Advantages: Easy to use, effective, engrossing... Disadvantages: Is not quite thorough enough in vocabulary for use by students.
...one crucial difference: it works. Michel Thomas was a genius, and he has revolutionised language learning with a simplicity, accessibility and plain elegance that literally astounds. As advertised on the CD box (which is unfortunately rather cumbersome: the size of two DVD boxes stuck together), this course demands no writing, no books, and indeed no homework (not even any mental homework.) Everything takes place while listening to the eight CDs ... ...group of students taught by Michel Thomas on the audio track, and you will soon find yourself correcting their mistakes mentally, and occasionally will be corrected by them! The course is wonderfully easy to get into, and within minutes of the first CD you will be capable of constructing basic sentences in Spanish. By the end of this Foundation Course, you will have a fairly comprehensive grounding in the language and its grammar; which can be improved ...
harryrulestheworld 03.01.2008
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Advantages: Great method and format Disadvantages: Mistakes
Great method of teaching and great format with the two students and one teacher. Very enjoyable to learn a language this way.
But ..... there is a number of mistakes in the material. My girlfriend is Spanish and it was great to show off my newly learned phrases when talking to her on the phone or writing them in an e-mail or sms. However it was quite disheartening to hear that some of what I had learned was incorrect. For example, 'reservation' ... ...is simply taught wrongly. And the present perfect for 'escribir' is not 'escribido' but 'escrito'. Obviously my girlfriend has not listened to the full course, so I'm worried that there may be (many more) mistakes. So a great course and I feel I have learned a lot about the beautiful Spanish language, but only with the help of my girlfriend (who by the way is even more beautiful than her language). ...
Batuwu 07.07.2009
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