French With Michel Thomas Complete Course CD
| By: | Michel Thomas |
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| Media: | Audio CD |
| Availability: | Limited availability |
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Amazon Customer Reviews
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
Very good, yet lacking...
Indeed you feel like you are learning quite a lot, quite quickly, when you first start this, however there are a couple of things that make this somewhat overrated. Not much focus on pronounciation, which is so important in French. Michel sounds like an old grandpa, who mumbles his english at times, so you will not get crisp pronounciations out of this guy. I really wish there was a French speaker conversing with Michel, instead there are a couple of students sitting along side him and in my opinion they just drag the flow of these lessons. The students constantly make mistakes, which gets quite annoying (and confusing) after a while and you feel like you are starting to pick up bad habits from them. To Michel's credit, he does have a way of getting a lot of good material across and the lessons are structured well and most importantly you do learn from this, and it's reasonably priced.
Amazing
I am 3 hours into this course and I felt compelled to write about the experience....As a victim of 1 years worth of high school French years ago all I will say is that I learned more in the first hour with Michel than I EVER did in school...Great fun and a real feeling of satisfaction!
Great!! - Must be relaxed and in a quiet place ;)
I was speaking basic French in the first few days without any workbook or study guide, I just used the CD.
I warn you though, the program works for me when I can relax and fully focus on the program. A casual listen while doing other things does not work.
A good place to use the CD:
- A 30min. + car ride without any passengers
A bad pace to use the CD:
The commuter train or the Gym since saying the words out loud is part of the learning process.
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