We've all gone through the long, drawn-out process of learning our mother tongue from birth, and with the exception of a very few talented individuals to whom it comes naturally, we've all worked hard to learn new languages in later life. I therefore wanted to develop a system of language-learning which capitalises on our mastery of our first language, rather than forcing us to throw away all that hard-earned experience and learn new communication rules all over again.
By careful selection of characters and character-combinations whose sounds and spellings are common and easily-recognized in English, the Immediate Language system offers an intuitive and scientific approach to the phonetic pronunciation of foreign words as if they were written in English. And by focusing on the spoken word, the student linguist can get up and running in their new language extremely rapidly, without having to spend additional valuable time learning to read or write with an unfamiliar alphabet or pronunciation system.
Apart from the obvious element of pronunciation, the other main key to properly learning a new language is understanding what you're actually saying, effectively getting inside the thought processes of a native foreign-language speaker. It's no good just learning stock phrases parrot-fashion. Instead, you need to understand the way that the foreign language works behind the scenes.
With the Immediate Language system's precise use of visual word-for-word matching it becomes possible to see at a glance an exact literal translation of every single foreign word into its English equivalent, so that the underlying sentence structure and language rules become obvious and readily understood.
The syllabus has been carefully designed to focus on frequently-recurring practical topics of conversation that are portable across many different social and travel scenarios, and when you add in the companion soundtracks that are free to download from this website, the Immediate Language system gives the aspiring linguist all the tools they'll need to start participating in meaningful everyday dialogues in a foreign country.
It's a bold claim, I know, but essentially if you can read and pronounce English, you can use the Immediate Language system to start talking and understanding your chosen foreign language almost instantly, without needing to learn any grammar or refer to a dictionary.
I wish you happy and successful learning!
DB