Michel Thomas Quotes

Michel Thomas was a polyglot linguist, and decorated war veteran. He survived imprisonment in several different Nazi concentration camps after serving in the Maquis of the French Resistance and worked with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II. After the war, Thomas emigrated to the United States, where he developed a language-teaching system known as the "Michel Thomas method". In 2004 he was awarded the Silver Star by the U.S. Army. Wikipedia

✵ 3. February 1914 – 8. January 2005

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Famous Michel Thomas Quotes

“If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.”

Speak German with Michel Thomas, Disc 5

“If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.”

Speak German with Michel Thomas, Disc 3

“What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget.”

Speak French with Michel Thomas, Disc 1

“All stress inhibits true and effective learning.”

Speak French with Michel Thomas, Disc 1

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