Patent Document ID: 8408913
Application ID: 10596991

Base Claim:
1. A system for facilitating language learning wherein said system is used upon samples of a target language, wherein each of said samples is called in this invention ORIGINAL EXTRACT, said target language is a foreign language or is the native language of the learner, wherein said system comprises: a) a display apparatus, b) a memory containing information related to said original extracts, c) control logic means to show one or more BLIND EXTRACTS for at least one of said original extracts, wherein a blind extract is a graphical entity whose fragments have certain correspondence with fragments of an original extract, said original extract being associated to said blind extract, a blind extract is made up of one or more fragments, the fragments of a blind extract are created by replacing the sounds of said fragments of said original extract by graphical objects that are different from the letters associated to said sounds in said target language, d) means to prevent the user from watching text that represents said language sample while the user is watching said blind extract, e) control logic means to choose at least a fragment of a blind extract wherein said fragment is associated to a fragment of an original extract, f) means to generate information about said fragment of an original extract which is associated to said fragment of a blind extract, and wherein at least two of the linguistic entities which are included in said sample of target language and which have different pronunciation from each other are represented by graphical objects which display the same information, wherein a linguistic entity is an entity of any of the following plurality of types: sentences, phrases, words, syllables, or phonemes, and wherein said system is used in isolation or as a complement to other language orientated system, for facilitating foreign language learning or for correcting a problem in the utilization of the native language.

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Claim 11:
11. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said means to prevent the user from watching said text is one or more of the following plurality of means: a) means to instruct the user not to look at said text, in case said text is being shown b) means to place said text at a distance from said blind extract, said distance being higher than 20% of the total horizontal span covered by said blind extracts c) means to present said text with a color that is different from the color of said blind extract d) means to present said text with a font type that is different from the font type of said blind extract e) means to present said text with a font size that is sufficiently small to make it difficult to read to the regular person.