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Michel Thomas Foundation Course: French (Michel Thomas Series) | 
| Author: Michel Thomas
Publisher: Hodder Education
Category: Book
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 3.2
ISBN: 0340938919
EAN: 9780340938911
ASIN: 0340938919
Publication Date: September 29, 2006
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 162
 Michel Thomas French Foundation Course March 1, 2010
Neil Watson
After recently purchasing the full foundation course,i would like to recommend this product to anybody wishing to either improve or
commence learning another language.
It certainly seems to strike the right "Chords". The methodology just happens to work!
I dont know how it works but Michel Thomas had a remarkable gift for teaching (the structure or method employed seems to be quite hypnotic). I would suggest this is, perhaps why it does really work.
I would not have thought learning a language could be so much fun!
(its early days yet but having confidence in such a brilliant tutor
certainly helps)
C`est si bon.
Neil Watson
Learning French March 1, 2010
B. Mackellar
I would highly recommend Michel Thomas as a way of learning. His voice is boring but his method is very effective.
Excellent March 1, 2010
Father Satan (London, UK)
In short this is a great way to learn the language (French this case) I put it on my iPod & works wonders. I just need a pair of noise cancelling headphones now to cut out all that tube noise which means I cannot hear the words/pronounciations correctly. This is well worth the money.
Michel Thomas February 27, 2010
T. Caldwell
Excellent course - listening to it whilst running - trying to multitask and it seems to be sinking in. Very happy with the purchase.
 MICHEL THOMAS FRENCH FOUNDATION COURSE February 26, 2010
Michael JR Jose (the UK)
This is an effective way of learning standard polite French, and what is covered works well on twenty-first century shopworkers and taxi drivers of Brussels in my experience. Unfortunately the hotel staff will switch to their superior English as they will not want to take the time while you work your basic French sentences out, but even here a little French cannot hurt! The course consists of eight discs, with Michel Thomas training two students, one rather quick on the uptake and one very slow. Each disc is broken into ten or eleven tracks of about six minutes each, and it is quite easy to work with the students as a silent partner, stopping and starting the tracks before they give their answers. Michel Thomas then gives the correct answer after the student answer to enable you to check yours. There are also two excellent review discs with just Michel Thomas moving rapidly through all the questions and answers so you can revise quickly. The strength of this system is that it avoids most technical terms but concentrates on the basic high frequency grammar and verbs, with the myriad extra little modifiers, pronouns, and prepositions that abound in French. There are relatively few nouns, but essentials are quite well covered. To build vocabulary you will need a dictionary, and I would also recommend: 'French Key Words: The Basic 2,000 Word Vocabulary in a Hundred Units Arranged by Frequency, with Comprehensive French and English Indexes', by Xavier-Yves Escande, pub. Oleander Press.
The stress is on gaining understanding listening and speaking with accuracy, even spellings are only given orally. The problem is with the students, who are very mismatched, and the fast student slows down his learning pace in sympathy to enable the slow one to keep up. This is pretty annoying by the fifth disc, but you have to bear with it. Michel Thomas also has a bizarre and forceful predilection for unhelpful and incidental mnemonics which do not actually reinforce the meaning of the word, eg, the word for 'to tell' is such a 'dear' word - spelled 'dire'. This is partly an endearing idiosyncrasy, and partly a distraction. As for pace of learning, I found that sometimes I could only grasp one track at time, and at others I flew through five. I also found that I could learn better early in the mornings, much to my surprise. Overall, if I pushed it, I could cover a disc a day, usually a disc in two days.
A few highlights from each disc may be in order, please excuse my clumsy transliterations. DISC ONE will enable you to say: "I would like to go to France for the holiday" - "je voudrais aller en France pour les vacances". DISC TWO: I must know where it is - je dois savoir ou c'est. DISC THREE: Are you going to be here? - allez-vous etre ici?. DISC FOUR: how is it going/how are you? - comment ca va?; and, Nobody knows where it is - personne sait ou c'est. DISC FIVE: When can you send it to him? - quand pouvez-vous le lui envoyer? DISC SIX: I don't have the time/no problem/there is someone here/is there a message? - j'n'ai'pa'l temps/pas'n problem/il y a quel'qu'n ici/est-qu'il'yan message. DISC SEVEN: shall we go? - on va partir? - and the three forms of future tense. DISC EIGHT: simple past tense; and use of auxiliary verbs to avoid having to remember how to conjugate infinitive verbs: I can see/I must.../I want... - je peux voir/je dois.../je veux... . The distinction between 'tu' and 'vous' is not covered, and the conjugation 'they are x-ing' is not much covered, or the familiar 'tu' conjugation - eg, 'tu as'.
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