Michel Thomas total French

[Fred]

It's worth it for 30 quid. But see if you can borrow the first CD to give it a test drive before buying.

I didn't know any French and have tried School, BBC on-line, Books, & Michel Thomas.

• School: I just couldn't get on with it, but to be fair I never went to school as a kid. And when it came to Grammar and Verbs that was me out of there.
  
• BBC On-line: I have dial-up so couldn't try it properly.
  
• Books: Forget that, the last book I read was the Beano Annual and I got fed up after finding page three was about going to the train station. I don't want to go on a train.
  
• Michel Thomas: I would rate it 8/10 but like the others say you have to stick with it, I found it boring at first but if you do what he says "Don't try to remember" you start to feel it's sinking in.
  

Unlike Admiral I like the Daft Woman as I can keep up with her and feel so good when I do better than she did. The trick is to use the pause button and have your go, don't do more than 1 CD in a session and if you can, try to do a CD maybe once or twice a week. Having said that I've just started mine again but still got fed up after disc 3.

There is a review by a Teacher on Amazon.fr knocking it, but then a teacher would.

I am a French teacher. Some of my students never got beyond the "tourist French" level. What they have in common : they are brilliant, hard workers (all of them) and... they use MICHEL THOMAS !
What this method makes to learning abilities is not clear to me, but it is clearly a pleague for those who want to do more than comment the weather, buy an Eiffel tower or ask for a direction. They can't get over a beginner level. They can say "une taaaaaable" (and let people make fun of them)but they can't transfer that knowledge.
Assimil did better 50 years ago !
RUN AWAY FROM MICHEL THOMAS (except if it is just for Holiday French).

You can read it here

I would say the Michel Thomas CDs have helped and gave me the confidence to have a go, and I have found having a go is the way to do it. Just dive in and you will soon find the French will respect you for trying, especially around this area.

I have found it's the English that pull me up the most for the way I speak French, one even told me "Your French is not very good, it sounds like country French" This is a family forum so I won't post my exact reply, but it was along the lines of That's good cause I live in the country and I'm happy with my basic French so leave me alone.

Jen don't get to hung up about speaking French, learn a few polite basics and the French people will love you for it.

Thanks to Michel Thomas, I know how to ask for a new size 14 wingnut for the radius arm of my fold up camping taaaaaable.