Michel Thomas Method Speak Russian Advanced
by admin on September 9, 2010
Experience the language learning method millions around the world have come to trust to learn Russian Unlike most language learning systems, the Michel Thomas Method enables you to naturally and intuitively develop the building blocks for language comprehension. You can learn at your own speed–listening, speaking, and thinking through the language. Guided by a language instructor and native speakers, Michel Thomas Method Speak Russian Advanced CD takes you through an interactive lesson with two other learners. By the end of the program, you’ll have an advanced vocabulary, polished conversation skills, and the confidence to speak in Russian.
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First, if you completed the Russian foundation course then you absolutely need to continue with this “Advanced course”. Here are the good points:
* Clear, not-too-fast pronunciation by the teacher
* More grammar, especially the accusative case (finally!) Now you can correctly conjugate direct object nouns. Perfective and imperfective verbs are introduced.
* Some more vocabulary
* Nice pace which builds on earlier material
As with the foundation course, there are still some negative points:
* Vocabulary is spotty. For instance, you’ll learn the word for “breakfast” but not “lunch” or “dinner”. You’ll learn the word for “tomorrow” but not “today”, or “yesterday”.
* Essential vocabulary is missing. You still won’t be able to say “hello”, or “goodbye”. You won’t be able to count to 10. You won’t be able to tell the time, or say what day or month it is.
* The grammar doesn’t advance very far. You only learn the accusative case, not the dative, prepositional, genitive or instrumental cases. It’s true that the prepositions “v” and “na” are introduced, but the nouns added to them in this course don’t need to change. In general this is not true. The prepositional and dative cases are very often used in Russian so this is a big omission.
* I found the explanation of the imperfective and perfective verbs a bit brief and confusing. After finishing the course I don’t feel confident to correctly decide which one to use in different situations.
I definitely recommend getting this course in order to build on the last course, but I don’t agree that this course should be entitled “Advanced Russian”. It really should be “upper beginner”. The course really needs a builder course for the grammar and a vocabulary course to fill in the holes.
I feel this course is easier than the Pimsleur course because in the Pimsleur course the grammar used jumps around, from simple to very difficult, and you’ll be scratching your head why the words are conjugated as they are. But the Pimsleur course does have all the essential vocabulary that’s missing from this Michel Thomas course.
THIS IS A WONDERFUL PRODUCT. I HAVE BOTH MICHEL THOMAS AND PIMSLEUR RUSSIAN PRODUCTS THAT I PURCHASED FROM AMAZON AND THEY ARE BOTH WONDERFUL. THEY COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER BECAUSE THE METHODS AND VOCABULARY ARE SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT AS WELL AS THE TEACHING METHODS. MICHEL THOMAS GIVES YOU A LITTLE MORE GRAMMAR RULES. ALSO WITH MICHEL THOMAS THERE IS A TEACHER AND TWO STUDENTS INTERACTING. THE TEACHER IS A NATIVE RUSSIAN I ASSUME BUT SHE HAS THE MOST WONDERFUL ENGLISH ACCENT WHEN SHE SPEAKS ENGLISH. SHE IS UNBELIEVABLY ANIMATED AND A PLEASURE TO LISTEN TO (BOTH HER RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH) AS YOU INTERACT WITH HER. I TRULY RECOMMEND BOTH MICHEL THOMAS AND PIMSLEUR.