I bought this Michael Thomas set at the same time I bought Mark Frobose's "Behind the Wheel Spanish", also from Amazon.com. These two courses compliment each other extremely well. Michel Thomas immediatly gets one really thinking in Spanish as he forces the learner to build longer and longer sentences as he builds a higher and higher foundation. It's a real challenge, but Michel makes it so much fun. There is some vocabulary too, but that is Mark Frobose's strong point.
"Behind the Wheel Spanish" is equally as great, but in a different way. The excellent instructor pounds common vocabulary and grammar into the learner by way of repetition (and native speakers), but repetition that is fun. One never knows that one is building a huge vocabulary and building a solid grammatical base to build on. Any kind of overlap is complimentary. "Behind the Wheel Spanish" gets down and dirty with learning the alphabet, numbers, time, the weather, and a million other daily ordinary actions and vocabulary words that everyone around the world uses in daily conversation. Of course there is conversation too, but that is Michel's strong point.
To illustrate how they work together: Early in the course, Michel Thomas will quickly have you asking of someone who speaks Spanish if they could confirm that a reservation in a restaurant was made and if not why; Early in his course, Mark Frobose (Behind the Wheel) deals with vocabulary that will help you to make sure the reservation is for the correct amount of people, the right day of the week and for the right time of night!
Buy them both for less than a hundred bucks, and you will have so much fun learning spanish from two true masters of language learning! |
Michel Thomas Speak Spanish For Beginners: 10-CD Beginner's Program (Michel Thomas Speak...) Books In Print, Audio Books.