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100 of 101 people found the following review helpful
As with the original 8-CD set, this new, 4-CD, 5-hour course is an astonishingly rapid and easy route to confidence in German. As before, there is no textbook or writing, just listening and repeating. Superficially, Michel seems more schoolmasterly and demanding than the teachers I remember from my schooldays but his method is so imaginative and fluid that I was able to easily and confidently construct sentences with several verbs in all sorts of tenses without ever having to realise what "imperfect subjunctive" and "future indicative" mean. German can be a challenging language to learn, but this course gives an instinctive, natural grasp of language without the formality of grammatical rules but with all the linguistic skill you will need. As with the original course, you will get a natural grasp of the structures of German, to a level beyond two years of evening classes. Of course, there is much more to learn in terms of vocabulary and verbs not covered in the course, but once you have the instinctive grasp of structure that Michel gives, it's easy to add new words onto the framework you have learnt. I have several German books and CDs, but the Michel Thomas courses are outstanding in giving speedy confidence whilst feeling natural and easy. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend his courses to anyone learning German.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Michel continues on from the first course and it's pretty seamless -no sudden jump. He moves onto the subjunctive which is advanced stuff and towards the end he counts up the tenses he has covered and it is around 15. The only reason I don't give it five stars is that it doesn't do much grammar - you would never know that there was life beyond der (ie den,des,dem). I've been using Lisa Kahlen's German Grammar Made Easy for that. I'd love to know how this course compares with Linguaphone Advanced German and Hugo's Advanced German.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The best German course out there.
I would recommend tackling the 8-CD foundation course, then this course, and *then* the 2-CD vocabulary course.
The vocab course is the only one without Michel teaching students, and goes at a much faster pace. You'll need the Advanced course before diving into it.
Also, have a look at the Rocket German courses. One issue I have with Michel Thomas is the lack of "real" vocab. It goes into lots of details about using the main verbs and sentence structure, but at the end of it, you have very little "meat" to hold it all together.
"The sky is blue."
Nope, can't say that.
"The dog is sitting."
Absolutely no idea.
"I don't know if I want to do it, but I will do it tomorrow."
Yup, no problems there.
Michel concentrates a lot on "it" sentences, focusing more on verb useage rather than vocab. But he does it so incredibly well, and makes the knowledge sink in, that this is still one of the best courses to go through.
Oh, and he never mentions (although does USE) anything about accusative, nominative or dative forms.
I would recommend tackling the 8-CD foundation course, then this course, and *then* the 2-CD vocabulary course.
The vocab course is the only one without Michel teaching students, and goes at a much faster pace. You'll need the Advanced course before diving into it.
Also, have a look at the Rocket German courses. One issue I have with Michel Thomas is the lack of "real" vocab. It goes into lots of details about using the main verbs and sentence structure, but at the end of it, you have very little "meat" to hold it all together.
"The sky is blue."
Nope, can't say that.
"The dog is sitting."
Absolutely no idea.
"I don't know if I want to do it, but I will do it tomorrow."
Yup, no problems there.
Michel concentrates a lot on "it" sentences, focusing more on verb useage rather than vocab. But he does it so incredibly well, and makes the knowledge sink in, that this is still one of the best courses to go through.
Oh, and he never mentions (although does USE) anything about accusative, nominative or dative forms.
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