Audio CD: 40 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins UK (September 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007363958
ISBN-13: 978-0007363957
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 2.4 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #390,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #22 in Books > Books on CD > Languages > Language Instruction > French #679 in Books > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar > Study & Teaching
I have tried a number of French language courses: they begin, generally, with some pronunciation, discuss some grammar and then slowly build into more generalised conversation. I find them tedious.Paul Noble's version - as noted by an earlier review - is similar to that espoused as the Michel Thomas method (there's a trademark in there) and (in my view) works extremely well. Simple sentence structures - I have, I have eaten, I have learned, etc are built up gradually and with suitable variation that, in remarkably little time, you have enough to start creating your own sentences to cover a variety of ideas. How is that possible? By introducing some simple yet powerful 'rules' of etymology, the listener is able to really get some variety into the course material and avoid the dreary limitations of a small vocabulary that generally create the tedium of the early part of any language course.The difference from Michel Thomas - and potential buyers will find detailed reviews of that structure elsewhere and so I won't repeat it here - is that the person covering the French is a native French speaker; Michel Thomas (at least in the French language course) uses a couple of students who are (like the listener) learning French for the first time. I enjoyed the identification with the students on the Michel Thomas recording. But two things would actually make me recommend this rather than the other course:1. students don't always get it right and, on the French course at least, there were a lot of mistakes that, unfortunately, made their way into my brain.2. Michel Thomas has something of a tin ear.
This is definitely the most advanced way to learn a language. I speak 3 languages already, so I went through many learning experiences, french is my 4th language. Many people say that Paul Noble stole the Thomas Mitchel method, well please relax, this is not true, and by the way, I dont like the speech quality and the students sitting in Thomas Mitchell's sessions, so don't come with this argument.All that Paul Noble does is explaining a language in a most easy and effective way. If you ask me, this is just the logical way to learn a language effectively. Along with this product I developed main rules of learning a language that I can give to everyone here along:1. Start with a base product like the Paul Nobles CD to get a kickstart2. Learn 1000 most used words of a language, there are lists for this on the internet3. Hire an online teacher from italki.com and talk to him every day 30 mins, just discussing your daily stuff, talk about things from your life, dont create boring topics as you know it from school4. While talking to the teacher, write your words to a google document to work on them later and see what words are hard to remember for you with time5. Always learn words with some context, never try to memorize words randomly, so if you memorize a word always within a small sentence6. Avoid learning senseless word groups, like all parts of the body in one shot, this is the wrong way7. Record your new vocabulary everyday to your smartphone and listen to it several times during the day while doing something else8. Sing your words along to some melody and create something like a karaoke song and listen to it9.
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