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Advanced Course

Els Van Geyte and Cobie Adkins-de Jong

www.michelthomas.co.uk

Learn another language the way you learnt your own

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and learn another language the way you learnt your own

Developed over 50 years, the amazing teaching method of the world’s

greatest language teacher completely takes the strain out of language

learning. Michel Thomas’ all-audio courses provide an accelerated method

for learning that is truly revolutionary.

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London NW1 3BH.

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Introduction

What is the Michel Thomas Method?

The Michel Thomas Method* all-audio courses, published by Hodder

Education, provide an accelerated method for language learning that is truly

revolutionary. And they promise a remarkable educational experience that

will make your learning both exciting and pleasurable.

How does the Method work?

The Method works by breaking a language down into its component parts,

enabling learners to reconstruct the language themselves – to form their

own sentences, to say what they want, when they want. Because you learn

the language in small steps, you can build it up yourself to produce ever

more complicated sentences.

No books

No writing

Just confidence – in hours

The Michel Thomas Method is ‘in tune’ with the way your brain works, so

you assimilate the language easily and don’t forget it! The Method teaches

you through your own language, so there’s no stress, and no anxiety. The

teacher builds up the new language, step by step, and you don’t move on till

you’ve absorbed and understood the previous point. As Michel Thomas said,

‘ What you understand, you know, and what you know, you don’t forget .’

With parallels to the way you learnt your own language, each language is

learnt in ‘real-time’ conditions. There is no need to stop for homework,

additional exercises or vocabulary memorization.

*US patent 6,565,358

‘Learning Spanish with Michel was the most

extraordinary learning experience of my life –

it was unforgettable.’

Emma Thompson

‘Michel Thomas is a precious find indeed.’

The Guardian

The classroom situation on the recording lets you learn with others. You enjoy

their success, and you learn from their mistakes. The students on the

recordings are not reading from scripts and they have received no additional

instruction or preparation – just the guidance you hear on the recording. You,

as the learner, become the third student and participate actively in the class.

A very important part of the Michel Thomas Method is that full responsibility

for your learning lies with the teacher, not with you, the pupil. This helps to

ensure that you can relax, and feel confident, so allowing you to learn

effectively.

You will enjoy the Method as it creates real excitement – you can’t wait to

use the language.

‘There’s no such thing as a poor student,

only a poor teacher.’

Michel Thomas

What level of language will I achieve?

The Introductory and Foundation courses are designed for complete

beginners. They make no assumption of a knowledge of any language other

than English. They will give the beginner a practical and functional use of the

HOW ARE THE RECORDINGS BEST USED?

Relax! Make yourself comfortable before playing the recording and try to let

go of the tensions and anxieties traditionally associated with learning.

Do not write or take any notes. Remove notebooks, pens, dictionaries

and anything else associated with learning at school.

Do not try to remember. While participating in the recording and

afterwards, it is important that you do not try to memorize specific words or

expressions. It is a basic principle of the Michel Thomas Method that the

responsibility for the student’s learning lies with the teacher. With the Michel

Thomas Method as your teacher, your learning will be based on understanding,

and what you understand you don’t forget.

Interact fully with the recordings. Use the pause button and respond out

loud (or in a whisper, or in your head, if you are in a public place) before the

students’ responses. This is essential. You do not learn by repetition but by

thinking out the answers to each question; it is by your own thought process

that you truly learn.

Give yourself time to think. The students on the recordings had all the time

they needed to think out their responses. On the recordings their ‘thinking time’

has been cut in order to make full use of the recording time. You can take all the

time you need (by using your pause button). The pause button is the key to your

learning! To get you used to pausing the recording before the students’ responses,

bleeps have been added to the first few tracks. When you hear the bleep, pause

the recording, think out and say your response, then release the pause button to

hear the student’s, then the teacher’s, response.

Start at the beginning of the course. Whatever your existing knowledge

of the language you are learning, it is important that you follow the way that the

teacher builds up your knowledge of the language.

Do not get annoyed with yourself if you make a mistake. Mistakes are

part of the learning process; as long as you understand why you made the

mistake and you have the ‘ahaa’ reaction – ‘yes, of course, I understand now’ –

you are doing fine. If you made a mistake and you do not understand why, you

may have been daydreaming for a few seconds. The course is structured so that

you cannot go on unless you fully understand everything, so just go back a little

and you will pick up where you left off.

Stop the recording whenever it suits you. You will notice that this course

is not divided into lessons; you will always be able to pick up from where you

left off, without the need to review.

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