Patent ID: 8529264
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A method facilitating language learning, comprising the steps of: offering a selection of instruction levels including: offering lesson and vocabulary reviews; providing user selections selectable at any time during or concluding an instruction, the user selections including a “return to lesson” selection, an “additional information” selection, an occurrence “exercise” selection, a “replay lesson” selection, and a “replay occurrence” selection; recording a first stream of video clips on a non-transitory multimedia storage medium; recording a first audio signal on the non-transitory multimedia storage medium, the first audio signal being synchronized with the first stream of video clips, the first audio signal including a target language; recording a first symbolic marker in a subtitle track associated with the a first stream of video clips, wherein said first symbolic marker symbolizes upcoming complex word usage, grammar patterns, idiomatic expressions, and colloquialisms in said first stream recording a second stream of video clips on the non-transitory multimedia storage medium; recording a second audio signal on the non-transitory multimedia storage medium, the second audio signal being synchronized with the second stream of video clips, the second audio signal being of an instructional nature regarding the target language, further comprising the step of embedding a second symbolic marker in a subtitle track of said second stream, said second symbolic marker being linked to an instructional track providing more in-depth instruction regarding information in said first and second streams; linking the first symbolic marker to the a second stream of video clips; and playing the non-transitory storage medium on a multimedia player, whereby user selection of the first symbolic marker pauses the first stream of video clips and plays the second stream of video clips, the first stream of video clips, at the option of the user, resuming upon termination of the second stream of video clips.