Thomas died in 2005, aged 90, but his audio lessons are available, along with CDs by other instructors teaching languages such as Mandarin and Russian using his methods.
托马斯2005年去世,享年90岁,但他的音频课程仍可以买到,此外还有其他教师使用他的方法教授汉语、俄语等语言的光盘。
Thomas led an extraordinary life. Born Moniek Kroskof to a Jewish textile manufacturing family in Lodz, Poland, he studied in Germany and, when the Nazis tightened their grip, escaped to France. He fought with the resistance, escaped near death several times and took several noms de guerre, ending with Michel Thomas.
托马斯的一生非同寻常。他原名莫涅克·克罗斯科夫(Moniek Kroskof),出生于波兰罗兹一个从事纺织制造业的犹太家庭,后来在德国学习。当纳粹加强控制时,他逃往法国。他与法国抵抗运动并肩作战,几度与死神擦肩而过,多次改名换姓,最后化名米歇尔·托马斯。
As the allies advanced across France, he linked up with American forces, using his perfect German to act as an interrogator, and then washed up, stateless, in the US, where he set up his language-teaching business.
随着盟军在法国所向披靡,他与美军取得联系,利用自己娴熟的德语审讯战俘。之后,他以无国籍人士的身份来到美国,发展起自己的语言教学业务。
The publication in 1999 of Michel Thomas: The Test of Courage, an admiring biography by Christopher Robbins, led one writer to question Thomas’s wartime account. It is impossible for an outsider to judge the doubts, which Robbins rejected in detail in an afterword to his paperback edition, and which the US army answered by decorating Thomas for bravery.
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