Patent ID: 7052278

Claim:
Apparatus for teaching a language, comprising: a machine configured to display graphical images and having an audio output device for playing an audio segment associated with a graphical image, the machine further configured to teach a language by the following presentation sequence, all of which is exclusively presented in the language; (A) an initial presentation in which a set of vocabulary items, each of which comprises at least one word is successively presented by successively displaying a graphical image of each vocabulary item and accompanying each graphical image of a vocabulary item with an audio segment comprising the spoken form of the vocabulary item, the audio segments accompanying the graphical images for at least some vocabulary items including phrasal structures that normally accompany those vocabulary items, respectively; and (B) a subsequent presentation in which (i) vocabulary items from the first presentation are combined with other words to form a set of phrases or sentences and (ii) the set of phrases or sentences are successively presented by successively displaying a graphical image that correlates to each phrase or sentence and accompanying each graphical image with an audio segment comprising the spoken form of the phrase or sentence.