Michel Thomas
Michel Thomas was a polyglot linguist and decorated war veteran. He survived imprisonment in several 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.
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- Łódź
- Awards
- 🏆 Silver Star
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Trending topics shown first"What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget."
"If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary."
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1914
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Birth2005
Died
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