joekane Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6661 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 41 of 405 28 August 2006 at 10:13am | IP Logged |
I have just spent six weeks transcribing all of Michel Thomas's courses; so perhaps some of you polyglots can read them and find lots of mistakes for me to correct.
http://www.geocities.com/michel_thomas_transcript/index.html
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lengua Senior Member United States polyglottery.wordpre Joined 6682 days ago 549 posts - 595 votes Studies: French, Italian, Spanish, German
| Message 42 of 405 28 August 2006 at 10:22am | IP Logged |
That will help a lot of people.
Personally, the MT tapes are my favorite way of spending my first 30 or so hours with the language. The beginner courses get you speaking and constructing your own sentences in present and past and future tenses, while the advanced courses teach - in detail - every spoken tense in the language. I understood Spanish tenses better after 10 hours in the advanced course than I ever did in 4.5 years of schooling. I'm currently learning the French tenses through his advanced course in that, and after I finish his Italian beginner course twice, I will begin the advanced course in that language.
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 43 of 405 28 August 2006 at 10:40am | IP Logged |
Lengua's correct, it will help quite a few people. You must have had some spare time on your hands! Maybe you should think about the Pimsleur courses next... ;)
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braveb Senior Member United States languageprograms.blo Joined 7195 days ago 264 posts - 263 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 44 of 405 28 August 2006 at 11:22pm | IP Logged |
Those transcripts are perhaps the one of the best finds on this forum.
Many thanks.
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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 45 of 405 29 August 2006 at 4:35am | IP Logged |
I noticed that the transcripts are written in xhtml, which my browser doesn't open - just save/ignore, and when opening the saved file in IE (6.0) only the regular xhtml code is shown.
Any suggestions?
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Walshy Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6940 days ago 335 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German
| Message 46 of 405 29 August 2006 at 5:29am | IP Logged |
joekane wrote:
I have just spent six weeks transcribing all of Michel Thomas's courses; so perhaps some of you polyglots can read them and find lots of mistakes for me to correct. |
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Good work with the transcripts, that would have been quite a task, thanks.
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joekane Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6661 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 47 of 405 29 August 2006 at 12:25pm | IP Logged |
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
I noticed that the transcripts are written in xhtml, which my browser doesn't open - just save/ignore, and when opening the saved file in IE (6.0) only the regular xhtml code is shown.
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Yes, apparently .xhtml files are difficult for people to read when they use IE 6.0; but it's the only way I could convert my Open Office document into a webpage that looks roughly the same.
If anyone knows how I can do this without resorting to .xhtml, I will change the site.
In the mean time, you can read the transcripts by using a better browser: Mozilla Firefox (www.mozilla.com) is what I use. I will email the original documents (in Microsoft .doc / rich text / Open Office formats) to anyone who asks for them.
Edited by joekane on 29 August 2006 at 12:26pm
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joekane Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6661 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 48 of 405 29 August 2006 at 12:28pm | IP Logged |
patuco wrote:
Lengua's correct, it will help quite a few people. You must have had some spare time on your hands! Maybe you should think about the Pimsleur courses next... ;) |
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I would like to (for the sake of completeness), but I'm working on an improvement to them, and at the moment that takes up all my time.
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