Michel Thomas Complete V3

=========================================== = MICHEL THOMAS - THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS = = VERSION 3 - 3rd DECEMBER 2010 = =========================================== By Joe Kane Jr - Seeded on www.thepiratebay.se ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU DON'T NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE TORRENT If you already have version 2 of this torrent, get the "Michel Thomas Complete V3 Update" torrent instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS 1. Dedications 2. Introduction 3. How to use Michel Thomas 4. Complete index of files in the torrent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. DEDICATIONS This torrent is dedicated to the life and work of MICHEL THOMAS (1914-2005), a man who invented an ingenious and original method for teaching languages. Thomas might easily have shared his work with the world. Instead, he chose to keep it to himself for fifty years, revealing the "secret" to just a handful of wealthy celebrities prepared to pay his extortionate fees. Thanks, Michel! The torrent is also dedicated to the team at Hodder Arnold, publishers of courses in eight new languages (most of which are pretty good). They are also compulsive liars, I'm afraid to say. This little exchange on the official MT Facebook page is typical of the misleading advertising the company has been using since the 1990s: Abhishek: I have completed [the] introductory spanish course but when [will] I be able to understand spanish movies...is it be possible after [the advanced course]?? Hodder Education: The Advanced courses will take you to the standard of an English A-Level, so you should be able to follow and understand films after completing this level... Finally, this torrent is dedicated to the original Joe Kane, compiler of the earlier versions of the torrent. Joe passed away a few months ago and, believe it or not, one of his deathbed requests was that his torrents should continue to be seeded. Version 3 of this torrent has been produced to honour this request. Thanks, Joe! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. INTRODUCTION Thank you for downloading this torrent. It contains: - All the Michel Thomas Method recordings now available for native English speakers - 196 CDs of material covering 12 languages - Copies of the booklets which accompany these courses - Transcripts of all the courses published before 2007 - Two new courses, in French and Spanish, from Paul Noble (who uses a method similar to the one used by Michel Thomas) The courses for native French speakers have been moved to a separate torrent. This torrent does not yet contain: - Any of the courses produced for native Spanish speakers - Any of the courses produced for schools - Transcripts for most courses published after 2007 - Scans of the two books about Michel Thomas ('The Test Of Courage', a biography by Christopher Robbins, and 'The Learning Revolution', by Jonathon Solity) If you have any of these, please upload them. Technical information: - For Version 3 of the torrent, all the sound files have been re-ripped from original CDs - New, consistent metadata format which ought to make the sound files easier to use in portable music players (192Kbps bitrate) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. HOW TO USE MICHEL THOMAS Not used Michel Thomas before? It's better to do one language at a time (not all twelve 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 for the language you're learning), then Builder (if it's available). If you're learning French, German, Spanish or Italian, there are Review courses available which summarise material from the Foundation and Advanced courses. The Foundation courses used to be called "Basic" courses. You can also find "Introductory" courses, which are identical to the first 2 CDs of the "Foundation" courses. For full instructions, read one of the course guides in the "Booklets" folder. (The instructions are more or less the same for all courses.) Happy learning! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. COMPLETE INDEX OF FILES IN THE TORRENT OFFICIAL COURSES (FOR NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS) ARABIC (EGYPTIAN) Arabic Foundation Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, 28 Sep 2007, 8 CDs Arabic Advanced Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, 28 Mar 2008, 4 CDs Arabic Vocabulary Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, 24 Apr 2009, 4 CDs CHINESE (MANDARIN) Chinese Foundation Harold Goodman, 28 Sep 2007, 8 CDs Chinese Advanced Harold Goodman, 28 Mar 2008, 4 CDs Chinese Vocabulary Harold Goodman, 31 Jul 2009, 4 CDs DUTCH Dutch Foundation Cobie Adkins-De Jong and Els Van Geyte, 25 Jul 2008, 8 CDs Dutch Advanced Cobie Adkins-De Jong and Els Van Geyte, 27 Feb 2009, 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 GREEK Greek Foundation Hara Garoufalia-Middle and Howard Middle, 29 May 2009, 8 CDs Greek Advanced Hara Garoufalia-Middle and Howard Middle, 25 Dec 2009, 4 CDs 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 JAPANESE Japanese Foundation Helen Gilhooly, 25 Jul 2008, 8 CDs Japanese Advanced Helen Gilhooly, 25 Feb 2009, 4 CDs POLISH Polish Foundation Jolanta Cecula, 26 Sep 2008, 8 CDs Polish Advanced Jolanta Cecula, 25 Dec 2009, 4 CDs PORTUGUESE Portuguese Foundation Virginia Catmur, 25 Jul 2008, 8 CDs Portuguese Advanced Virginia Catmur, 25 Feb 2009, 4 CDs RUSSIAN Russian Foundation Natasha Bershadski, 28 Sep 2007, 8 CDs Russian Advanced Natasha Bershadski, 28 Mar 2008, 4 CDs Russian Vocabulary Natasha Bershadski, 24 April 2009, 4 CDs 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 COLLINS / PAUL NOBLE COURSES (FOR NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS) French with Paul Noble Paul Noble, 16 Sep 2010, 12 CDs (including 2 'review' CDs) Spanish with Paul Noble Paul Noble, 16 Sep 2010, 12 CDs (including 2 'review' CDs) TRANSCRIPTS French Foundation, Advanced and Builder German Foundation, Advanced and Builder Spanish Foundation, Advanced and Builder Italian Foundation, Advanced and Builder BOOKLETS Booklets accompanying all the courses for native English speakers, downloaded from http://www.audible.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------

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soliduschulo763 (2010-12-05)

Seed seed! There is nobody seeding for this torrent. If Someone seeds for me, then I will continue to seed.

sam_smooth (2010-12-06)

def. need some seeders for this awesome torrent!!!

JoeKaneJr (2010-12-06)

The torrent is only two and a half days old, and already people are complaining?
Listen, folks.
This torrent was created on Friday evening. If there's only seeder (that's me), and five hundred of you trying to download it, of course it's going to be slow. Try having some patience.

JOR23 (2010-12-08)

MUY INTERESANTE , SE VE QUE ESTA MUY BUENO , ESPERO QUE SIGAN ALIMENTANDOLO

lang10000 (2010-12-10)

It's too bad these aren't broken up into smaller groups of languages. Seems sort of a waste of resources to download 20 Gig when you only want one language (Polish advanced, in my case)

JoeKaneJr (2010-12-10)

Hi lang10000,
Which programme are you using to download your torrents? Most (or all) of them allow you to download just the files you want. There's simply no need for most people to download the whole 20GB.

lang10000 (2010-12-10)

@JoeKaneJr: Yeah, I figured that out, thanks thouh. Using Transmission, BTW. Still no seeders today :-/ Yesterday I had some decent speed for a while, but now there's no seeder at all, so I'm sitting at 0.0 KiN/s download. I see there are a couple other peers out there that have 90+ percent, but they're not accepting connections.

JoeKaneJr (2010-12-11)

@lang10000: The list you're looking at doesn't contain everyone in the swarm, just those you're connected to at the moment.
The people on 93% must be accepting connections because they're all missing the same 7% of files.

jantrance (2010-12-22)

Thank you so much for uploading!!!
I'll download the whole package even if i only need french. I do this for all others who also want all the other languages!
Happy seeding!!!
Have fun and thanks!

jakesender21 (2011-02-08)

Je t'aime JoeKaneJr!!!Merci beaucoup.
Ana behibak JoeKaneJr!!!Shokran.
I love JoeKaneJr!!!Thank you very much.

jakesender21 (2011-02-12)

You will always be remembered Joe Kane. Your torrents were the first I downloaded when I decided to learn another language. Your generosity
will not be in vain. So seed people! Don't make Joe Kane wake up from his sleep and seed this one for us.

guichtorrent (2011-02-22)

Thanks Joekanejr for this great torrent!
Do you know where can I find these torrents for French native speakers?

hookguy (2011-02-25)

thanks so much for this!

Gamaman (2011-03-12)

So cool, and spot on with the commentary at the top, lol!
H.A. used to run a discussion board for fans of the materials, and when, at the invitation of the moderators, users began putting up better course material than they were coming out with (I'm looking at you Japanese) they shut the site down.
I'll dig through and post what I have from that time.
Think what could have been if Thomas had shared his methods, how different teaching could have been. Maybe he did meet with too much resistance, originally; I may never know.

Thank you for keeping this going. You have done a great service. I'm sorry to hear about Joe Kane 'Sr'. Glad his wishes are being fulfilled.

Robsond76 (2011-05-08)

@JoeKaneJr
I dont comment much around here, a shy pirate i am. But, spetacular torrent, and your efforts are very much appreciated. Cheers to Joe!

BigRed777 (2011-06-11)

In the infobox it says "The courses for native French speakers have been moved to a separate torrent." But i can't find that torrent. Does it really exist?

JoeKaneJr (2011-06-25)

@bigred777 Yes, I forgot to create a separate torrent for the Francophone courses. I've had a little hard drive accident here, so there's no possibility of doing it now; but all of the Francophone courses I had, I got from other torrents. Hopefully they're still available for people to download.
@Gamaman I remember the old MT forums well, but I don't remember the Homebrew courses being any good. Maybe I didn't see the superior ones you've described.
@all Thanks for your comments, hope you've all been studying hard!

ShadowNix (2011-07-15)

Thank you! 8D

azguy (2011-07-17)

Figures. TPB acting up right now - not downloading at all. And I need the vocab and builder courses for German ASAP. Heh.
But kudos for this torrent!

thegoodcat (2011-08-10)

Can Anyone Seed Please
This is an awesome torrent

IWantFreeMedia (2011-12-09)

Listened to German Beginner and its good quality. I have just finished German Advanced although the quality is sub par. I will report back on the builder and vocab when i get there. Thanks a lot though!

cambulix33 (2012-01-21)

The quality of the French, German, Spanish and Italian advanced courses is sub-par because Michel Thomas was a very old man by that point and his voice was fading.
You'll get the same quality if you buy the CDs.

tpmoita (2012-03-17)

Hi there! First of all, thanks to Joe Kane (both of them). You're the man!
Listen, I've noticed some of the materials have some imprecision. Being a Portuguese native speaker, I'd be willing to hand notes on pronunciation and usage.
I'm also naming all the tracks with all the new words a track contains. And in addition, and this is of course a huge enterprise, I intend to start making review materials from the original courses in GarageBand, just like the available ones in Spanish, French, etc.
Anyone interested in any of this?

tpmoita (2012-03-17)

Just one more thing. The review materials would be of all unavailable languages, not just Portuguese (this could take months or more, of course). I'll do it for myself, but if you're interested, I'll start with the most popular ones.
And another bonus: good image quality covers for every course.

Karyobin (2012-10-27)

Awesome work - still. I was downloading your stuff years ago and I still am. Thanks and well done.

cet89 (2013-01-24)

Gret Torrent man! Thnx very much

leonelmail (2013-03-24)

Thank you!!!

wecaz1 (2013-03-30)

Thanks. I hope this is good. I have used French in the past. I hope to make a donation to them in future.

Fer469 (2013-05-10)

Does anyone know where to find the courses for native Spanish speakers?

noblepaul (2013-09-13)

One of the best language learning methods IMHO. Thank you Joe Kane for the nicely organized torrent. You are legend.
It's hard to find the Michel Thomas Hindi or Paul Noble Chinese courses on any of the trackers. Anyone who could upload these would be a torrent god!

skzytooo (2014-03-14)

Thanks! I'm trying Pimsleur German, found out about Michel Thomas and wanted to give it a try!
Very well organized torrent, my compliments!