German Foundation Course

by Michel Thomas

Michel Thomas's approach to language learning aims to provide in a few hours a functional working knowledge of a language without books, note-taking or conscious memorizing. This CD pack provides an eight-hour course in German plus a 2-CD review course.

10 pages, Paperback

First published September 29, 2006

About the author

Michel Thomas (born Moniek (Moshe) Kroskof, February 3, 1914 – January 8, 2005) was a polyglot linguist, language teacher, and decorated war veteran. He survived imprisonment in several different Nazi concentration camps after serving in the Maquis (World War II) of the French Resistance and worked with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II. After the war, Thomas emigrated to the United States, where he developed a language-teaching system known as the Michel Thomas Method. In 2004 he was awarded the Silver Star by the U.S. Army.

Reviews

[Irena Pasvinter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely useful and helpful, as all the other Michel Thomas' courses. The next best thing to having lessons with a real teacher, and not just any teacher, but an excellent one.

Update: I first listened to this audio course in 2015. Since then I put studying German aside and got back to it, a few times. Anyway, in 2022, after reading Basic German Grammar from Practice Makes Perfect series, this course is just as useful and helpful.

Michel Thomas gives an excellent inroduction into the language, a perfect trampoline from which to jump further into the language world, a firm scaffolding on which to continue building your knowledge.

[Amr Fahmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

For the first time I find it difficult with Michel Thomas.. surely not because of him but of course German is not that easy.. especially compared to Spanish, French or Italian.