All in all a very valuable tool!!
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Having been a new student to learning spanish i have found michel Thamos an inspiration to developing an understanding of the structure of the spanish language.
Used in conjunction with other audio courses, i find a lot of his teaching useful in working out how the spanish language is built.
I feel that this course needs to have a follow up in the same context to reinforce developed ideas,that may have been only slightly addressed,ie the subjunctive(present and past).
At present i am using the pimsleur language course as i find this has native speakers and is more in tune with the correct pronuncuation.
I am afraid michel with his strong german background accent seems to taint the pronunciation somewhat.
All in all a very valuable tool in the persuit of my spanish studies.
If any one can recommend further courses of similar nature please let me know.
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The man is a genius!
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I have wanted to learn spanish for a number of years, and tried a number of other products before discovering the Michel Thomas series. I enjoyed the Spanish foundation course and,having completed that, moved swiftly on to the Advanced Course.
The students in this course are clearly more advanced and the pace is appropriate. Michel explains everything in a very clear way as usual and covers the ground very well. I cannot fault this series in any way and now feel ready to return to Spain with more confidence in my language abilities.
Definitely a "must buy" - I only wish there was another course to go onto after this one!
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Onwards and upwards
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Having listened to the foundation course, the advanced course continues
in the same vein, but with far less annoying students. As an aid to further developing my language skills I found it engaging and at a pace that neither let me get bored nor left me behind. These cd's gave me the confindence to try my spanish with the spanish in spain and made potentially tricky situations go smoothly. Also they have given me an excellent headstart with spanish literature. My goal now is to read all the Harry Potter books in spanish and not just 'The Philospher's Stone'. Excellent.
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This is top-drawer teaching; simply the best; highly recommended.
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I bought this about a year after starting to learn Spanish with Michel Thomas through his superb Foundation Course, followed by his Language Builder (both also highly recommended).
This is an excellent addition to the Foundation Course. It starts with some revision and then begins to break really important new ground, particularly with devices reminding us when to use, and how to construct, the various Spanish past tenses.
And then comes the dreaded subjunctive - rare in English but very common in Spanish. Again Michel teaches us, painlessly and amusingly, when to use it and how to construct it. This course makes these absolutely vital rules of Spanish grammar far clearer and easier to understand than any other that I have heard or read - (and I have heard or read quite a few).
The format on this CD is back to that of the Foundation Course, with two genuine (seemingly) students in class with Michel. We become, with our pause button, the third student. The pace is faster than the Foundation Course, as one would expect, so there is time for a lot of very valuable instruction to be included.
This is top-drawer teaching; simply the best; highly recommended.
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Much better than his foundation course
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As someone who has completed both his introductory and advanced courses, I feel well placed to comment on this. This course is superior to his introductory course in three ways: firstly, the students you "sit in" with are much better than in the introductory course, and therefore make less of the annoying pauses and mistakes of the introductory course. Secondly, he is much more focussed and covers a tremendous depth and breadth of the language as opposed to simply slightly re-working example sentences that is a feature of his foundation course. Finally, he introduces the student to a number of very useful, ingenious short cuts ("eh and oh, ee and yoh" being a short hand way to remember verb endings in one tense, and my personal favourite amongst the short cuts).
Another advantage of this course over the introductory course is it is cheaper, and thus gives you "more bang for your buck", which coupled with the detail and focussed topics, is a great investment for the serious learner.
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