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| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5418 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 10 of 47 13 May 2011 at 10:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
Just remember that not everyone likes or dislikes the same methods. I see you dislike MT's courses which is fair enough and I agree that does not have good pronunciation, but he does have a very useful method of presenting the main building blocks of a language and having you use them in constructing your own sentences in many tenses in a short space of time and it works well for many people. Evidently Woody Allen liked it as did the dozens of other celebrities he taught languages to otherwise MT would not have gained the recognition he did. Edited by jazzboy.bebop on 13 May 2011 at 11:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 11 of 47 13 May 2011 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Oh God, stop with the quote nesting!
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| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5418 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 12 of 47 13 May 2011 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ha ha, yeah it is getting a bit out of hand. Sorted for my last post. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 13 of 47 14 May 2011 at 2:04am | IP Logged | |||||
Actually, I was noticing that the kids actually were sleepy. Even while the camera (and the other lady?) were there. But anyone would be sleepy and brain dead after 9 hours. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 14 of 47 14 May 2011 at 2:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think it takes a lot of guts to impose your unorthodox method onto students. If you
tell an average student coming for lessons that you will be teaching orally only, for sessions of several hours at a time, most would not be willing to try, and certainly not to invest a lot of money into such a thing. It's a different niche of sorts. I have a student who wants to meet for an hour, once a week or every second week. I could teach orally the way Michel Thomas does it, but how can I possibly do that for an hour a week? There is no doubt that teaching a person structures, making them speak, forcing them to make predictions and creating new sentences from previously learned structures works, but unfortunately, it's not an approach that is applicable in most settings. Part of the success is perhaps to find students willing to try that approach. It was nice to see the students all sitting comfortably in the dimly lit room, but I wonder if this might not work equally well while walking (not with a group, obviously). After all, some of the students were practically falling asleep. If I lived in a large city, I always wondered if there wouldn't be a market for people wanting to take such oral classes while walking or commuting to work. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| megazver Triglot Newbie Lithuania Joined 5994 days ago 34 posts - 52 votes Speaks: Lithuanian, Russian*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Polish | Message 16 of 47 14 May 2011 at 12:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
I admire your casual mastery of passive-aggression. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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