Insider's Italian (Michel Thomas Method) - Full course: Learn Italian with the Michel Thomas Method(Italian (Michel Thomas Method))

The most extraordinary learning experience of my life. - Emma Thompson, in the Guardian
Do you want to be able to express yourself in French with confidence and fluency?
Insider's Italian offers a genuine perspective on Italophone culture, opinions and language use so that you can speak confidently on topical issues that are key to the Italian speaker today.

This intermediate Italian conversation course, devised for all intermediate-level learners will advance your overall fluency, listening comprehension and conversation skills, expand your vocabulary and improve your grammar. Through authentic, lively conversations around engaging topics, and the unique Michel Thomas Method for learning, this course focuses on the colloquial language and conversation strategies used by native Italian speakers so that you can fit in and communicate more naturally.


I am the architect who builds the house; it's up to you to decorate it. - Michel Thomas

Michel Thomas, the preeminent language teacher, always said that learners start by mastering basic structures (as in his Foundation and Intermediate courses), which provide the bare walls of the house, but that it was up to us, the learners, to decorate it in our own personal way. Insider's Italian reflects Michel Thomas's 'Phase two' courses which were offered at his New York language school and focused on building the language and skills to use the language confidently in authentic contexts - the tools with which to decorate their houses.

Insider's Italian includes:

* Twenty authentic conversations around a comprehensive range of subjects that reflect contemporary Italian culture
* Language plus: conversation strategies, pronunciation, and intonation to help learners express themselves naturally
* Listening and speaking practice to help learners progress to the next level
* Cultural insights into the unspoken rules of the language

WHAT IS NEXT?
Generally, this is the recommended order for the Michel Thomas Method language courses:

1. Foundation
2. Language Builder
3. Intermediate
4. Vocabulary Course
5. Insider's


PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying 100+ page book PDF will be available in your Library along with the audio.


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About the Author :
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. 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. Paola Tite is a teacher of Italian, author of Italian language books and an editorial consultant. As a native speaker of Italian, Paola attended Michel Thomas's Italian workshops and recording sessions at Hodder & Stoughton, and became an enthusiastic follower of his approach not only to language learning but to teaching in general. Virginia Catmur grew up in a multilingual environment, and used her language skills working as a freelancer for various publishers. In early 2002 she met Michel Thomas while working for Hodder & Stoughton as a language editor - working alongside Michel in the studio, she edited his courses, and then managed the roll-out of the 'post-Michel' languages, commissioning and training other teachers who were similarly convinced by his Method.