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"The nearest thing to painless learning"
"A unique and perfectly brilliant way of learning languages"
(Stephen Fry )
"The most extraordinary experience of my life"
"Thomas makes it simple"
"Works like a dream"
"Michel Thomas is a precious find indeed"
"Five minutes in and you already feel like you're winning"
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Speak Italian - Instantly.
No books. No writing. No memorizing.
Learn 50 essential words at the heart of Italian and how to put them together to make yourself understood. This 1-hour introduction to the Michel Thomas method will have you speaking real Italian straight away. There are no books, no pens, and no memorizing - just listen, connect and speak.
- Guaranteed success. Speak and understand perfectly
- Incredible progress. Get what you want, fast
- Absolute confidence. Unleash your natural learning style without trying
How it Works:
Learn another language the way you learned your own
You learned your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Italian in the same way. You'll stick with it because you'll love it. Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas. This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Italian in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself. You learn through listening and speaking without the pressure of writing or memorizing. You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably. Join the millions of people worldwide who have learned a new language with the Michel Thomas Method.
Learn Anywhere
Don't be tied to chunky books or your computer, Michel Thomas Method audio courses let you learn whenever you want: at home, in your car, or on the move with your MP3 player.
What's in the Course?
The Perfect Introduction
Start Italian with the Michel Thomas Method is an hour of essentials taken from Total Italian with the Michel Thomas Method. (Total is the classic Michel Thomas Method course, now enhanced with extra vocabulary, on-screen learning, and exercises.) You will join Michel and two students in a live lesson and within the one hour you will be able to construct simple phrases. You will learn the language with the students,hearing both their successes and their mistakes to keep you motivated and involved throughout the course. By the end, you will have the confidence to understand and speak many essentials of Italian.
Start Italian with the Michel Thomas Method provides an hour's teaching on one CD.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you have never come across the Michel Thomas language courses, and you want to see if his method and style will work for you, and you want to learn Italian, this is a good taster. Like the previous review said, it's not going to get you around Italy unless you do more work.
I decided to get this rather than pay for the full course, in case it wasn't for me. Having confirmed to myself that this method will work for me, I will be getting the Total Italian course.
You definitely need to have a finger constantly on the pause button as the information is coming at you extremely fast. The simulated classroom environment (2 other students learning alongside you) is relaxing. There is one male and one female student, both with UK English accents, and they fumble and make mistakes, so you do feel a certain kinship with them as you make your own attempts.
This method launches you straight into building sentences, with any grammatical points explained along the way, but it is not dry stuff that you don't need for the immediate exercise you are doing.
Another plus point for those embarking on (or resuming) learning as a busy adult if you drive and have a CD player - you can do the couse in the car (providing you can easily and quickly access that pause button) and there is absolutely no homework to do! This makes it supremely easy to get on with picking up a new language, or brushing up on one you're rusty in. If you travel on public transport it will admittedly be a bit more difficult, but if you are walking you could do it then.
The focus is entirely on the spoken word - but then most of us wanting to use languages as adults want to speak (and most school language tuition in the UK, certainly in the past, has been too focused on reading and writing with the result that most of us have little or no confidence with speaking and communicating).
Let's face it - when you learn your native language you first learn by speaking, not reading and writing, so it makes perfect sense to do the same when learning another language, doesn't it?
Total Italian, here I come!
I decided to get this rather than pay for the full course, in case it wasn't for me. Having confirmed to myself that this method will work for me, I will be getting the Total Italian course.
You definitely need to have a finger constantly on the pause button as the information is coming at you extremely fast. The simulated classroom environment (2 other students learning alongside you) is relaxing. There is one male and one female student, both with UK English accents, and they fumble and make mistakes, so you do feel a certain kinship with them as you make your own attempts.
This method launches you straight into building sentences, with any grammatical points explained along the way, but it is not dry stuff that you don't need for the immediate exercise you are doing.
Another plus point for those embarking on (or resuming) learning as a busy adult if you drive and have a CD player - you can do the couse in the car (providing you can easily and quickly access that pause button) and there is absolutely no homework to do! This makes it supremely easy to get on with picking up a new language, or brushing up on one you're rusty in. If you travel on public transport it will admittedly be a bit more difficult, but if you are walking you could do it then.
The focus is entirely on the spoken word - but then most of us wanting to use languages as adults want to speak (and most school language tuition in the UK, certainly in the past, has been too focused on reading and writing with the result that most of us have little or no confidence with speaking and communicating).
Let's face it - when you learn your native language you first learn by speaking, not reading and writing, so it makes perfect sense to do the same when learning another language, doesn't it?
Total Italian, here I come!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this because I wanted something educational to kill the 20 min drive to work. I couldn't afford the full set, so I bought this. For the past week it's been interesting, but it's too short to learn anything really. It's peaked my interest, and I'm about to purchase the full kit (and in other languages later on.)
I think if you want to learn a language you have to dive into the whole thing, dipping your toes in the water like with this CD. Buy the whole thing and you'll learn, but this CD won't get you in a position where you'd feel comfortable travelling in Italy.
I think if you want to learn a language you have to dive into the whole thing, dipping your toes in the water like with this CD. Buy the whole thing and you'll learn, but this CD won't get you in a position where you'd feel comfortable travelling in Italy.
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A novel and successful method of language learning, tried and tested over many years. Michel Thomas makes it clear that the teacher is a fault not the learner if this method does not work. Just listen and obsorb no writing no homework.
Must be tried by any serious learner.
Must be tried by any serious learner.
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