Customer Reviews
Excellent follow on to the 8 hr course - By: Rugby leaguer, 14 Aug 2006 
Michel continues on from the first course & it's pretty seamless -no sudden jump. He moves onto the subjunctive which is advanced stuff & towards the end he counts up the tenses he has covered & it is around 15. The only reason I don't give it five stars is that it doesn't do much grammar - you would never know that there was life beyond der (ie den,des,dem). I've been using Lisa Kahlen's German Grammar Made Easy for that. I'd love to know how this course compares with Linguaphone Advanced German & Hugo's Advanced German.
Advanced German made easy - By: , 07 Oct 2004 
As with the original 8-CD set, this new, 4-CD, 5-hour course is an astonishingly rapid & easy route to confidencein German. As before, there is no textbook or writing, just listening & repeating. Superficially, Michel seems more schoolmasterly & demanding than the teachers I remember from my schooldays but his method is so imaginative & fluid that I was able to easily & confidently construct sentences with several verbsin all sorts of tenses without ever having to realise what "imperfect subjunctive" & "future indicative" mean. German can be a challenging language to learn, but this course gives an instinctive, natural grasp of language without the formality of grammatical rules but with all the linguistic skill you will need. As with the original course, you will get a natural grasp of the structures of German, to a level beyond two years of evening classes. Of course, there is much more to learnin terms of vocabulary & verbs not coveredin the course, but once you have the instinctive grasp of structure that Michel gives, it's easy to add new words onto the framework you have learnt. I have several German books & CDs, but the Michel Thomas courses are outstandingin giving speedy confidence whilst feeling natural & easy. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend his courses to anyone learning German.
