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| KimG Diglot Groupie Norway Joined 4787 days ago 88 posts - 104 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Portuguese, Swahili | Message 1 of 3 08 January 2012 at 7:26pm | IP Logged |
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I got a question about the Michel Thomas German courses: How is the accent used there? How is it compared to standard High German? Is it more like in German, or closer to the Austrian with more "spanish" like R's, compared to the uvular R's in Germany?
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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5593 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 2 of 3 08 January 2012 at 8:25pm | IP Logged |
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If you don't mind my advice don't worry about that, just do the course quickly and then
move onto more authentic materials. At that point you can start worrying about accent. The course is designed to teach you a great deal of grammar quickly and painlessly, something it does very well. It is also designed to get you to recognise and produce sounds in German that don't exist in standard English, something it does fairly OK. It will not teach you a good accent and anyway you're not meant to spend more than a short time on it (between a couple of days and a couple of weeks to finish both levels (13 hours), depending on how much time you can spare). Edited by Random review on 08 January 2012 at 8:50pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5821 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 3 of 3 09 January 2012 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
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MT was not from Germany, and by the time the course was recorded he was almost 90 (so most probably wearing false teeth).
As Random Review says, the strength of MT is not in accent, but in making the sounds consciously different and clear. Think of it as a foundation -- the bad accent won't hurt you in the long term (the whole course isn't even 24 hours of your life), but the well-defined structure will leave you better able to learn the accent properly later on. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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