10. Foreign Languages

The study of foreign languages can be made a great deal easier by following the advice of Socrates, who said, "Never use a word without seeing in nature that for which the word stands." A mental picture of the word based upon real live things, with the use of association as a crutch can be of tre­mendous assistance to the language student

In French, for instance,
bleu means blue
couleur means color
jaune means yellow (as in jaundice)
rouge means red
père means father
maison means house.

In Latin      aqua means water (from which comes the word aquatic)

cogitare means to think (or to cogitate)

pater means father
arbor means tree
jemina means woman
frater means brother. In Spanish jaula is jail or cage
frio means frigid or cold
alto means high
diablo means devil
toro means bull

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