Michel Thomas has taken the language-learning world by storm. With no books no memorising and no homework Michel teaches the basic grammar of the language painlessly. Using the method he has perfected over the last 50 years he now shares his secret with the world – and ‘makes it simple’ (“Sunday Times”). In only a matter of hours he gives you a comprehensive grasp of the structure of the language enabling you to communicate with confidence. The present future conditional and past tenses are covered and you are taught to think about the ideas that you are trying to communicate rather than to translate words slavishly. He points out the similarities of the vocabulary in English and Spanish and gives you the tools to guess the words you do not know or think you do not know. Join two students as they learn in real time. Become the third member of the class and experience the excitement of learning a language as if by magic! This new edition has one very significant new feature – an additional ‘Review’ CD. All the main teaching points have been lifted from the 8-hour course and are contained on just 2 CDs.

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It knows what you’re thinking. The amazing 20Q will leave you and your friends amazed as it reads your mind. If it reads your mind within 20 questions it wins if not you win! This is “Artificial Intelligence” in its most spherical form. ; ; Who Invented 20Q? ; Robin Burgener the inventor of 20Q is based in Ontario Canada. He began working on 20Q in 1988 with the game running on a 5/14 inch floppy disk. Until 1996 over 2000 games were played in this way creating the basis for the larger online experiment which led to the launch of the pocket version by Radica. ; ; How does the 20Q guess what you are thinking? ; The artificial intelligence behind the game is a neural-network similar to a human brain. A brain or neural-network is built from neurons connected by synaptic connections. A human brain has about one hundred trillion (100 000 000 000 000) synaptic connections. The 20Q.net online version has about ten million (10 000 000) and the pocket version has about two hundred and fifty thousand (250 000). The game uses the neural-network to choose the next question as well as deciding what to guess. ; ; How did it get so good at guessing the right answer? ; The 20Q.net Web site was created in 1996 and currently plays over twelve thousand games per day. The game is still learning through playing and analyzing the results from the games played to enable it to learn new objects and hone its skills on items currently in its vocabulary. Radica’s version of 20Q has taken the most popular items to create an addictive and sometimes uncannily accurate pocket mind-reader!

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