Learn Language by Images

Polly Glott
3 min readFeb 11, 2023

“Siri, show me pictures of…”

When learning vocabulary in a destination language, it’s not that much different from how a child learns how the world works. There are “rules” to figure out, and each new learning item is being categorized in the brain to fit those rules.

When a child is first learning what a dog is, one of the first observations is that a dog has four legs. Does that mean every animal with four legs is a dog? Or maybe every dog the child sees happens to be the colour brown. Does that mean all brown animals are dogs? It doesn’t take that long for a…

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