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 enlarge | Author: Michel Thomas
Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  133 reviews
Sales Rank: 1667
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: 2
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 3.1
ISBN: 0340938919
EAN: 9780340938911
ASIN: 0340938919
Publication Date: September 29, 2006
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 Great System.....Shame about the students! April 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 the teacher to correct her rather gracelessly.
Anyway, a very easy way to quickly build up a solid base, and confidence in speaking French well.
 Fantastic February 6, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I 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.
Last chance for the idiots January 22, 2008
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
I spent most of my French lessons at school either fantasising about the teacher or getting stabbed by a compass (the other pupils were as bored as me but clearly lacked my hormonal imagination). So this language course was my last chance to learn the French language, which I'm absolutely in love with. I love the way it sounds, even if I did have to wait until I visited Paris to realise this.
Firstly, this is a spoken language course, so you're going to have to learn how to write/read French later on (although that shouldn't be terribly hard). On the other hand, it doesn't concentrate on silly tourist phrases, although they do crop up. By the end of the first CD I was saying, "I would like to know the political and economic situation in France"! Try using that on the surly waiter when you want an expresso!
It's a fun course too. You're paired with male and female fellow learners on the recording and... well, let's just say they ain't too bright. The woman in particular. It's all part of the learning experience, of course, and you don't half feel stupid when you slip into the same mistakes as she does.
I like to think up backstories for them. He's the gardener of a mansion house whose new owners are French, and the lady of the house has her carnal eye on him. So she sent him to Michel Thomas so she can seduce him better in her first language. She's a failed actress who's married to a rich and successful businessman, but she believes that big break-through audition is just around the corner. But all she really does is drink coffee and smoke cigarettes (Gitannes, obviously) with her friends. And, judging by her accent, she recently went to America because she now speaks with an irritating half English/half American drawl.
After the recording the two of them hooked up for a brief but highly-polished liaison. She liked him simply because he was young and not her husband, and he liked her because he finally found somebody dumber than he is.
But I digress.
The best part about this course is that it's logical. You're taught the basic words to construct sentences, and then told to do so. It's not the case that words and sentences are simply thrown at you, with the hope that some will soak into your thick skull. As Thomas says, once you've got the basics down pat, it's mostly a matter of learning new words.
All it requires is an hour of your time each evening. That's harder to manifest than it sounds. Even if you have the time, spending an hour in a room talking to yourself isn't entirely fun. So while the course itself might not take effort (Thomas tells us not to think but simply to listen), finding the time to listen isn't so easy.
Incidentally, if Miss James (my French teacher 1984-89) is reading this then I'm interested if you are. You were a fine looking woman back then and I'll bet you still are. Sorry about not reading the signs when we were in the stockroom. I was a bit naive back then. I only realised what you meant years later.
bostin ! December 5, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
i've just started this and it is a very enjoyable course,the reason it works so well is the two other students learning with you and the woman is probably a plant because she is worse than me at remembering.I wish there was one like this for thai.
Genuinely Excellent November 12, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Absolutely love this course! It really works & is a joy to learn from. Can't say fairer than that!
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