Yes!

I will say though that this course was not my grounding in German, I did duolingo German up to the genitive case stage and stopped for some reason I can't remember. It's actually kind of ironic, because Michel Thomas himself doesn't strike me as the kind of man who went through life thinking that his destiny lay in the hands of other people.I can see why you would be making these points, but I cannot agree with this assessment.

Your diatribe against MT and the "lack of positive reviews" has produced a plethora of reviews which are an advertisement for MTM better than any MT could have wished for. I want to learn the language properly, with correct pronunciation, in a way that will be easily understood and appreciated by native speakers.

The more you read the more everything will fall in to place. I lost what i'm trying to learn. My teacher was native chinese.

However, no one will become proficient in a foreign language without complementary material and commitment: and MT does himself a disservice with his statement on teacher responsibility.
It is not 'This thing is exactly the same as that thing' it is something like 'Dispella allsame datpella' and that's the end of it.I think this feature should be much considered in teaching languages: that they just don't say the same things.I'd agree. what you learn in 15 hours with michel thomas, you cant learn it even if you live with a native speaker during 2 weeks. The course will definitely not help with listening comprehension. However, speaking with an accent and mispronouncing words are two different things in my opinion. For the reason that you make at the end of your review for why it is not effective!You wrote: ‘Nobody learns to play an instrument by having its mechanics explained to them. I think it's the perfect combination in the beginning. So he was left with his school, teaching celebrities.I know it is basically anecdotal, as I have a survey sample size of one (me! However, if I buy audio material for my own studies as an addition to my written material, I want to listen to native speakers. Sure, big parts of the courses are in English, and lots of it is not pronounced in a native accent - but the point of the course is not to teach you vocabulary, nor is it to give you a perfect pronunciation - rather it is to get you to practice the language, and also to help you build the basis of a language, to which you can later add more vocabulary and more advanced structures. Indeed, it’s not for everyone.And it’s certainly not intended to be the silver bullet of language learning. I sat a face-to-face placement interview. Eventually Found myself with a few of my band colleagues in a French Bar/Cafe surrounded by Frenchmen/women.

In my opinion, there is no such thing as a complete course because attacking from all angles, and over and over again, is par for the course with what will ultimately be the lifetime endeavour of learning and maintaining a language. We had just bought a house in Spain. Finally, it is hard work (I painstakingly made my own transcripts to review off-line; without this I'd have been repeating many lessons ad infinitum).By contrast, the "Learn in your car" series I'd recommend - it's cheap and covers a lot of vocabulary (much more than Pimsleur). Its true what you say about listening skills. The massive criticism is that once you've gone through it once, you'll never want to repeat the 8 hours of the two students struggling and the teacher (a polish lady, fluent in English) explaining things.
I thought it was good. After a couple of months of that course I would still have struggled to have a proper conversation in French, but I was able to write a decent-length e-mail to an old friend in France, and that gave me a real feeling of achievement. I did not expect this course to be equal to a classroom-based learning, and it does exactly what it is designed for - to give the basic understanding of that language. ), but from my experience, the course was an eye-opener. So if I'm listening to a woman, and compare what I say myself, I'll notice mistakes in my pronunciation that I didn't when comparing to a man. And I'd say after considering all this that no one can tell us until after we've discovered something for ourselves.

Hell no!, I'm just saying there's the posibility that you fit in the kind of audience for this product, and if you are, believe me, you'll find it awesome, if not, that's ok, then keep searching, If Rosetta Stone makes you learn, excelent!, If the earworms approach makes you learn..terrific!, great!, if not...then-keep-searching.....Just know yourself, and be conscious that everyfuckingthing is RELATIVE....I honestly couldn't disagree more with almost everything you've written here. I have eventually given up. I personally managed to complete the Japanese course. His 'non-grammatical' explanations seem to be very appealing to people who are afraid of grammar.

I hope all that resentment is not because because a publisher did not answer your request.

"Learning a language is not JUST a cognitive exercise. I still remember the day that Japanese sentence structure clicked in my head - I suddenly understood how to mesh different sentences together, and it all made sense to me. But I knew she'd get a kick out of the sentence since she works in customer service, and indeed she understood me.] This is for the benefit of the self-study learner, but also because the whole method is about revealing what you already know about a new language and relying on English as a base for cognates, mnemonics and also to reduce stress. It's your right to link to the LA Times article, but it is an alleged "debunk". Then you can move onto something with more coverage.Can anyone let me know how far they have gone with the Advanced French?

Michel is a proven Holocaust survivor whose whole family were murdered, and he fought for the French resistance and US army. Their website is :-I would like to hear the views of any others who have tried the Michel Thomas method.