Speak Spanish with Michel Thomas (Speak... with Michel Thomas) [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Michel Thomas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0071380612 | ISBN-13: 978-0071380614 | Edition: 1

Anyone can learn a language with Michel Thomas--The World's Greatest Language Teacher.

No books. No writing. No drills. And nothing to memorize--ever! With his unique program, Michel Thomas has taught celebrities, corporate leaders, and schoolchildren--with immediate and amazing results. Now the Language Teacher to the Stars invites everyone to join his class!

Using Speak Spanish with Michel Thomas, listeners learn in real time--fully understanding as they go along, turning words into short sentences, and then building them into longer, more complex sentences, until they are conversing in Spanish.

Michel will have listeners formulating their own thoughts and sentences from the very beginning, even if they have never succeeded in learning a language before. Michel has used this very method to teach celebrities such as Mel Gibson, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, and Princess Grace of Monaco.

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About the Author

Michel Thomas (New York, NY) is head of the Michel Thomas Language Centers and has been teaching languages for more than 50 years. He has taught his revolutionary language program all over the world.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071380612
• ISBN-13: 978-0071380614
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,177,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Michel Thomas, May 6, 2003

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Chris Salzer (Gainesville, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speak Spanish with Michel Thomas (Speak... with Michel Thomas) (Audio CD)

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.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome audio based course!, November 10, 2001

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This review is from: Speak Spanish with Michel Thomas (Speak... with Michel Thomas) (Audio CD)

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.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, September 19, 2005

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Randy Given (Manchester, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speak Spanish with Michel Thomas (Speak... with Michel Thomas) (Audio CD)

This is an excellent way to learn Spanish. I think more educational programs ought to go this route. I mean, how do we teach kids to learn English? By propping a book in front of them and forcing them to memorize it? No, by conversactional English. THEN, do the writing. That is essentially what this CD set is doing.

Yes, sometimes it is hard to under Michel at first. Then, you get used to his speaking. Having actual students makes it really handy. The lack of "pressure" helps things sink in. I tried some terminology CDs and they just don't work as well.

If you want to learn conversational Spanish, especially if you have kids or friends that are learning Spanish, try this out (and consider the 8 CD set as well).