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 Message 33 of 33
17 April 2011 at 6:13pm | IP Logged 
The courses not done by MT himself were edited down. I recall being told this on the MT fan forum by the commissioning editor, Ginny Catmur. She said that the students made lots of silly errors and asked lots of questions that would have made the recordings long and boring. I don't think she responded to my suggestion that the reason that they made those errors was because they hadn't been taught properly, and that they were missing the point of what MT himself did.... :-)

Anyway, given all that, any student question isn't scripted, but they have made a conscious decision to include it, and we don't know what the questions they left out were.


As an aside...

I seem to recall Ginny also admitting that the male student on the MT German Foundation knew a little German already (which actually was to his disadvantage, as he kept making mispronouncing the V in verstehen as /v/ instead of /f/...

She also said that the students on the Dutch course already spoke German (which is completely obvious from the fact that they keep trying to say "ich" instead of "ik", "nicht" instead of "niet" etc.).


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