Basic

Teaching Basic Words in a Foreign Language by Sound Alone

The simplest first lesson for audio teaching is "Counting" (at right) where the lesson gives a series of beeps, and says the number for each, in the target language.

After teaching numbers, a lesson can then use these numbers to teach many other useful words: comparisons, conjunctions, plurals, is/are.

Each of the following lines can be said with many other numbers to teach new words thoroughly:

• 1 and 2 are 3
• 2 and 3 are 5
  
• 4 minus 1 is 3
• 4 minus 4 is zero
  
• 4 minus 1 is not 5
• 5 is 1 and 4 or 2 and 3 or 6 minus 1
  
• 2 times 3 is 6
• 4 is more than 2
• 10 is less than 40
• 11 is after 10
• 9 is before 10
• 9 and 11 are about 10
• 25 is between 10 and 30
• 20 is the middle between 10 and 30
• 10 times 100 is 1 thousand
• 5 is half of 10
• 2 is 1 third of 6
• 4 is 2 thirds of 6
• 12 divided by 3 is 4
• Which is more, 5 or 14?
• 2 is 20 percent of 10
• "Most" is 51 percent or more

Other examples are in the "Wordlist." Past and future tenses can be taught in the lesson on "Time."

"Time" would be the easiest next lesson for teaching by radio and MP3, although Time, Geography and Sounds can be done in any order.