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Michel Thomas Method: Italian Vocabulary Course (Michel Thomas Series) by: Michel Thomas List Price: £30.00 Price: £14.99 You Save: £15.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 9780340939833 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0340939834 Label: Hodder Arnold Manufacturer: Hodder Arnold Publication Date: May 25, 2007 Publisher: Hodder Arnold Studio: Hodder Arnold Sales Rank: 170621 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - DisappointingI'm a big fan of the Michel Thomas series and love his recordings. However this 'addition' to the series is very disappointing primarily for the reasons cited by other reviewers - poor pronunciation on the part of the presenter/teacher. Why couldn't they have found a presenter who is genuinely bilingual? I really tried to get through the set but couldn't take it any more after two discs. Rating: - Good - but with reservationsI've been learning Italian for a few years now and have the Michel Thomas advanced course which is very helpful on the grammer side of things. I bought this vocabulary course a few months ago but have only just got around to using it. It is an excellent course but agree very much with the previous reviewer as regards some of the pronunciation - the pronunciation of words ending "e" seems to me particularly bad - and I'm no expert really. Buy the course by all means, its certainly helps with learning construction of sentences and building vocabulary, but only copy the pronuciation of the native speakers. Rating:  - Method good, pronunciation terribleStephen Pinksley's review above contains a lot of useful information which should help you decide whether this course is for you or not. In my opinion, there is one problem which anyone thinking about buying this ought to be aware of: the pronunciation. Before I elaborate on this let me first say that I am a great admirer of the essence of the Michel Thomas method. I think it encourages the student to start to think in a foreign language much more quickly than most other methods I've come across; it also fosters tru understanding of the structure of the language by making sure the student does the thinking him or herself, rather than copying or learning by rote. However, Rose Lee Hayden's pronunciation on these CDs is, in ... Read More: Rating:  - Fantastic way to build you Italian VocabularyThis course is the 'second phase' of Michel Thomas' famous language course, that stars used to pay $25,000 to attend. It lives up to its promise of radically increasing your vocabulary in Italian very quickly. The course has been written by Poala Tite, based on a framework provided by one of Michel's long-standing teachers Rose-Lee Haydon as, sadly, Michel Thomas passed away in 2005. The course is very much based on expanding your Italian Vocabulary by showing you patterns of words that are the same or similar in both languages (so called Cognates). For example most words that end in -tion in English end in -zione in Italian so 'condition' would be 'condizione' in Italian and so on. The method works by ... Read More: |
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