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Michel Thomas Foundation Course: French (Michel Thomas Series) by: Michel Thomas List Price: £69.99 Price: £34.90 You Save: £35.09 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 9780340938911 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0340938919 Label: Hodder Arnold Manufacturer: Hodder Arnold Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: September 29, 2006 Publisher: Hodder Arnold Studio: Hodder Arnold Sales Rank: 3828 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - BRILLIANTI learnt more from the first CD than from five years at school. Without doubt this is the easiest and most effective way to learn French. I recently returned from France on a family holiday. I certainly had more confidence than ever before when speaking French. You are advised to pause the CD and try things out for yourself before the students attempt it, but to be honest you can usually get there before them. I've used the CDs in the car and when out jogging, with no need to pause. If I had to find a groan it would be at the 'not so good' student. Sometimes you get the feeling that she isn't listening and is in her own little world. There are times when I think Michel is thinking the same thing about her. If you're serious about ... Read More: Rating: - A very very clever man indeed Let me start with on a good point and say that michels technique is a true work of art Its only when you have listened to the tapes a few times(and you will need to in order to completely digest it) that you realise how clever he is at making his point. It really is as close as you can get to painless language tuition. When I had ingested this course i was convinced that I could speek fluent french,however it is only the introductory course so you will be needing the avanced course after.Which is also exellent,and much more involved. Now for the bad bit: I can not for the life of me understand how Michel could have let the course be published with the female american student!! SHE IS A MORON. I have never ... Read More: Rating: - I want to recommend this particular courseThis audio course is very important for someone who wants to learn to speak French. Many of the other materials on offer may not be very helpful because they seem to start at a level too difficult, like trying to reach the bottom rung of a ladder and finding it too high, the student is likely to give up. This course fills this very crucial gap and if you have tried before to learn a foreign language and decided you cannot quite make it, then this is the course for you! I was delighted with it for making something achievable that was before potentially too difficult for me. There are minor criticisms which you can pick up from reading some of the other reviews but I would say this is not the important part. What is important is that this course is a ... Read More: Rating:  - Great System.....Shame about the students!I bought the full 8 hour version, having looked at the other reviews. I am quite well into the course at present, and I'm learning so much more with this than I ever did with the horrible dry grammatical way we were taught at school. Confidence is built up very quickly as Mr Thomas reveals some very easy to remember rules about the thousands of English words with French origin, and how to 're-convert' them back to French. This gives the student a huge stating vocabulary (vocabulaire). The system then uses these words by phrasing sentences in certain ways. The use of 2 'students' is a good idea, but unfortunately Mr Thomas appears almost as a misogynist, as it is always the female student who gets mixed up, or forgets words completely....allowing ... Read More: Rating: - FantasticI have learned more spoken French from these CDs than in seven years at school which culminated in a decent A level, even though I'm not a natural linguist. I had a fair grasp of vocabulary although I took the A level over 30 years' ago but always lacked confidence in spoken French. What I really liked about it was that I could actually follow it quite well and it made me feel really confident. I found myself looking forward to the next CD rather than regarding it as something I ought to do. I would heartily recommend this and Michel Thomas, who spoke seven languages fluently, seemed like an amazing man - he was born in Poland, fought in the French Resistance and became a US citizen. If you want to learn French, I think this would be a great starting point. |
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