Synopsis
Looking for a convenient language course that fits your lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of weeks, not years? The original no-books, no-homework, no-memorizing method is in tune with the way the brain prefers to receive, store and retrieve information. You'll stick with it because you'll love it.
* Pick up Swedish naturally and unforgettably without strain or stress
* Learn from listening and speaking, without the pressure of writing or memorizing
* Build up your Swedish in manageable steps by thinking out answers for yourself
* Progress to the full Foundation Swedish course with confidence in the method.
HOW DO THE COURSES WORK?
During the course, you will join Michel Thomas Method Teachers Roger Nyborg, Håkan Rosenqvist and two students in a live lesson, learning from both their successes and their mistakes to keep you motivated and involved throughout the course. You, as the learner, become the third student and participate actively in the class. Within the very first hour you will be able to construct simple phrases by listening and thinking out answers for yourself without the pressure of writing or stress of having to memorize. You will learn at your own pace, pausing and repeating where necessary, and complete the course in about 3-5 hours.
WHAT WILL I ACTUALLY ACHIEVE?
The Michel Thomas Method will help you kick-start, continue, and flourish in your Swedish language learning journey. It is not intended to get you perfectly fluent, but it will get you speaking and using Swedish, with proper pronunciation, faster than most any other method. It is designed to give you a strong foundation and good working knowledge of a language from which you can expand and later 'add decoration' to. It is a rapid method for learning, but still requires effort and concentration on the part of the learner.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE COURSE?*
Start Swedish includes one audio CD. The booklet is available to download from www.michelthomas.com.
WHERE DO I GO NEXT?
Foundation Swedish follows on from the Start course.
About the Author
Roger Nyborg has been teaching Swedish as a foreign and second language since 1969, both in Sweden and abroad, including for 25 years at Stockholm University. He has written several books for learning Swedish, both for beginners and more advanced students.
Håkan Rosenqvist has taught Swedish for more than 40 years, to immigrants and university students, as a lecturer abroad and moreover in Swedish teacher training programmes. He has published material such as a course book on Swedish prepositions (Prepositionsboken), a pronunciation manual (Uttalsboken), a course in Swedish syntax (Syntaxboken). He is managing the oral part of the Swedish language academic entrance test, named Tisus, given twice a year at Swedish universities and at a number of institutions around the world.
Michel Thomas (1914-2005) had an amazing life. Born in Poland, he spent his early years in Germany and then in France, where he studied psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. When war broke out, he fought with the Resistance and suffered imprisonment in labour camps. At the end of the war he joined the US liberation army and later settled in the US where he established his world-famous language school. Languages, being his strength and passion became the focus of the next 50 years of his life that he spent developing a method that he hoped would change the way we teach and learn - so that everyone could succeed. He developed this method 'that works with the brain'. After creating several courses of his own, he passed on his method so that other teachers might use it too.
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