duff packaging The content is fine - nothing to write home about, and certainly not earth shattering - you still have to do the hard work, mainly staying awake...but, the packaging is awful! What a waste of bookshelf space - a slimline double cd jewel case would have been perfect and sat happily with the rest of the cds.
Excellent confidence building introduction; great technique. This is an excellent, confidence building introduction to Spanish with a great teaching technique. There are two good header reviews by other contributors to read; one is entitled "Michel Thomas - Learning Through Understanding" (The most helpful favourable review) and the other is "He should have ditched the English guy" (The most helpful critical review). I agree entirely with them both and do not wish to repeat what they already say very well but would only wish to emphasise two things:- 1. The male... more info
Excellent if you're serious about learning Spanish I've just completed both this and the advanced course and I think that they are both excellent and achieve very well what they set out to do. I think that a lot of the criticism of the courses come from people who do not know before they buy them what Michel's methods are about. These courses will -
- give you a solid grounding in the structure of the Spanish language
- teach American Spanish rather than Spanish Spanish if you get what I mean, though as far as I can tell the... more info
Terrific
Absolutely terrific, the send of achievement gained after doing this is tremendous, I can now hold sensible conversations with a family member who studied at university in spain. I was thrilled to do this course, and am now doing the advanced one.
