Series: Michel Thomas Series
Audio CD
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 25, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071488111
ISBN-13: 978-0071488112
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.1 x 8.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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First off it's probably a good thing for you to know that the instructor on this course is not Michel Thomas himself, but was made after his passing and the material is presented by a British woman, Marion O'Dowd. Also it's refreshing that the two student speakers in the course are native Germans and not the bumbling, pronunciation-challenged beginners like have been used in the past. This couse makes a good attempt at filling in a lot of the missing pieces from the MT series as a whole such as covering the use of nouns and the related accusative, dative, and genative cases. It's curious though that they refer to them in this course by other made-up names like the "victim of the verb rule", the "belonging situation" (genative), and the "mit-von-zu situation". Why not just call them what they really are? In any case, this course is not for beginners. I wouln't even try to attempt this course unless: a) you already have a STRONG understanding of German sentence structure and grammar, or b) you have first thoroughly digested the previous three of Michel Thomas' series (the basic and advanced courses, and the Language Booster course). Falling into the latter, I found this course to be very densely packed with new vocabulary. It made my head spin the first few times I listened to it to wrap my head around so much new stuff to try and remember at once. Since I persevered and have now listened to it umpteen times, I feel it has done an exemplary job of increasing my understanding of the language. It seems that a lot more forethought went into putting together this series, compared to Michel's previous products which tended to rehash and overlap the same things over and over between the different series. I am eagerly awaiting future Michel Thomas/Marion O'Dowd expansions.
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