شاید برایتان جالب باشد که چینی را توسط کسی یاد بگیرید که ستارگان هالیود مانند وودی آلن و اما تامپسون برای شرکت در کلاسهای خصوصی اوبیش از 18000 پوند میپرداختند.
میشل توماس که به بیش از 10 زبان مختلف مسلط بود، تنها در عرض سه روز یک زبان جدید را به ستارگان سینما آموزش میداد!
میشل توماس یهودی، متولد 1914 در لهستان، در جوانی به آلمان فرستاده میشود، سپس به شهر وین در اتریش میرود. پس از اشغال اتریش توسط آلمانها به فرانسه میگریزد وپس از تحصیل روانشناسی به حزب مقاومت فرانسه میپیوندد. او مدتهای زیادی در اردوگاههای اسیران جنگی اسیر بوده و توسط گشتاپو به جهت فرارهایش شکنجه شده است.
در این زندگی پر فراز نشیب او با زبانها و فرهنگهای مختلفی آشنا میشود، به طوریکه به خاطر آموزش زبان به ارتشیان آمریکا در فرانسه، درسال 1994 نامزد مدال ستاره نقره ای میشود.
او میگوید: « زندگی در دوران اسارت بسیار سخت بود اما من خودم را سرگرم میکردم.»
پس از جنگ در سال 1947، وی به لس آنجلس رفته و مرکز آموزش زبان میشل توماس را تاسیس میکند و بعد از 50 سال آموزش زبان به علت سکته قلبی در سال 2005 از دنیا میرود.
« چیزی به نام دانش آموز ضعیف نداریم، این معلمها هستند که ضعیفند! »
این شعار این موسسه آموزشی است. برای یادگیری زبان به این روش شما نیاز به هیچ کتابی ندارید، نه بخاطر سپردن و نه تکلیف خانه!
برای استفاده از این دوره، شما باید تا حدی به زبان انگلیسی مسلط باشید تا بتوانید همراه دو دانشجوی دیگر در کلاس مجازی میشل توماس شرکت کنید. او با استفاده از روشهای روانشناسی و با استفاده از شباهتهای مکالمات انگلیسی و چینی ، به دانشجویان خود این توانایی را میدهد که جملاتی را که نمیدانند، یا فکر میکنند نمیدانند را حدس بزنند.
Foundation Course دوره آموزش مبتدیان است که پس از اتمام این دوره هشت ساعته، قادر خواهید بود در موقعیتهای مختلف به چینی صحبت کنید و نیاز خود را برآورده سازید.
توضیحات انگلیسی :
Summary:
Learn another language the way you learnt your own
You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Mandarin in the same way.
You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it
· Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.
· This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Mandarin in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.
· You learn through listening and speaking – without the pressure of writing or memorising.
· You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.
The NEW Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course
* Learn another language the way you learnt your own
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Effective method - the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain
* Motivating - live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
* All-audio - the way you want to learn
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Revolutionary kinaesthetic method for teaching Mandarin tones
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Pronunciation is gently - but effectively - corrected
* Reference booklet - accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Mandarin (transliterated script)
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Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced, and Vocabulary
* Sales record - the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Mandarin.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. How to use this course. Background to Chinese languages.
Tones in Mandarin
The form of the verb in Chinese languages doesn’t change: e.g. shì (‘to be’) also means ‘am, are, is, was, will be’
wo = ‘I’ and also ‘me’: form of pronoun doesn’t change in Mandarin
There is no word for ‘a’ or ‘an’
ni = ‘you’
ta = ‘he, him, she, her, it’
Words for nationalities
Add men to pronouns (‘I, me’ etc.) to form plural (more than one): women = ‘we, us ’ etc.
ma = question marker, to change a statement into a question’ Goes at the end of the statement.
ne added to mean ‘how about ...?’
Adjectives, such as ‘busy’, in Mandarin, are also verbs: máng means ‘to be busy’
To form a negative, put bù = ‘no, not’ in front of the verb
Add hen to fulfil the two-syllable meter rule (also means ‘very’)
Greetings ni hao and ni hao ma (‘hello’ = ‘you good’, ‘how are you’ = ‘you good (question)’
In Chinese the character/word has the same form for both individual and plural form
In front of another falling-tone word, bù (falling tone) becomes bú (rising tone)("trampoline" rule)
Question with a question word, such as ‘why?’
Use zài to emphasize ‘now, at this very moment’
Word order in Chinese: who—when—what is happening
xiang = ‘would like to’
néng = ‘can’
Add de to pronouns ‘I’ etc. to form ‘my, mine’ etc.: wode
Words for languages
xiang = ‘would like to’ in Mandarin can only be followed by a verb
Word order in Chinese: who–when–how–what is happening
Demonstrative pronouns ‘this’ and ‘that’
Answering ‘yes’ and ‘no’ without repeating the verb in the question: shì = ‘is’, bù = ‘not’
Chinese construction ‘too…to do’ is ‘too...no can do’
Question word ‘what?’
How to answer ‘What is this?’, and ‘What is that?’
shuo = ‘to speak, say’
huì = ‘to be able to’
Question word ‘who?’
‘a, an, one’ (
yí ge)
zài (= ‘at’ etc.) in Chinese can be used as and functions as a verb, so zài jia = ‘to be at home’
Question word ‘where?’
zhù (zài) = ‘live, stay’
Prepositions (‘on’ etc.) go after the noun in Mandarin: ‘[to be] at the table on’
you = ‘to have, I have, he has, I had’ etc.
Negative of ‘to have’ formed with méi: méi you = ‘not have’
yào = ‘to want’ etc.; bú yào = ‘not want’
qu = ‘go to’
= ‘today’
you (‘to have’ etc.) also = ‘there is, there are’
[zài ] zhèr, nàr = ‘[to be] here, there’
mei tian = ‘every day’
you de = ‘(there is) some’
Three ways to say ‘yes’: repeat the verb; shì ( = ‘to be’ etc.); duì (= ‘correct’)
yào shuo = ‘want to speak’
néng shuo = ‘can speak’
When to say xiè xie (= ‘thanks’)
zài jiàn = ‘Good bye’ (= ‘again meet’)
lái = ‘come’
About the Author(s):
Dr Harold Goodman is a physician and surgeon, who had Michel Thomas as his teacher for nearly ten years. During this time Michel Thomas"s goal was not to teach Dr Goodman a specific language (though he did instruct him in two of the languages he taught) but to train him to understand his method of teaching - which he then used to teach others, with great success. Dr Goodman teaches and practises in the United States.
Readership:
Self-access course for adult beginners
Reviews:
"A genuine breakthrough in teaching Mandarin"
The Guardian
"A great way to learn; it"s fast and it lasts".
The Daily Telegraph
"Five minutes into the first CD, you already feel like you"re winning."
Time Out
"Michel Thomas is a precious find indeed."
The Guardian
"Thomas makes it simple"
Sunday Times
"Michel"s methods will teach you effectively and easily"
Daily Star
"Hugely inspiring"
Red
"Ideal for any business traveller who needs to be able to get around confidently."
Sunday Business
Moving along at a relaxed, slow pace, punctuated by amusing anecdotes and jokes from the teacher, the new words, phrases and language rules are gently introduced and reinforced through subtle repetition without ever being tedious. In fact, despite a distinct emphasis on non-work, the course proves very effective and enjoyable, and its format is ideal for learning anywhere you like. So, if you only want to learn to speak the language, this course is highly recommended.
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