Sublime

In Appendix 5, I give you a list of 625 simple, common words. These words are easy to visualize, and so you can learn them with pictures instead of translations.

memorization software on my smartphone to get the French into my head, and I made sure that none of my flash cards had a word of English on them. I began making flash cards for the pronunciation rules, added a bunch of pictures for the nouns and some verbs, learned the verb conjugations, and then built up to simple French definitions of more abstra

Reading in a foreign language often evokes some ugly associations: hours spent trudging through some excruciatingly long masterpiece of literature, painstakingly looking up every other word in a dictionary.