Foundation Spanish Course – 8CDs and review 2CDs
This was my introduction to Spanish. From the first lesson Michel hypnotises you into relaxing and playing at learning Spanish and within minutes you are constructing sentences like “what is your opinion of the current political and social situation in Spain?”, he builds confidence and teaches grammar painlessly.
Michel Thomas Foundation Spanish Course
He emphasises that you shouldn’t write notes or try to memorise things. You are the third student in a class of three and he is the teacher, the psychology is excellent, soon you will find yourself correcting the other students out loud.
Advanced Spanish Course – 4CDs and review 1CD (great for reviving after a break)
Similar format that covers all the tenses and moods you will normally meet. Again you are the third student in an intimate tutorial.
Michel Thomas Advanced Spanish Course
Spanish Language Builder – 2CDs
Just Michel talking to you with lots of practical examples
Michel Thomas Spanish Language Builder
Spanish Vocabulary – 5CDs
One of Michel’s student teachers does the teaching, based on his method, good revision of grammar with lots of cognates
Michel Thomas Spanish Vocabulary Course
Summary
If I could only take one audio set onto my desert island it would be the set of Michel Thomas courses.
Pros of Michel Thomas Language Courses
- Grammar is covered in depth
- You never seem to struggle while he is talking to you
- You are encouraged to guess at vocabulary, lots of cognates (words that sound the same in English) are introduced
Cons of Michel Thomas Language Courses
- You will struggle to understand when a Spanish person speaks to you
- There is a fairly limited vocabulary
- I needed a grammar book to make sense of some examples
- Sometimes I misheard what he said and needed a dictionary to check a word
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