BenBart Newbie Netherlands Joined 5099 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Dutch*
| Message 1 of 10 08 December 2010 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
Hello,
I'm doing the Michel Thomas audio Spanish course. I like it but it would be nice that besides listing to the lessons i also could read the lessons.
has anybody got the listing lessons in text?
thank you
Bart
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7143 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 2 of 10 08 December 2010 at 11:59am | IP Logged |
There was an old Geocities site that had transcripts for the original Michel Thomas courses, but it departed with Geocities. You can still find at least some of the transcripts from the Wayback Machine, though:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071103082229/http://geocities.c om/joekane765/
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Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh
| Message 3 of 10 08 December 2010 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
It's a bad idea.
Stick with the audio, then when you're finished learn to read with other materials.
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BenBart Newbie Netherlands Joined 5099 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Dutch*
| Message 4 of 10 30 April 2011 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
what other materials?
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jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5417 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian
| Message 5 of 10 01 May 2011 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
Assimil Spanish With Ease would probably be a good bet as a next step, you will get
plenty of pretty natural content in it compared to most courses. The only problem is it
seems the content of the currently available Spanish With Ease course available for
English speakers has not been updated since 1987. If you speak French as well though to
a decent level perhaps you could get the most recent course with the base language in
French instead of English. I think they may have updated editions for a couple of other
languages, Italian and Portuguese I believe.
It is best to go through the MT courses in audio first then if you want to browse
through some of it textually you can read through the accompanying booklets later which
list all the words and phrases taught in order with some very brief grammatical
explanations. The main thing about MT though is don't worry if you forget some of the
vocabulary, as long as you remember how to use the rules and that if you said something
wrong but when you hear the answer you understand what you did wrong and why the
correct answer was correct then you are doing fine.
If you don't have the booklets you can download them from here:
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tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5190 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean
| Message 6 of 10 01 May 2011 at 7:06am | IP Logged |
Another idea that I picked up from a post a while back was to get the Practice Makes Perfect workbooks on Spanish verb tenses and pronouns. Those will reinforce much of the grammar that is taught in the Michel Thomas courses. In my case I bought the kindle versions and work through a little bit of each once every few days as a supplement to my main learning effort which right now is Assimil.
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dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5021 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 7 of 10 02 May 2011 at 2:21am | IP Logged |
I started out with Michel Thomas, and am now doing Assimil.
Personally, I really wish I had done Asiimil at the same time. Michel Thomas is great, but you can get right through that course in less than a week, and there are fundamentals that are just not taught ( Days of the Week, Numbers etc).
I find that re-doing MT at various points helps, because the more Spanish you learn, the more the rules you learn in MT seem to make sense.
I hope these comments are of some use to you, and I wish you the best of luck!
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BenBart Newbie Netherlands Joined 5099 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Dutch*
| Message 8 of 10 02 May 2011 at 1:36pm | IP Logged |
Thank you for you reply's:) i'm going to find out if the comments work for me:)
Peace love and unity
BB
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