Be a German, or an Italian. There would be no harm in even getting students to dress the part, to enter the role with their gestures, and above all to abandon their natural shyness at moving their lips, tongues, and faces in unaccustomed, but necessary, ways to speak like a native. The children can, moreover, have great fun with this practice. I ve mentioned the melody of a language. Rhythm, too, is important.
Every language has certain rhythms that are peculiar to itself.
Melody and rhythm are intrinsic to music, which is another mode of communication entirely from the spoken word. With out them, much meaning would never be conveyed. And without them, I dare say, no one would ever learn a language perfectly, or even very well. The purely mental approach to learning is shown at its greatest disadvantage, perhaps, in the study of languages. But I d learned French by speaking it.