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| owverysweet Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 3662 days ago 18 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Polish*, English | Message 1 of 7 10 January 2015 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
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Hello,
I want to ask you guys what level I would represent after Michel Thomas courses. After Foundation, Advanced, Vocabulary and Builder. Can I watch TV ordinary or here would be a problem? Greetings 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arnaud25 Diglot Senior Member France Joined 3842 days ago 129 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 7 10 January 2015 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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I would say A2 after listening to Foundation, Advanced and Vocab.
Being able to watch TV after listening to MT is impossible according to my experience. I use MT as an introduction to Assimil: MT gives the basic grammar, Assimil expands the vocabulary, the two are working well together. But watching TV or speaking with a native after listening to MT is really optimistic :) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4047 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3 of 7 12 January 2015 at 8:17pm | IP Logged |
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A1, not more. A2 is the minimum to understand very basic resources and with solely MT one fails miserably. Edited by tristano on 13 January 2015 at 11:09pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4889 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 4 of 7 12 January 2015 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
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I love Michel Thomas, and think it's a great intro to a new language. Or at least, I
think the Foundation and Advanced courses are. But I don't think you would even reach A1 with just MT. Alliance Française estimates that A1 takes 60 to 100 hours of instruction, and A2 will take 160 to 200 hours. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 7 12 January 2015 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
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Not yet A1 - and ordinary TV is a very long way off.
But it is a valuable foundation for starting a language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 6 of 7 13 January 2015 at 12:57am | IP Logged |
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I agree with the others that it wouldn't even get you to a solid A1. It does, however, give you a really solid foundation in structure.
But there are so many other basic, daily things that MT just doesn't cover and you need to look elsewhere for them. Things that you would need to even walk into a corner store and buy stuff, like numbers, quantities, basic items, etc. But most of that is just vocabulary, and I've always maintained that vocabulary is the easiest thing to come to terms with. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5036 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 7 of 7 14 January 2015 at 1:12am | IP Logged |
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You should start Assimil, it will get you closer to your goals than MT but it will also take a lot more dedication. Good luck.
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