Publisher's Synopsis
Learn another language the way you learnt your own. You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Mandarin 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 you to reconstruct the language yourself - to form your own sentences, to say what you want, when you want.
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 Mandarin in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.
You learn through listening and speaking - the way you learnt your own language.
You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.
Dr Harold Goodman was trained by Michel Thomas to understand his Method of teaching. On these recordings he is assisted by native Mandarin speaker Jingtao Deng.
This Review course picks up on the main teaching points of the 8-hour Foundation Course, and you can use it to check or consolidate your learning, as a quick refresher of what you've learned, or as an overview of the main course. You'll hear the teacher teaching a specific point, there is a pause which allows time for you to give your response to the teacher's prompt, followed by the teacher giving the correct response. You can use the index in the accompanying booklet to locate where in the main course the specific language point was taught in depth so that you can return to it to work through the relevant section again, quickly and efficiently. Only the teacher's words and phrases are on the Review course, so the course is summarised succinctly at a snappy pace.
These all-audio courses are accompanied by an index, where the Mandarin words are printed in Roman script and translated, for easy reference.
This 2-hour Mandarin Foundation Review is one of the Michel Thomas Method Mandarin courses published by Hodder Arnold, the others being the 8-hour Foundation Course, the 5-hour Advanced Course, and the 1-hour Advanced Review. The 2-hour Introductory Course comprises the first 2 hours of the Foundation Course.
