarin course (according to the blurb on Amazon) Harold Goodman (the author) ".....is assisted by native Mandarin speaker Jingtao Deng"
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| egg_uk Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6416 days ago 203 posts - 204 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 126 of 405 24 May 2007 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
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ah, thats quite good, especially with languages that are so far removed from english, so you remember the words with a better accent, pronunciation, from the start of your learning. Thanks for the info
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| Cage Diglot aka a.ardaschira, Athena, Michael Thomas Senior Member United States Joined 6622 days ago 382 posts - 393 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 127 of 405 25 May 2007 at 2:09am | IP Logged |
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Does Michael Thomas use native speakers for any of his courses or does he speak the languages himself?
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 128 of 405 25 May 2007 at 2:42am | IP Logged |
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As Languagelover1 says (a couple of posts above), the Russian and Mandarin courses have native speakers. Michel Thomas himself was the teacher in the previous ones (German, Spanish, French, Italian), and spoke all languages. He passed away January 8, 2005, but the website doesn't say anything about it...
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