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Michel Thomas Advanced Course: Italian (Michel Thomas Series)
by: Michel Thomas

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 9780340939000
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 0340939001
Label: Hodder Arnold
Manufacturer: Hodder Arnold
Publication Date: September 29, 2006
Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Studio: Hodder Arnold
Sales Rank: 41111

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Editorial Review:

Review:
"* "Ideal for any business traveller who needs to be able to get around confidently." Sunday Business * "A great way to learn; it's fast and it lasts". The Daily Telegraph * "Five minutes into the first CD, you already feel like you're winning." Time Out * "Michel Thomas is a precious find indeed." The Guardian * "Thomas makes it simple" Sunday Times * "Michel's methods will teach you effectively and easily" Daily Star * "Hugely inspiring" Red"

Review:
"Ideal for any business traveller who needs to be able to get around confidently." (Sunday Business )

"A great way to learn; it's fast and it lasts". (The Daily Telegraph )

"Five minutes into the first CD, you already feel like you're winning." (Time Out )

"Michel Thomas is a precious find indeed." (The Guardian )

"Thomas makes it simple" (Sunday Times )

"Michel's methods will teach you effectively and easily" (Daily Star )

"Hugely inspiring" (Red )

"A compelling teacher ... you really do remember what you're learning"

(Italia! )

'Remarkably effective, addictive even'

(London Evening Standard )

Product Description:
This recording follows on from the Foundation (8-hour) all-audio course which took the language-learning world by storm.
With no books, no memorising and no homework, Michel Thomas teaches the basic grammar of the language painlessly. Using the method he perfected over 50 years, he shares his secret with the world - and 'makes it simple' (Sunday Times).
In only a matter of hours, he teaches what it takes years to cover by conventional methods, giving his students a comprehensive working knowledge of the language all the tenses are taught and practised; the position of pronouns is made easy, and Michel spends some time on the problems of translation, instilling in the students 'an enhanced awareness of their own language'. And he does all this effortlessly, 'effectively and easily' (Daily Star).
By the end of the Advanced course Michel has covered ALL the structures and tenses of 'A' level and beyond. Grammar points and tenses only touched upon in the Foundation (8-hour) course are expanded to give the student a complete knowledge of the structure of the entire language.
He points out the similarities of the vocabulary in English and Italian and gives his students the tools to guess the words they do not know, or think they do not know.
Join two students as they learn in real time. Become the third member of the class and experience the excitement of learning a language as if by magic!

This new edition has one, very significant, new feature an additional Review CD. All the main teaching points have been lifted from the 5-hour Advanced course and are contained on this one CD. The student hears Michel teaching a specific point, there is a pause which allows time for the student to give his/her response to Michels prompt, followed by Michel giving the correct response. If the student has struggled or given an incorrect answer, s/he can use the index in the accompanying booklet to locate the area of the main course where the specific language point was being taught in depth and can return to the main course to work through the relevant section again, quickly and efficiently. It can also be used very successfully by those coming back to the course after a lapse of time, either to check how much they have retained or as a quick revision tool. Only Michels words and phrases are on the new CD, so the course is summarised succinctly and with a new, snappy pace. Finally, the new edition is repackaged, with an up-to-the minute cover treatment and robust DVD-type cases inside a rigid card slip case, to ensure that the CDs remain damage-free and are easy to access and use.

Synopsis:
This recording follows on from the Foundation (8-hour) all-audio course which took the language-learning world by storm. With no books, no memorising and no homework, Michel Thomas teaches the basic grammar of the language painlessly. Using the method he perfected over 50 years, he shares his secret with the world - and 'makes it simple' (Sunday Times).In only a matter of hours, he teaches what it takes years to cover by conventional methods, giving his students a comprehensive working knowledge of the language all the tenses are taught and practised; the position of pronouns is made easy, and Michel spends some time on the problems of translation, instilling in the students 'an enhanced awareness of their own language'. And he does all this effortlessly, 'effectively and easily' (Daily Star). By the end of the Advanced course Michel has covered ALL the structures and tenses of 'A' level and beyond. Grammar points and tenses only touched upon in the Foundation (8-hour) course are expanded to give the student a complete knowledge of the structure of the entire language.He points out the similarities of the vocabulary in English and Italian and gives his students the tools to guess the words they do not know, or think they do not know.

Join two students as they learn in real time. Become the third member of the class and experience the excitement of learning a language as if by magic!This new edition has one, very significant, new feature an additional Review CD. All the main teaching points have been lifted from the 5-hour Advanced course and are contained on this one CD. The student hears Michel teaching a specific point, there is a pause which allows time for the student to give his/her response to Michels prompt, followed by Michel giving the correct response. If the student has struggled or given an incorrect answer, s/he can use the index in the accompanying booklet to locate the area of the main course where the specific language point was being taught in depth and can return to the main course to work through the relevant section again, quickly and efficiently. It can also be used very successfully by those coming back to the course after a lapse of time, either to check how much they have retained or as a quick revision tool.Only Michels words and phrases are on the new CD, so the course is summarised succinctly and with a new, snappy pace.

Finally, the new edition is repackaged, with an up-to-the minute cover treatment and robust DVD-type cases inside a rigid card slip case, to ensure that the CDs remain damage-free and are easy to access and use.

About the Author:
Michel Thomas had an amazing life. Born in Poland, he spent his early years in Germany and then in France, where he studied psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. When war broke out, he fought with the Resistance and suffered imprisonment in slave labour camps. At the end of the war he joined the US liberation army and later settled in the US where he established his world-famous language school. For more than 50 years he taught languages to the rich and famous and became the world's most sought-after language teacher.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Easy learning!
By far the best course I have come across and a giveaway at this price. Would recommend tol anyone wanting to learn a language.

Rating:

- Stretching, but Fun
Having enjoyed Michel's Foundation Italian and Language Builder, I moved onto this Advanced course with some trepidation. In the course he expands your conversational range adding the "informal you", "you (plural)", and "they" endings to the present, past, imperfect, future and conditional tenses. This pretty much takes up the first three disks and is handled with Michel's usual gravely charm. He makes it fun and interesting. The latter stages of disk 3 and disk 4 are harder as he introduces new tenses - the "subjunctive". Not sure I've even heard of that, though it seems useful. It will take quite a bit of studying to get my head round it. I am not convinced this set deserves the title "Advanced" since most of it is simply adding verb endings ... Read More:

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- Not an advanced course, rambling with important errors and omissions
Having found the advanced Michel Thomas' advanced French course, I thought I would try the advanced Italian course. The basic concept is good but the first thing to note is that this is not an advanced course but rather an intermediate course. Secondly the course is rambling with no structure and much repetition. The first three CDs treat the conditional, conditional perfect and the modal verbs ad nauseam. Such repetition is totally superfluous on a recorded course. If the listener wants to repeat a section, he can do this with the touch of a button on his CD player, there is no need to repeat the same material again and again on the recording. Only on the last CD does Michel Thomas move on to more advanced structures like the subjunctive. The ... Read More:

Rating:

- Michel Thomas 8 hour course; my impressions
I found this to be largely everthing it claims; but not the first time around. In other words I was not able to remember all I learned from a single listening to the CDs. But by the time I was on the third round of listening, I felt much more confident and remembered much more. The teacher's voice and approach is very relaxing and suited me down to the ground. I enjoyed listening to the other students on the recording and hearing their mistakes - same as mine. Mind you on the third listening I found that I made far fewer mistakes and became a bit impatient with them! I am now going on to buy the next one; the language builder set of 2 CDs, before I splash out to buy the Advanced set of 4 CDs. For learning on one's own, I have found this ... Read More:

Rating:

- The best possible way for adults to acquire a new language
The amazing method of Michel Thomas (1914 - 2005)

I first heard of him while learning French at school, where our teacher mentioned a man who taught by replacing the standard institutional classroom setting with armchairs, carpets and potted plants. This may have been the demonstration that Thomas gave at Islington Sixth Form Centre (teaching French to six students who had already failed the language GSCEs they had taken), which was the subject of a BBC documentary shown in 1997.

A few years later I was listening to Radio 4's Front Row, where they were reviewing Michel Thomas' biography The Test of Courage, Christopher Robbins 1999. They were discussing the part where Thomas was being tortured by the Milice: as he was thinking ... Read More:

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