Patent ID: 7155382

Claim:
A system for teaching a second language to a person fluent in a first language, comprising: a touchable printed entity including with printed pages having sets of sentences, each set comprising a first sentence printed in the first language in close proximity to the same sentence printed in the second language, each set of two sentences annotated by an identifier, the identifier being a number, letter or symbol unique to each set of sentences; a digital memory media having recorded thereon separately-addressed digital audio files associated one-to-one with individual ones of the sets of sentences, each audio file being a verbal rendition of the sentence in the second language in the associated set of two sentences; an audio player separate from the touchable printed entity and coupled to the digital memory media, the audio player having a display enabled to display the identifiers, a scrolling input for scrolling through and displaying identifiers one at a time, and a play input for playing an audio file associated with the displayed identifier; wherein the digital audio files are recorded on the memory media associated with the identifier used to annotate the associated set of sentences, such that audio files may be selected to play from the media by selecting the identifier, providing thereby for a user to see the two printed sentences in the first and the second language in close proximity, and to quickly select and play the audio file for the sentence in the second language.