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| Welltravelled Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5865 days ago 46 posts - 72 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 1 of 15 10 November 2010 at 11:21am | IP Logged | ||
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There seems to be an entire series of new Michel Thomas courses coming out. Has anyone else heard of them?
They are all called "Perfect [name of language] with the Michel Thomas Method" Here is the link on amazon to the German one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-German-Michel-Thomas-Method/ dp/1444133098 I'm wondering how different it is to the current Michel Thomas German course I'm using. It comes out next April. This is the content it lists, which seems to be the same for the other languages the course is coming out in (French, Spanish and Italian). What do you all think? Here's the description: Take your competence in German to an advanced level with the Michel Thomas Method. Effortlessly learn complex grammar structures and expand your vocabulary to speak German confidently and fluently in all situations. Listen, connect and speak German and learn all you need to converse fluently and confidently in many different situations: social, business, formal and informal. How does it work? - LISTEN - collect words effortlessly by listening - CONNECT - create your own mental tool kit by understanding how the words fit together - SPEAK - put the words back together to build sentences, naturally Why should I choose it? - Guaranteed success - speak and understand perfectly - Incredible progress - get what you want, fast - Absolute confidence - unleash your natural learning style without trying How far will I get? - A high level of competence, equivalent to A-level and beyond - Confident, fluent and grammatically correct in all situations, with a wide vocabulary to draw on 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6014 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 15 10 November 2010 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nothing on the official website (although that said they've still got the Greek Introductory Course in the "forthcoming titles" section with an estimated date of May 2009)...
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| Welltravelled Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5865 days ago 46 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 3 of 15 10 November 2010 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, that can't be a good sign.
Maybe amazon has got it wrong. Edited by Welltravelled on 10 November 2010 at 6:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5672 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 15 10 November 2010 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Maybe, but Waterstones has it too 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Welltravelled Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5865 days ago 46 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 5 of 15 10 November 2010 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Who gives this sort of information to these websites? The publisher? Wholesalers? If it is the publisher, I suppose there must be some truth in it.
What sort of course could it be though? Is it for people who have already finished the other Michel Thomas courses? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5672 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 6 of 15 10 November 2010 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
The publisher. One of my friends is an author of textbooks. He discussed the possibility of writing a new textbook with his publisher, with a rough outline of the theme, a very preliminary title, and a plucked-from-the-air deadline. Before he had written even the first word of the book, he was surprised to find it already on Amazon. He never actually wrote the book. Apparently, many of these "coming soon" books on Amazon never actually materialise. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Welltravelled Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5865 days ago 46 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 7 of 15 10 November 2010 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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That's depressing although also interesting.
So it must mean that they at least considered the idea. I wonder what the idea was exactly. The course is quite expensive. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5786 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 8 of 15 10 November 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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What a terribly vague description! If they ever do publish them I'll be faced with a dilemma, I would willingly pay 80+ pounds for the French version IF it were as good as the original MT courses and IF it covered material beyond the current "Advanced Course"; but if it's of the same quality as Hodder's post MT courses (except the Dutch one, which I loved) and/or rehashes old material then no way!
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