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If you want to learn a language please give Michel Thomas a try. He is amazing. I would not speak a word of Spanish without his help. Unlike any other way I’ve
by jonplackett 4y ago
If you want to learn a language please give Michel Thomas a try. He is amazing. I would not speak a word of Spanish without his help.
Unlike any other way I’ve found, his method teaches you to form sentences and grammar from the first lesson. If you line to figure out ‘how things work’ which I would guess would be a lot of you guys, it might fit into your way of thinking nicely.
I tried so many language learning apps and audio - and was really bad at languages at school but found his lessons just perfect.
Bonus 1: the BBC made a documentary about him where he teaches the worst pupils at a school French in 2 weeks.
Bonus 2: he was a Nazi hunter in the French resistance.
Bonus 3: he taught Doris day Spanish (Que Será, será)
Bonus 4: despite the lessons seeming like they’ve been planned out, he recorded them in one take towards the end of his life. He refused to let anyone know his ‘method’ before that, having too many trust issues post WW2
BBC doc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O0w_uYPAQic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O0w_uYPAQic
On Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas
Note - just like duolingo or anything else, this is just a foot in the door (but a really BIG foot). You’ll have to go speak to people in Spanish if you want to be able to speak for real.
- pessimizer 4y agoMihalis from Language Transfer teaches in a similar style (but with a Greek accent rather than a Polish one.) He's free (takes donations) and the courses are extensive. The selection is limited, but he's a one man band. https://www.languagetransfer.org/ https://www.languagetransfer.org/
- Apocryphon 4y agoI've been using Language Transfer and it's an excellent resource. I wonder if the method can be truly expanded to more languages, such as Mandarin Chinese.
- jonplackett 4y agoThere’s a Michel Thomas Madarin one but it isn’t done by him (sadly he’s dead) but I still found it a bit useful. Problem was it’s very short and I wasn’t sure what to do after and just stopped.
- jonplackett 4y agoYeah I like this too. Pretty much identical method - I’ve recommended this to a few people when Michel doesn’t have a course in that language.
- chadlavi 4y ago> occupation: nazi hunter, linguist Nice