The secrets of the phenomenal success of the Michel Thomas language courses are revealed in this, the first book ever written on Michel Thomas's unique and revolutionary teaching methodology.

• Michel Thomas's focus on the role of the teacher
  
• The problems that prevent people learning foreign languages 
  
• Michel Thomas's core belief that with the right teaching anyone can learn another language quickly and easily
  
• The Michel Thomas Method, and how this compares to conventional teaching methods 

The author Dr Jonathan Solity is an associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Chartered Educational Psychologist.  He lectures in educational psychology at University College, London.