Michel Thomas Audiobooks

Michel Thomas (1914 to 2005), born Moniek Kroskof, lived a life that would strain credulity in fiction: a polyglot linguist who served in the Maquis of the French Resistance, survived imprisonment in several Nazi concentration camps and worked with the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps during the Second World War. His decorations were a long time coming – the United States Army awarded him the Silver Star in 2004, the year before his death.

After the war he emigrated to the United States, where he built his second legacy: the language-teaching system known as the Michel Thomas method, which still carries his name across a whole shelf of courses and long outlived the man himself.

Language learning is one of audio’s quiet success stories, and the Michel Thomas method courses in our catalogue show the range on offer: Foundation Swedish, Intermediate Greek, Language Builder Italian, Insider’s German, and both Foundation Modern Standard Arabic and Foundation Egyptian Arabic. These are full structured courses rather than phrase books – listening designed to build a language in the ear rather than on the page. For UK listeners eyeing a holiday, a move or a long-postponed ambition, they are among the most genuinely useful hours on this site.