Speak Spanish With Michel Thomas

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Summary: Awesome audio based course!
Review: I have been married to a native Spanish speaker for 6 years, and have never been able to pick up Spanish until I put these 2 CDs on in my car. He alternates English and Spanish, in a conversational style and I was able to jumpstart my learning in about 10-12 hours. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Excellent Starter
Review: I loved what Mr. Thomas said in the beginning: "Don't try to memorize, learn by rote, or mindlessly repeat over and over." That's one of the best lines I've ever heard regarding a language course! His approach is very memorable as he has a student who is very good and another that is pretty bad. This is a refreshing break from having one or two people saying something in Spanish then translating it with a small description of how it was used. His course, though it won't make you fluent in Spanish, will definitely get you on your way and making some simple and vital sentences.

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Summary: Excellent Starter
Review: I loved what Mr. Thomas said in the beginning: "Don't try to memorize, learn by rote, or mindlessly repeat over and over." That's one of the best lines I've ever heard regarding a language course! His approach is very memorable as he has a student who is very good and another that is pretty bad. This is a refreshing break from having one or two people saying something in Spanish then translating it with a small description of how it was used. His course, though it won't make you fluent in Spanish, will definitely get you on your way and making some simple and vital sentences.

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Summary: If you really want to learn, buy the full 8 CD version
Review: I think this is a great way to begin to learn spanish, but it is not nearly enough to make you close to fluent. I bought it as a refresher before taking some college courses after taking three years off of Spanish. It worked very well for my purpose. I bought the 2 CD version first and then ended up buying the 8 CD version as well. I'd reccomend spending the extra money and buying the 8 CD version to start. Easy to use in your car or anywhere else, highly reccomend this as a supplement to other spanish learning.

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Summary: Don't give up on auditory learning yet!
Review: I was convinced I could not learn by listening to tapes or cd's because of all the money I wasted trying different audio products which I just couldn't "get". This was driving me crazy because the only free time I had to learn a language was during my commute so I needed something I could listen to. That all changed when I took one more chance and bought Speak Spanish With Michel Thomas. All I needed was the right teacher and Michel Thomas was that teacher. The audio quality is great, the method is incredible, and most importantly I am finally learning Spanish!

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Summary: The Michel Thomas system works but....
Review: it works but the male student is too annoying to get around. You remember when you were in school and there was always one student in your class that couldn't understand the simplest commands and couldn't remember from one class to the next and you really, really wanted to get up from your desk and hit that student over the head with your textbook? that's this guy, trust me.

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Summary: Nice
Review: Plus side: no books, practical words that can be used everyday, easy to learn.
Negative side: poor audio effect, accent.

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Summary: Speak Spanish with Michel Thomas
Review: This is a 2CD-introd pack - which is excellent in leading the learner, together with 2 students, under the real-situation guidance of Mr Thomas - you will be eager to learn, urge to know more and confident to get it wrong and right. I'm a Chinese with only half-fluency in English -and Spanish is going to be my third language, and it really can help - and advise you to buy the full-pack -not like me, only the intro - otherwise, you need to buy it again for full-pack....it's really excellent and beyond other words to tell more. Remember - no book and no pen for this course. However, you can grasp the basics - the sentence structure and so you can make your own sentences step by step. GLEE

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Summary: It's Michel Thomas
Review: Who's Michel Thomas you ask - an old man who slobbers constantly on the recording who fought with the French Resistance and is the foreign language professor du jour of the stars. I mean, if Emma Thompson can pick it up, surely you can - right? Right. We're talking Michel Thomas here - he doesn't mess around. I have studied Spanish books, but it never really sank in until I heard it pronounced properly by Michel Thomas and his astute and sexy female student - and then butchered mercilessly to death by the ingrate male student.

Michel Thomas is overly patient with the moronic male student - almost to a fault. Thomas almost loses it when, on the 2nd CD at the end, the male student says "mas o menos" repeatedly when asked to say "mas tarde." Not to be missed. I laughed out loud on more than one occasion at the idiocy of the male student - he provides good comic relief and, in turn, helps with the learning process in a strange kind of way. If he can learn(if that's what he's doing), then anybody can. Undoubtedly, I consider Michel Thomas THE preeminent teacher and this CD set to be the sublime paradigm of Spanish audio learning for beginners.