Michel Thomas and his unusual method have found an enormous response in the press. Numerous American and foreign newspapers and magazines, including USA Today, The International Herald Tribune, Forbes, Business Life, Conde' Nast Traveler, The New York Post, People Magazine, Gannet Westchester Newspapers and others, have sent their journalists to find out about this phenomenal teaching success. Here are some of their reviews and comments.

Financial Times:
LANGUAGE BARRIER: Michel, the man who'd like to teach the world to talk
By John-Paul Flintoff
Mar 27, 2004

If we put our minds to it, we could all be multilingual. Or so says Michel Thomas, a Polish-born refugee, survivor of labor camps in Vichy France and agent of US counterintelligence who founded a "Polyglot Institute" in Beverly Hills in 1947. He now runs Michel Thomas Language Centers in New York and California, and his tapes and CDs teaching French, German, Italian and Spanish are the best-selling language courses in the UK. After just eight hours of instruction, Thomas claims, beginners will have practical and functional use of whichever language they choose.
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Sunday Telegraph, London:
Brush up your bad language (January 7, 2003)
Britons abroad usually end up shouting at the locals in English. But Clare Wrathrall has found a way to sound like a native...

This is the season of resolutions, and along with quitting smoking, learning a language is surely up there as one of the most popular. We may be a nation of hopeless linguists, with neither the opportunity nor the inclination to learn languages -- since 1992, the number taking French A-level has declined by a third -- but when traveling, attempting to communicate in the local language, however clumsily, can transform your experience.
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Manhattan, Inc.:
"He taught (students) to speak, read and write a foreign language in as little as ten days - without memorization, drills, or homework. Thomas himself carefully selects and trains the teaching staff, matches the instructors to students, and tailors the material to one's professional and personal needs. His teaching methods, though unorthodox, are acknowledged by all to be highly effective. There are even those who call him a genius...The course...involves the use of tapes. It took Thomas more than twenty-five years to develop and refine these tapes, and ...everyone goes away swearing by them."

The New York Post:
"Thomas' technique is no homework, no memorization, but complete immersion...His program is so successful the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry has officially endorsed it, and businesses are among his most avid clients."

Wesley Posvar, Former President of the University of Pittsburgh, (as quoted in Germany's Manager Magazine):
"The results of a ten-day course correspond more or less to four semesters with two-hour periods twice a week. The pupils are stimulated to think and combine in a type of intellectual acrobatics. The student learns to his astonishment the unexpected ability to learn quickly. The course is so fascinating that one is disappointed every time lunch break begins."

Diversion:
"The Rolls Royce of language schools...The roster of graduates reads like the Who's Who of Hollywood or a survey of the Fortune 500. A unique approach to foreign languages...His learning system breaks the barrier by eliminating the frustration, fatigue, and boredom. This revolutionary learning method has received accolades from the academic community. Michel Thomas has guaranteed the impossible and delivered."

From Daily News Business (comparing the leading language schools):
"Thomas' fee is the same as the others, but that's where the similarities end. He promises - and backs it up with a guarantee - that with no memorization, no drills, no learning by rote, and no homework, you'll be able to speak, read, and write French, Spanish and German in 10 days. In fact, after five days, you will be reading newspapers and magazines in your chosen language."

The Daily News
"He provides what he calls, 'three master keys' - logical ways of thinking, with the help of visual and verbal cues - to unlock the tenses of the languages. Everything is presented in easily digestible steps."

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