This is very inspiring. As one who is struggling with elementary Mandarin, I welcome the ideas you have developed and am eager to try them. This could help revolutionize the teaching of Mandarin in the U.S. at a time when many people are extremely interested in learning this language. I am highly educated in other ways, but I seriously need help with Mandarin. Thank you for your work and creative ideas. I can’t wait to try them out.
Rebecca L. Oxford, Ph.D.
January 31, 2008 7:55 PM Dear Rebecca,
Thanks for your support.
I have been so excited with the feedback I have been getting from our students. Truly, I, too, find it amazing. I know of no other method of teaching spoken Chinese that produces such immediate, long-lasting and satisfactory results.
I am now working on improving the course as well as to create other courses using a similar teaching approach.
Harold Goodman, the author of the Michel Thomas Spoken Mandarin Chinese courses (3 parts), is the only person to whom Michel Thomas taught his approach to teaching and methodology of course creation. As part of this training, Michel Thomas taught him two languages, one on one. In addition, over their 10 years together, Dr. Goodman recorded over 100 hours of discussions about Michel Thomas’ life and approach to teaching, the only time this was done. He is currently working on a Michel Thomas course for Modern spoken Hebrew. For updates about the Hebrew course, please click here.
Dr. Goodman also is the only person who ever learned Boris Shekhtman’s unique method of teaching foreign languages. Over many years Shekhtman taught Russian to most of the Moscow-based staff of The New York Times, CNN, and other major media outlets. They spent three years intensively together working on this project. The Shekhtman approach catapults beginner and intermediate speakers into very high levels of communication in record time.
Dear Harold,
This is very inspiring. As one who is struggling with elementary Mandarin, I welcome the ideas you have developed and am eager to try them. This could help revolutionize the teaching of Mandarin in the U.S. at a time when many people are extremely interested in learning this language. I am highly educated in other ways, but I seriously need help with Mandarin. Thank you for your work and creative ideas. I can’t wait to try them out.
Rebecca L. Oxford, Ph.D.
January 31, 2008 7:55 PM
Dear Rebecca,
Thanks for your support.
I have been so excited with the feedback I have been getting from our students. Truly, I, too, find it amazing. I know of no other method of teaching spoken Chinese that produces such immediate, long-lasting and satisfactory results.
I am now working on improving the course as well as to create other courses using a similar teaching approach.
Please keep in touch.
Harold