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Learn another language the way you learnt your own! As a child, you learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Russian in the same way. There's no books and no writing, and you will achieve confidence - in hours. With the "Michel Thomas Method", you learn the language in small steps, building it up yourself to produce ever more complicated sentences. The Method works as it breaks down the language into its component parts, enabling learners to reconstruct the language themselves - to form their own sentences, to say what they want, when they want. On the recording you will hear two students being taught in real time and in a classroom situation, so you are learning with others. You enjoy their success and learn from their mistakes. You, as learner, become the third student and participate actively in the class. In a very short time you will be able to manipulate Russian structures to express what you want to say. You can use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas. The Method works WITH your brain, helping you to build up your Russian in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself. You learn through listening and speaking - the way you learnt as a child. You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably. These all-audio courses are accompanied by an index, where the Russian words are printed in Roman script and translated, for easy reference. If you want to learn it, the Cyrillic alphabet is taught on a dedicated audio track and shown in the booklet; but you don't have to know the Cyrillic script to learn Russian with the Michel Thomas Method. This 8-hour "Russian Foundation Course" is one of the Michel Thomas Method Russian courses published by Hodder Arnold, the others being the 5-hour "Advanced Course", the 2-hour "Foundation Review" and the 1-hour "Advanced Review".

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Easiest, most effective method of language learning  
This is the best method of language learning I've ever experienced. In a few days, I have gained a good understanding of how the language works and am now able to converse with my Russian boyfriend and understand a lot of what his family are talking about at the dinner table! It took me many years to gain the same knowledge of German in a classroom. It is also very enjoyable because I was constantly amazed by how much I could say without any effort at all. I did the whole course (foundation and advanced) in 3 days because I enjoyed it so much and didn't want to stop! Since then, I have also done the entire Michel Thomas French course and, in response to one of the reviews of the Russian foundation course, I didn't think it was any better than the Russian course. His method is brilliant and has been expertly adapted for the Russian course. I didn't find that the students' mistakes confused me at all and it was always made clear when they made mistakes. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Very good method, but not sure it deserves the title "Advanced"  
The Michel Thomas method is excellent for anyone who wants to gain a proper understanding of Russian, in comparison to other methods out there which I have tried, which tend to just drill into you phrases that you can quickly regurgitate (although this does improve speed).

However, I was disappointed to find that this "Advanced" course only really covers 2 of the 6 noun cases in Russian, and since these are shared with English, I would really put this in the "Foundation" category. Also, the course does not cover other things like transitive verbs; something I am only just starting to get my head around.

To give you an idea, there are 4 different ways of saying the word "my," depending on whether or not the direct object is male, female, neuter or plural; respectively: moy, moya, moyo, moi. No worries here, and you are taught this, as well as the 2nd case in Russian, the "accusative" case, in which the female changes to moyu.

What you are NOT taught, is that there are a further 4 cases, in which nearly all of the endings change depending on what you want to say, essentially 4 endings for nouns (male, female, neuter and plural), times 6 cases = 24, and since you only learn 8 endings with this course (2 cases), you will have to find another way of learning the remaining 16!

What is most disappointing is that there doesn't appear to be any intention of covering these areas, which are absolutely crucial for you to speak and comprehend Russian correctly. All the publishers are doing is releasing a "vocabulary" set in April, which unless I am mistaken, is just going improve your collection of words and phrases, not take your abilities in Russian any further than the foundation level this course remains at.

So, while the method is excellent, don't expect to be speaking Russian particularly well by the end of this course!
Ideal for gaining confidence in Russian  
I bought this course without having followed the Foundation Course in the same series - I'd learnt some Russian through other self-study courses, and wanted to take things further. I managed to get into this course straight away, as you can follow the lessons easily without reference to the previous course. In fact, I'd say that Russian learners across a range of levels could get into this quite quickly - most of the material is presented and explained as new language, and you can pick up any words you haven't covered as everything is translated into English anyway.

The teacher-pupil format isn't unique to audio courses, but it works particularly well here; the teacher (an amenable but quite strict Russian lady!) takes her male and female student through a series of short grammatical / vocabulary points and subsequent translation exercises. It's quite fun to try and preempt the students in these tasks, and beat them to saying the Russian out loud!

I was surprised how well and clearly the grammatical points were put across; for instance, I've not come across a clearer explanation of imperfective and perfective aspect in verbs than in this course - the teacher's way of explaining this particular point may not be the orthodox route, but it made more sense than any dry grammar.

In short, it's fantastic for teaching you some important rules to improve your confidence in Russian, and get you used to using what you know to communicate (and not overcomplicating things by translating word for word!).
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