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Michel Thomas Complete V2
Type:
Audio > Audio books
Files:
175
Size:
8.13 GB

Spoken language(s):
English
Tag(s):
Michel Thomas language learn languages
Quality:
+1 / -0 (+1)

Uploaded:
Aug 7, 2008
By:
JoeKane567



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                   = MICHEL THOMAS - THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS =
                   =        VERSION 2 - 6 AUGUST, 2008       =
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                   By Joe Kane. Seeded on www.thepiratebay.ee

                                    CONTENTS

                                 1. Introduction
                           2. How to use Michel Thomas
                   3. New materials in Version 2 of the torrent
                          4. Future publishing schedule
                     5. Complete index of files in the torrent

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                   YOU DON'T NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE TORRENT
 
              If you already have version 1 of this torrent, get the 
                "Michel Thomas Complete V2 Update" torrent instead.
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             PLEASE HELP ME PRODUCE TRANSCRIPTS FOR THE NEW COURSES

  The transcripts included in the torrent are immensely valuable. My health is 
too poor to produce any new ones, and none of the new courses have transcripts.

Hodder have made clear that they won't be producing their own transcripts, nor 
     will they be publishing “Review” materials for any of the new courses.

If you'd like to thank me for spending over $1000 in buying this stuff, please 
               help me to produce transcripts for the new courses. 
              No new transcripts produced = no more uploads from me! 
            No new transcripts produced = No version 3 of the torrent!

     Email me at joekane567@googlemail.com if you can 10-30 hours to spare
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1. INTRODUCTION

Thank you for downloading this torrent. It contains:
 - All the Michel Thomas Method recordings now available for English speakers 
   (in Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese,    
   Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) 
 - Two of the seven courses now available for French speakers
 - Transcripts of the recordings published before 2007
 - Scans of the booklets which accompany most of the courses
 - Some miscellaneous material

It does not yet contain:
 - the remaining courses published for native French speakers (teaching 
   English, Spanish and Chinese - see www.harraps-audio.harrap.com), 
 - the materials produced for schools (see www.michelthomasforschools.co.uk), 
 - the biography of Michel Thomas ("Michel Thomas: The Test of Courage" 
   by Christopher Robbins), and the book "Michel Thomas: The Learning   
   Revolution" by Jonathan Solity
 - the remaining booklets which accompany the courses

If you have any of these, please upload them.

Please encourage Hodder to continue producing new courses by BUYING 
the recordings you think live up to the promises Hodder make for them.

 - The full courses can be purchased at a good discount from Amazon 
   (www.amazon.com) and from many other online retailers

 - The courses can be bought in a downloadable (but reduced quality) format 
   from www.audible.co.uk/michelthomas

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2. HOW TO USE MICHEL THOMAS

Not used Michel Thomas before? 

It's better to do one language at a time (not all ten simultaneously). One CD a 
day would be realistic, but you can stop studying at any point during a
recording and pick it up where you left it the next day.

Study Foundation first, then Advanced, then Vocabulary (if it's available), 
then Builder (if it's available and if you feel like it).

For full instructions, read one of the course guides in the "Miscellaneous"
folder. (The instructions are more or less the same for all courses.)

Happy learning!
 
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3. NEW MATERIALS IN VERSION 2 OF THE TORRENT

 - The brand new Foundation courses in Dutch, Japanese and Portuguese
 - Foundation and Advanced courses in English for French speakers (thanks for 
   the upload!)
 - Scans of most of the booklets that accompany the courses (thanks for the 
   upload!)
 - Some new miscellaneous material

 - All files have been compressedv by disc, not by course. You can now use a
   suitable Bit Torrent client to download a single CD, if you need it

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4. FUTURE PUBLISHING SCHEDULE

(Source: www.michelthomas.co.uk/FanClub.htm)

   26 Sep 2008     Polish Foundation
   30 Jan 2009     Dutch Advanced
                   Japanese Advanced
                   Portuguese Advanced
   27 Mar 2009     Russian Vocabulary
   24 Apr 2009     Arabic Vocabulary
   29 May 2009     Greek Foundation
   26 Jun 2009     Polish Advanced
   31 Jul 2009     Mandarin Vocabulary
   25 Sep 2009     Greek Advanced

(Source:  
http://www.harraps-audio.harrap.com/methode-pages/methode-chinois-deb.html)

   Available       Anglais Vocabulaire (English Vocabulary for French Speakers)
   Available       Espagnol Débutant (Spanish Foundation for French Speakers)
   Available       Espagnol Perfectionnement (Spanish Advanced for French
                      Speakers)
   Available       Espagnol Vocabulaire (Spanish vocabulary for French 
                      Speakers)
   Sep 2008        Chinois Débutant (Chinese for French Speakers)

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5. COMPLETE INDEX OF FILES IN THE TORRENT

OFFICIAL COURSES

  (EGYPTIAN) ARABIC

   Arabic Foundation 
      Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, 28 Sep 2007, 8 CDs

   Arabic Advanced 
      Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, 28 Mar 2008, 4 CDs

   Not included: 
      Arabic Introductory Course (28 Sep 2007) - identical to 
      the first 2 CDs of the Foundation Course.

  DUTCH

   Dutch Foundation
      Cobie Adkins-De Jong and Els Van Geyte, 25 July 2008, 8 CDs

   Not included: 
      Dutch Introductory Course (25 July 2008) - identical to 
      the first 2 CDs of the Foundation Course.

  ENGLISH

   Anglais Débutant (English Foundation for French Speakers)
      Author unknown, 21 Mar 2007, 7 CDs
 
   Anglais Perfectionnement (English Advanced for French Speakers)
      Author unknown, 21 Mar 2007, 4 CDs
   
  FRENCH 

   French Foundation
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006 (2nd Edition), 8 CDs

   French Foundation Review
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006, 2 CDs

   French Advanced 
      Michel Thomas, 1 Nov 2005 (2nd Edition), 4 CDs
	
   French Advanced Review
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006, 1 CD
	
   French Builder
      Michel Thomas, 28 Sep 2001, 2 CDs

   French Vocabulary 
      Helene Lewis, 25 May 2007, 5 CDs

  GERMAN

   German Foundation
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006 (2nd Edition), 8 CDs

   German Foundation Review
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006, 2 CDs
 
   German Advanced 
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006 (2nd Edition), 4 CDs

   German Advanced Review
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006, 1 CD

   German Builder
      Michel Thomas, 28 Sep 2001, 2 CDs

   German Vocabulary 
      Marion O'Dowd and Rose Lee Hayden, 25 May 2007, 5 CDs

  JAPANESE

   Japanese Foundation
      Helen Gilhooly, 25 July 2008, 8 CDs

   Not included: 
      Japanese Introductory Course (25 July 2008) - identical to 
      the first 2 CDs of the Foundation Course.

  ITALIAN

   Italian Foundation
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006 (2nd Edition), 8 CDs

   Italian Foundation Review
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006, 2 CDs

   Italian Advanced 
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006 (2nd Edition), 4 CDs

   Italian Advanced Review
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006, 1 CD

   Italian Builder
      Michel Thomas, 2001, 28 Sep 2001, 2 CDs

   Italian Vocabulary 
      Paola Tite and Rose Lee Hayden, 25 May 2007, 5 CDs

  MANDARIN CHINESE

   Chinese Foundation 
      Harold Goodman, 28 Sep 2007, 8 CDs

   Chinese Advanced 
      Harold Goodman, 28 Mar 2008, 4 CDs

   Not included: 
      Chinese Introductory Course (28 Sep 2007) - identical to 
      the first 2 CDs of the Foundation Course.

  PORTUGUESE

   Portuguese Foundation
      Virginia Catmur, 25 July 2008, 8 CDs

   Not included: 
      Portuguese Introductory Course (25 July 2008) - identical to 
      the first 2 CDs of the Foundation Course.

  SPANISH

   Spanish Foundation
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006 (2nd Edition), 8 CDs

   Spanish Foundation Review
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006, 2 CDs

   Spanish Advanced 
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006 (2nd Edition), 4 CDs
 
   Spanish Advanced Review
      Michel Thomas, 29 Sep 2006, 1 CD

   Spanish Builder
      Michel Thomas, 2001, 28 Sep 2001, 2 CDs

   Spanish Vocabulary 
      Rose Lee Hayden, 25 May 2007, 5 CDs

  RUSSIAN

   Russian Foundation 
      Natasha Bershadski, 28 Sep 2007, 8 CDs

   Russian Advanced 
      Natasha Bershadski, 28 Mar 2008, 4 CDs

   Not included: 
      Russian Introductory Course (28 Sep 2007) - identical to 
      the first 2 CDs of the Foundation Course.

TRANSCRIPTS

   Transcripts are available in 3 formats - .RTF, .DOC and OpenOffice - and in 
   versions with both languages, or English alone.

   Be warned that the transcripts contain (a few) errors.

      French Foundation
      French Advanced
      French Builder

      German Foundation
      German Advanced
      German Builder

      Spanish Foundation
      Spanish Advanced
      Spanish Builder

      Italian Foundation
      Italian Advanced
      Italian Builder

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL

   Course Guides
      Scans of all the booklets that appeared with courses published before
      July 2008

   "Homemade Japanese"
      A rip-off of the Michel Thomas courses by the noted Zionist, Carl Kenner. 
      Let him know what you think of his work here: carl_kenner@hotmail.com

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Comments

I'd like to make a public announcement. I am head over heels in love with the female student on the "Anglais Debutant" (English for French Speakers) course. If you download this torrent, remember - I saw her first. JK.
Thanks a lot, Joe. I've been looking for the Vocabulary discs. Much appreciated.
Wonderful!

Thanks a lot!
I checked a number of files, randomly chosen, for the German and Russian courses - and about five of the 50 or so files I checked could be played (in VLC, which is one of the best media players, that can even handle severely damaged files); the others were too heavily damaged. If this is representative of the overall quality, this upload is entirely useless.
ClassicalMusicSweden:

First question is: have you finished downloading the torrent? When VLC gives me such error messages, it's normally because I've tried to open an incomplete file.
Second question: have you tried using different software to decompress the ZIP files? (Winrar, or JustZipit, to name but two).

Third question: have you tried decompressing the ZIP files to a new folder; preferably on a new drive? Have you defragmented your hard disc recently?
What a GREAT torrent! thank you!
How the hell do you open these files? I keep getting stuck in a zip/cpgz loop.
This is excellent - thanks for all the effort!
Hi folks

Does anyone know where I can find the pdf's files?
Booklets can be downloaded from here.
Extracting Michel Thomas French Vocabulary Disc 1 - Track 01 .mp3
Error: Invalid compressed data to expand (inflate) the file

Helppp
I LOVE YOU!
I'm getting the same error as carchie:

error: invalid compressed data to inflate
file #5: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 19530774

Has anyone ran into this and fixed it?
Hi JoeKane567,
do you think you will ever make separate torrents for these? It is great that all the CDs are available, but I think it's pretty unlikely that one person wants to learn Spanish and Russian and Arabic and Chinese and French... well you get the picture.

And, well, I can't download the files separately, so it is kind of a hassle to have to dl all 8 gigs.
sjf, find "utorrent" application or any other decent client and download the files you need separately.

Thanx, JoeKane567.
Epic torrent! Downloaded and extracted the zip files without any problems whatsoever. Since then I have also personally played back a couple of files from every single CD, and didn't come across one glitch.

The sampling quality and bitrate is excellent for every recording, even in the Mandarin Chinese course where exact pronunciation is particularly important. I actually own the Russian, French and Chinese box sets and I can confirm there is no appreciable difference between the official CD recordings and this download.

100% recommended - well worth the download. I'm starting the Japanese course tomorrow. :P

Thanks a million JoeKane!
best upload ever. i previously uploaded michel thomas myself but your torrent is 100 times better!

Peace and love
Thanks for the awesome Upload.I had seeded this torrent for two weeks upon finishing the download.



I'm grateful that this is out there for our use. I had no problems what so ever in using it.

I recommend this for any student of language. This helped me a great deal, and I just wanted to thank you again...

Good luck in your language ventures.

Timothy
All, can you pls keep seeding? I keep hanging at 95+% for days now and I really want this V2!
Many thanks for this (and to Michel Thomas of course). If I could afford it I would buy it! But I'm desperate for the advanced Portuguese course. Anyone have it?
Thank you so much. I really have appreciated what you have given us. I had seeded this for 1 month. Most of the time I seed for 1 week, as to make room for newer stuff I have downloaded.


I just wanted to give special thanks to you and to let you know that you're very much appreciated.


By chance does Michel Thomas have anything on Hindi? If so that would be an awesome next step for me.

Right now I'm learning Chinese and I have got to tell you this system, ROCKS

Thanks my friend
Tim
I'm also stuck in the zip/cpgz loop. How do I open this?

I'm using a macbook pro.

Thanks
Ok, the solution for opening the files and ending the zip/cpgz loop was downloading stuffit expander! It works now.
Obvsiously this is this and the v1 upload are truely truely great uploads but remember that Japanese Advanced was released in Jan 09 and its not in the update?


Also MANDARIN VOCAB is being released July 31 09 which is some 30 days away.

To the orginal uploader are you we going to donate some money towards these updates, I am looking forward to the Mandarin Vocab builder.


Any one got any thing to say about these cruciial mandarin , jap updates?

Wow this has got to be the best language upload ever! Thanks for sharing Joe your a legend.
Thank you so so so much. this is a spectacular upload. I just started using the Italian torrent (going to Rome in Sept) and it is really good! Michel Thomas teaches you how to speak the language! I like this much better than Rosetta Stone!

Joe, I don't know you but I would buy you a beer!!! Once again thanks for a great job! You made a lot of people happy and educated!
I went to my local library for japanese language learning resources and they had absolutely nothing. It made me wanna burn that motherfucker down. Then, when I got home I searched the pirate bay and found rosetta stone and what you have so generously posted and life was good again. Thanks joekane567!
Kick ass, my man. Thank you so much. I just got this from you, have played around with it a bit and no problems to speak of. Very cool, and thanks again.
mr joekane567, you are a true gentleman. michel thomas is a fucking legend - he's taken the pain away from learning a language. and knowing languages helps getting decent paid jobs and hot girls. it's a win win situation.

i look forward to the next update (i need dutch advanced).

again, many thanks.
Hi, Could someone please seed just the German transcripts (or email them to andyplusone@hotmail.com). Please, you would be doing me a huge favour, I only have 5GB per month of downloads so this torrent is too big for me.
Thanks in advance,
Andy
Wow this is indeed great! Joekane thanks:) This helped me alot!
Thanks, JoeKane.

Michel Thomas Advanced Portuguese is now available at Demonoid.
Absolutely brilliant. It was well worth the time to download. Michel Thomas is a legend and so is Joe Kane. If I can learn a language with Michel Thomas anyone can. Are there any plans for V3?
First thank you for putting this up. It will be phenomenal.
But I have downloaded stuffit expander but I still cant unzip the files. Have people gotten this to work on macs???? If so PLEASE share how you did it.
What about greek?? Pleeeeeese, i need it. I hope there will be an update with greek soon
I already have the french foundation disc set and just discovered this torrent.... AMAZING! thanks!
wow, thanks!! updates are always apreciated. :)
Dondic, if you could be interested, i have Greek Introductory to offer, but i'm still in search of Greek Foundation, no luck so far. :/
BIG PROBLEM WITH THIS TORRENT, IT IS MISSING THE MANDRIN VOCAB.


joekane567 its time to scub this torrent and create V3. greek is ready as well..

DOES ANY ONE HAVE A LINK TO THE CHINESE VOCAB?


This much-anticipated Vocabulary Course carries forward the Michel Thomas teaching tradition and faithfully follows his unique approach to foreign language learning.


The essential format is the same all-audio, building-block approach. The teacher and native-speaker assistant instruct two students in the recording studio in real time and the student at home becomes the third member of the class.


Learning vocabulary is notoriously difficult if attempted in the traditional way ? with long lists and hours of memorisation. However, with the Michel Thomas Method, new words and phrases are presented in such a way that they cannot be forgotten. They are interwoven with what has gone before so they are imprinted in your knowledge bank for ever.







The vocabulary in the courses is carefully chosen from a relatively small number of ?power words? which open up an amazing range of expression and comprehension.







Building and expanding on the language structures taught in the Foundation and Advanced Courses, these new Vocabulary Courses give you all you need to enjoy travelling in the Mandarin Chinese-speaking world, be it for business or pleasure
Does anyone have a link to Polish Advanced course? I can't find it anywhere on the web. Thanks.
Can someone please upload the Advanced Portuguese course?
Anyone know where I can find Michel Thomas' Greek foundation ?
This is one top download! Thanks!! Will seed when I am done!
Version 3 of this torrent is now available

http://thepiratebay.ee/torrent/6008651/Michel_Thomas_Complete_V3