I have noticed that Hodder is repackaging the old Michel Thomas courses under new names and at a higher price.
I can hardly wait for his course on Physics. Noble frequently advertises his IQ which he notes is higher than that of Alfred Einstein. I believe that anyone who compares the two courses, by Paul Noble and Michel Thomas, will immediately note the use of the Thomas method by Mr. I can only wonder who might benefit from removal of my review which questioned his claim that he originated this method. Review of his French and Spanish courses, as published via Audible, made me question his claims to origination of his method.įor me ,the method he used, which he claims as his own, bears more than a passing resemblance to that of the greatest language teacher of the last century, Michel Thomas. However, I do question the claims by Paul Noble and Collins, his publisher, that he originated his method of language teaching.
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Everyone is free to create and teach as they wish. I have no dog in this race and do not care what others say or do regarding language teaching. I am also the author of a Michel Thomas method course to instruct English ( and now, French-speakers) in Mandarin Chinese. He worked for fifty some years to create and perfect this approach to teaching languages. Since his work is patented and covered by numerous copyrights, I have no doubt that he would have sought to defend it. He died in 2005 and is no longer alive to defend himself. My last review of Paul Noble’s French course was just removed.įor the record, I was Michel Thomas’s only methodology student. This review is from: Collins French with Paul Noble (Audio CD) At least they won’t be able to take down this copy of the review.īy Harold Goodman (Silver Spring, Maryland 20910) Noble’s French course may take down my latest review, meant to replace the previous one removed, I am printing the latest review here. Since I would not be shocked if the same people who took down my previous negative review of Mr. It will be interesting to see what comes of all of this. This is the second such review to have been removed.
I wonder if it a coincidence that my review of his French course on .uk, which expressed the thoughts of this article has been removed. The Thomas method is patent-protected in addition to numerous copyrights. What is most disturbing is that he goes out of his way to claim that he alone originated his method of instruction. It is my opinion, based on the analysis of materials obtained from, one of the distributors of his Collins courses, that Paul Noble has been quite influenced by the approach of Michel Thomas. Students, as the reviews to his courses on Amazon will show, reported miraculous acquisition of spoken abilities in other languages with minimal work, no memorization, no reading or writing and a number of other things commonly associated with study of languages. In order to accomplish this he dissected languages and put them back together in a way which made learning effortless. His method is based on a unique way to eliminate anxiety which he believed was the major problem for learners in general and language learners in particular. So I do claim to have some familiarity with the teaching approach of Mr. Subsequently, I authored three such courses to teach Mandarin Chinese. Following his death, I was approached by his publisher, Hodder, to continue his legacy with another course using the method I was taught by him.
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Paul Noble, a British-based language teacher, recently contracted with Collins, the UK publisher, to author a series of CD courses to teach various languages according to a method which he claims he developed on his own.Īfter I was alerted to the uncanny resemblance of his approach to that of Michel Thomas, a well-known language teacher who died in 2005, I investigated things on my own.
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