Sound Effects Can Teach Many Words
After learning "Counting," "Basic" and "Time" words, later lessons can introduce many other words by relevant sounds. The sounds of people, animals and many things are known worldwide. These sounds are not as repetitive as the "Counting," "Basic" and "Time" lessons, so they are harder, but they cover many more subjects, and can be more fun and interesting.
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Distinctive sounds which introduce new areas include: saws, hammers, drums, fire (and therefore red), thunder, rain, torn paper, car, and airplane. Most people have heard airplanes overhead, even if they have never been near one, and airplane can introduce the words for above, below, sky (and therefore blue and black; geography can teach white, green and yellow).
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Many other sound words are in the "Wordlist," and sample sounds are at FindSounds.com.
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Voices of men, women, girls and boys can teach: laugh, shout, sing, whisper, drink, snore (and therefore sleep), I, we, he, she, they, child, children, male, female. Then these terms can be used with animal sounds to define: cattle, cow, bull, calf, and similar terms for sheep, goats, horses, chickens, ducks. Animals are not so important in themselves, but can be easily learned, and show the irregular nature of the language and some of its oldest sounds. Children's songs can be adapted to practice the animals.
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If some learners do not know words for some sounds in their own language, they can still learn in the target language, such as gong, organ, owl.
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If learners have done lessons in the suggested order, "Geography" would be the next and last lesson.
After learning "Counting," "Basic" and "Time" words, later lessons can introduce many other words by relevant sounds. The sounds of people, animals and many things are known worldwide. These sounds are not as repetitive as the "Counting," "Basic" and "Time" lessons, so they are harder, but they cover many more subjects, and can be more fun and interesting.
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Distinctive sounds which introduce new areas include: saws, hammers, drums, fire (and therefore red), thunder, rain, torn paper, car, and airplane. Most people have heard airplanes overhead, even if they have never been near one, and airplane can introduce the words for above, below, sky (and therefore blue and black; geography can teach white, green and yellow).
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Many other sound words are in the "Wordlist," and sample sounds are at FindSounds.com.
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Voices of men, women, girls and boys can teach: laugh, shout, sing, whisper, drink, snore (and therefore sleep), I, we, he, she, they, child, children, male, female. Then these terms can be used with animal sounds to define: cattle, cow, bull, calf, and similar terms for sheep, goats, horses, chickens, ducks. Animals are not so important in themselves, but can be easily learned, and show the irregular nature of the language and some of its oldest sounds. Children's songs can be adapted to practice the animals.
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If some learners do not know words for some sounds in their own language, they can still learn in the target language, such as gong, organ, owl.
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If learners have done lessons in the suggested order, "Geography" would be the next and last lesson.
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