This is my favorite Spanish learning system of all time. Michel Thomas was a gifted linguist who mastered ten languages in his life-time and became famous for teaching much of Hollywood's 'A' list how to speak a foreign language. Film stars such as Mel Gibson, Woody Allen, Emma Thompson and Barbara Streisand paid up to $40,000 each for face-to-face lessons. Makes the $99 box set price a bit easier to swallow.