Valuable experience of learning the language

As I said, during the first few weeks of learning the language, you were able to understand speech provided it was well supported by pictures, objects or actions. For example, if you were learning English, and I simply have said, "The hump in the middle of my face is my nose", with my hands folded in my lap, and a blank expression on my face, you would not have had an idea of what I said. But if I pointed to my nose and said: "this is my nose," and then pointed to my mouth and said: "This is my mouth," then in my ear and said: "This is my ear," and then back to my nose and said: "This is my nose," there would have been a good chance that you understand the meaning: It's my nose ", etc. This is because the meaning what you would have heard it said by you saw. Similarly that is that you come quickly to be able to understand simple descriptions of pictures. That's life in stage I. Even though you can find out many ways to learn one new language, you should select one to help you learn it effectively. Rosetta Stone Chinese is supposed to be one of the best ways in Chinese learning.

Even if you are now beyond Phase I, you will still find that, other things being equal, it is easier to understand the description of a person from an image if you can not see the image if you can not. This would be true even if you listen to your mother tongue, but it is much more the case when listening to a language you are still learning.

If your mother tongue, even when you can not see an image that is described, you can recogize it. Be clear that the speaker uses words, and understand spoken sentences in general. In the case of your new language, see the image that is described can mean the difference between being able to hear the words is clear and be unable to catch the words at all. So the photos are always helpful for you in making input more comprehensible, or more easily understood. You may want to refer to Wright for numerous suggestions on ways non-beginners can use photographs as an aid to language learning. However, at this point in your learning the language, the advantage of seeing what you hear is not as dramatic as it was during your first few weeks, I will not say much more about using images during Phase II.