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| wky92hk Newbie Hong Kong Joined 5688 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Cantonese* | Message 1 of 4 19 June 2009 at 8:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I just know it's relaxing learning, but I don't understand how to do that actually
and, is it workable in English learning? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rlf1810 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6342 days ago 122 posts - 173 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Slovak | Message 2 of 4 19 June 2009 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
The Michel Thomas courses are an all-audio introduction to a language. The focus is on being able to build your own sentences, rather than learning set phrases, and Michel states first thing that you are not supposed to try and remember things. That the responsibility for learning is with the teacher, not the student. The CD's are divided into dozens of lessons which are on average about 7 minutes each. During each lesson, you listen to Michel teaching two other students. He teaches new words and then gives the students a model sentence in English, which they are to repeat in the target language. You're instructed to pause the CD/MP3 player at this point and respond yourself, before listening to the student responses. In this way you are supposed to assimilate grammar patterns without really realizing it. After doing all the levels of any given course, you should be around a low-intermediate level I would say. Hope I've cleared everything up for you. -Robert 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 3 of 4 19 June 2009 at 4:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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The principles behind Thomas's work can be applied to any language, but it's more the job for a teacher than for the learner -- you need to understand a language fairly well before you can devise the rules for teaching it.
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| wky92hk Newbie Hong Kong Joined 5688 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Cantonese* | Message 4 of 4 20 June 2009 at 9:32am | IP Logged | ||
thanks for your detailed explanation, it's amazing I want to learn English with Michel Thomas Method Have any books and CD for Learning English are using this method? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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