Michel Thomas Academy method

The Michel Thomas Method is a popular approach in language learning, with a range of language courses available for beginners. British newspaper The Times has called the Michel Thomas Method “The nearest thing to painless learning.”

Michel Thomas courses are all in audio, and you learn by pausing the audio and translating the teacher’s spoken phrases into the target language. No videos, no flashcards. No reading or writing. You can sit there with your eyes closed and not worry about writing stuff down or watching for visual and audio clues at the same time. In the audio, you join two other students in a virtual “classroom”. You listen in on the students’ lesson, and complete simple language challenges with them. When the other students are asked to translate a phrase, you’re meant to pause the playback, and translate it yourself first.

Over time, you’re encouraged to use the phrases you’ve learned as building blocks to create longer sentences. There are no useless sentences like “The business meeting has been moved to the yacht”, which only a certain type of traveler would want to learn.
Instead, you learn phrases like:
“Why don’t you want to go there today?”
“Where did you eat yesterday?”
“I don’t need this, but I want it.”
The Michel Thomas course avoids teaching a lot of specific vocabulary, which saves you from memorising.

How does this work? Rather than teaching a big list of nouns, it teaches “this”, “that” and “it”, so you can at least point to an object and talk about it without knowing its name.

So, with our app "Language learning library" you will able to learn 12 new languages. The Michel Thomas course claims that you’ll “go from absolute beginner to confident speaker” , and technically, you will!