TSS42 wrote:With LT Greek most of the lessons feel crammy, rushed, and all in all it's quite a stressful experience.
Quite often Mihalis covers a huge amount of complex grammar in a single session, speaking quite fast.
This seems to be one of MT's principles that other people don't grasp easily, as even the "Michel Thomas Method" courses written after his death fail to deal with it: teach one thing at a time.
It's tempting to say "but these three things are all one thing -- one rule" but that's not what Thomas did.
While I admire the fact that it's all free and he runs off donations, he also claims, and I quote: "The Thinking Method, with all its peculiarities, is a product of the Language Transfer project". No dude, it's not. The method is exactly the same as the Michel Thomas method, and he executed it WAY better.
To be fair to the guy, I'm pretty certain he used to explicitly reference MT as a major influence until Hodder & Stoughton and/or Thomas's estate sent a cease and desist letter on their trademark. They also went after him claiming he was infringing their patent, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped up and defended him against one of the most ridiculous patents ever.