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German with Michel Thomas [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Michel Thomas
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Anyone can learn a language with Michel Thomas--The World's Greatest Language Teacher.

No books. No writing. No drills. And nothing to memorize--ever! With his unique program, Michel Thomas has taught celebrities, corporate leaders, and schoolchildren--with immediate and amazing results. Now the Language Teacher to the Stars invites everyone to join his class!

Using German with Michel Thomas, listeners learn in real time--fully understanding as they go along, turning words into short sentences, and then building them into longer, more complex sentences, until they are conversing in German.

Michel will have listeners formulating their own thoughts and sentences from the very beginning, even if they have never succeeded in learning a language before. Michel has used this very method to teach celebrities such as Mel Gibson, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, and Princess Grace of Monaco.

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No books. No writing. No drills. And nothing to memorize—ever! With his unique program, Michel Thomas has taught French, Italian, Spanish, and German to celebrities, corporate leaders, and school children—with immediate and amazing results. Now, the Language Teacher to the Stars invites you to join his class!

  • So effortless, natural, and stimulating is Michel's system for learning, once you get started you won't want to stop. You will learn in real time—fully understanding as you go along, turning words into short sentences, and then building them into longer, more complex sentences, until you are conversing in a foreign language.
  • Immediately, you will feel the excitement of understanding and expressing yourself in German. Michel will have you formulating your own thoughts and sentences from the very beginning, even if you have never succeeded in learning a language before.
  • This Deluxe Edition contains eight hours of instruction on 8 CDs. Starting as a beginner, you can progress to a level of language proficiency that will enable you to converse naturally and communicate comfortably in a wide variety of situations.
  • Michel has used this very method to teach celebrities such as Mel Gibson, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Emma Thompson, Warren Beatty, and Princess Grace of Monaco.

    At home or in the car—in any place and at any time—you can learn from a world-class language teacher and become one of Michel's star students today!

    "Michel Thomas has developed a truly revolutionary method of language instruction. All you have to do is follow his lead: no memorization, homework, or stress. I was amazed by my success using Michel's method." -- Warren Keegan, Professor of Business at Pace University in New York


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5.0 out of 5 stars Michel Thomas owns!, April 24 2004
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Thomas J. Webb (Wrightwood, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: German with Michel Thomas (Audio CD)
First of all, the 2 best learning CD programs are Michel Thomas and Pimsleur. But, for languages that are so similar to English as German is, the Michel Thomas method works better. Also, pimsler is just so sterile compared to Michel Thomas.

If you want to learn German, I'd suggest finishing this CD set, THEN picking up grammar books and dictionaries. Once these CDs make German second nature, the gorier details of the language will be less daunting and intimidating. Don't expect this CD set or any singular learning material to give you complete fluency. Learning a language is going to be an investment in time and money.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Introduction to German, July 14 2003
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Kevin Grierson (Norfolk, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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After purchasing the introductory (2 CD) set, I bought this set through Amazon.com. Thomas introduces the structure of German sentences in the most painless way imaginable-you don't even realize you're learning grammar until he gives you the terminology after you've already learned how it works. Thomas teaches German by leading two students (you are the third) through a series of sentence building exercises. His handling of auxiliary verbs (will, must, can, etc.) makes them not only easy to understand, but useful as well (because using these "handles" allows you to use the infinitive form of whatever other verb is in the sentence).

Two (minor) quibbles: 1. Despite Thomas' insistence that you are not to take notes or attempt to memorize, one of the students on the recording (the woman) is clearly writing things down and referring to her notes before she responds, because several times she pronounces "Sie" (pronounced "Zee") as "sigh" and "die" (pronounced "dee") as the English "die," something she wouldn't be doing if she were trying to repeat what she'd heard. This mispronunciation is distracting and appears to frustrate Thomas. 2. Early on in the recordings, there is an audible beep where you are supposed to stop the CD and try to figure out the response to Thomas' sentence formation questions, but these quickly disappear (and without warning), and with Thomas' pauses in his speech it is sometimes difficult to tell when you should stop the CD and attempt to translate what you are hearing.

Overall, I found this program very easy to follow. The other two students seemed slow to me-so much so that I felt like yelling at them on occasion-but I wonder now if that was not deliberate, to make me feel as though I was progressing more rapidly than the "rest of the class." Regardless of its minor flaws, however, this is THE set to buy if you know no German and want to get a good start on understanding the language.

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4.0 out of 5 stars easy to use, Jun 12 2003
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This is a good collection to help you learn German. It is very easy to use and it works! It uses a much different approach to language learning that I had never seen, but it's very easy to catch on. It's big on not pushing the knowledge but rather letting it flow very easy. And I think that is the best way to learn!
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