THE QUINTESSENCE OF LEARNING A LANGUAGE

                                                            REVIEW AND DO NEW!

You select a text.

Any text will do, but the text you select will give you only the vocabulary of that text.

You play it, you repeat it, you remember it.

If you can’t do this the first time around, you do it the second.

If you can’t do this the second time around, you do it the third.

If you can’t do this the third time around, you do it the fourth,

          Until you  can.       

Words for vocabulary; Phrases for concepts; Sentences for complete thoughts.

Your primary goal is to develop an understanding of the spoken language and your short term recall of what you hear.   Repetition out loud is your speaking practice.   Ability to speak is related to what you can retain in your short term recall. 

To increase your vocabulary, comprehension and overall performance you add on a second text, and a third , and a fourth and so on.    You can continue this process up to the highest, most advanced levels of language which include works of literature and special subjects  The student needs only the necessary material with which to work.  Because of what computer technology now makes possible, it is not necessary to go to the country for immersion in the language.  A computer software program can give you a tutor who is on call 24/7.

The language software program should contain:

1. The story or text in the target language.
2. The translation of the text in one’s native language.
3. A reading of the target language text by a native speaker.
4. The facility to repeat the text, the sentences and the phrases at will and as often as desired..
5. A system of color coding* that shows how the phrase of one language equates to a phrase in the other language.

*The great poet and philosopher, Wolfgang Johann von Goethe, describes how he learned foreign languages by following his natural inclination to language learning.

"Thus I had learned Latin, just like German, French, English, only through practice, without rule and without system.  Anyone who knows what the state of school instruction was at that time will not find it strange that I neglected the grammar as well as the rhetoric;  everything seemed to come naturally to me.  I retained the words, their formations and transformations in my ear and in my mind, and I employed the language with ease for writing and talking"

Goethe

                                            * "Aus meinem leben II, vi. Goethes werke, Cotta'sche bibl.d.welt-literature, 20. 218 

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