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This was my first experience w Michel Thomas, and at first I didn't like it at all. I really like it, and when I learn French, Michel T. I agree w the too much chitty-chat comments, but if I have to listen to 30 seconds of stuff I don't think is important to get about a year of Spanish the easy way, I'll put up w it. I've tried everything. My 13 year old daughter likes it too. I like Pimsleur too, but Michel is different. Then I stuck with it and realize it is very valuable. will be my first purchase for sure.
His way of teaching is crazy-wonderful. It's like you are learning things and you finally realize that you are starting to speak w confidence. Read the insert about this man, his life was fascinating. You really should try it.
This is a fabulous cd. The way the language is explained and how it teaches it makes for easy learning. Love this.
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. They don't sound at all like the Spanish I hear spoken. Even grammar and vocabulary I knew well before the course I feel less comfortable with now. You will hear a man with a thick German or possibly Eastern European accent teaching two people with other accents who are novices with Spanish how to speak Spanish. My wife, a PhD in Psychology tells me hearing incorrect information while learning has been found to hinder learning. They make mistakes - lots of them. You will not hear a single native Spanish speaker on this CD. There is a lot of grammar introduced rather quickly, which I thought would be good, but I do not feel I have learned the information due to how badly the students are speaking it and responding to it.
He corrects them, but you will hear wrong information many times over. I have had quite a few classes in Spanish and visit Mexico many times per year. I think Michel's method is pretty good actually, if I were the only one receiving it or interacting with it. I repeat, DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.
If you really are an advanced speaker of Spanish, skip this product entirely. The teacher says something, then the student repeats it (it usually sounds nothing like Spanish when they do), and they continue along like that.
I was extremely dissappointed with this product. First of all, the word "Advanced" in the title is a misnomer.
I am an intermediate advanced Spanish student, and I was looking for a product to help me to speak more fluently. Secondly, the way in which the lessons are taught is very disorganized and, quite frankly, annoying.
The lessons on this CD are very, very basic. The instructions are even given in English, which is an indication of the level to which he is trying to speak.
The fact that the teacher is not a native speaker also is not helpful. If you are a basic speaker, this might help you if you can possibly stand to listen to the whole thing.
It does a good job with the verb tenses, but only minimal time is spent on adjectives and nouns. There is no question that Michel Thomas is the most effective all-audio language learning method. For example, even by the end one does not learn how to use possessive adjectives (my, your, his, etc).However, the course is certainly a good way to absorb basic structure. Nothing is better for people who don't have the time or discipline for a real course. However, despite the efforts that this course makes at being comprehensive, it cannot include everything. It should not be difficult to pick up the rest from a grammar book or immersion in the language. I'm not sure, however, why Michel did not put out a much longer course in which he introduced more extensive vocabulary and gave more practice sentences, not to mention the grammar of nouns and adjectives.
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