Michel Thomas Transcript
You're reactivating that memory and setting it deeper into your mind. You're building on things you know and therefore reinforcing those foundations. I think that's why he gets the students to speak early. It's like writing things down to help remember things. (Some people seem to hate the students on the recordings because of the mistakes they make, but I think if you're like me and make some of those yourself the following explanations are helpful, and if you don't make the mistakes, being pained as someone else does almost guarantees you never will yourself. ) So by the end of the the course, especially the advanced course, you have all the basic tourist knowledge someone looking for a quick fix in the language is looking for, but you have more than that, because you've been shown how to use, and even better, how to recognise every tense of the language... and that, for me, is where the brilliance comes in. At the end of the advanced course (for French anyway) Michel Thomas says something like this... and I'm sure some people reading this will recognise some of these thoughts: --I've given you a bunch of tools, and an open door to walk into the language which will be an enjoyable experience.
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I could see a new verb in one form and immediately have a good idea of it in every other tense. Sure there are exceptions to the rules but I'm sure if I said one incorrectly to a native speaker it'd be close enough to right for them to work out what I meant to say. And I'm going to stop there because I type too much and that's a bit long and preachy... but there you go, excellent beginner's springboard into the real language. That's what I think of Michel Thomas, and I think, for me at least, his method and LingQ go hand in hand. Martin.