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Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian.

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 Italian. 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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1.0 out of 5 stars Simply Awful, Mar 25 2004
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Peter T. Evensen (Altoona, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Italian with Michel Thomas (Audio CD)
This course is simply a recording of a class with Michel Thomas including real student responses that are often incorrect and badly pronounced. I cannot believe that they left these students on the program!

There are many problems with this course. The responses are given by non-native speakers so you do not get a good model of pronunciation. The responses are often wrong, leaving you with an incorrect model ringing in your ears. A lot of time is wasted waiting for a student to correct themselves or realize their own mistake. This time could better have been spent giving a correct response using a native speaker and presenting additional material. On recording three, in particular, things get quite confused with "won't" and "want" and "will," partially do to Mr. Thomas's accent making "won't" sound like "want." The students get confused here, as will anyone listening to this program. The female student on the tape is simply annoying. Mr. Thomas contradicts himself several times. He emphasizes how often Italian uses the present tense when English uses the future, then spends a long time drilling on the Italian future tense, completely confusing the issue.

The best beginner course is Accelerated Italian by Colin Rose, which I believe is only distributed by Nightingale Connant. It is more expensive, but well worth it. Next would be the Pimlseur series, and then the Living Language series. You should look at these alternatives and stay way from Michel Thomas.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Girl on the recording hinders the affect, Jan 23 2004
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The course is great, but the girl in the class annoys me with her accent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Italian Without the Pain, Sep 19 2003
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This review is from: Italian with Michel Thomas (Audio CD)
Pop the first CD of "Italian With Michel Thomas" in your player, and the first full sentence you will learn is "E' possibile" (It is possible). That message is constantly reinforced, and soon you find yourself saying "E' possibile per me parlare Italiano," and much more. Such is the expertise of Michel Thomas.

As a person whose first foreign language was a non-European one (Japanese), I've tried to teach myself a Romance language and always got bogged down in the grammar. After purchasing and listening to the CDs, I now have a very good introduction to Italian and a desire to learn more.

The course is marketed as one with "no repetition, no drills, and no homework," but it's not entirely accurate to say that there's no repetition in the course. It's just that, in this course, the repetition is expertly woven into the course. You're given a variety of sentences, but each new sentence builds on knowledge attained in previous sentences, and patterns you learn in CD #1 are reinforced in CD #7. So you repeat, but it doesn't feel like rote memorization.

The course emphasizes understanding and making oneself understood, so it emphasizes grammar at the expense of vocabulary. In summary, expect to supplement this course with other material for more vocabulary and verb forms. But, in 8 hours, you will probably have enough success with Italian to motivate you learn more. I certainly have. Grazie, Michel!

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