| What can be learned in a foreign language purely by sound, over the radio or on MP3, from native speakers? | ||||||||||
| The goal is for beginners to understand and repeat 300-400 words as native speakers say them, slowly and clearly. | ||||||||||
| With this solid pronunciation, beginners can advance to other classes, listen to radio and movies (with subtitles), and talk with other learners or native speakers. | ||||||||||
| Each column is discussed at Lang1234.com | Try sounds at FindSounds.com | Examples are in English, but could work for any language | ||||||||
| Total Number of Words | Counting | Basic Words Taught by Arithmetic | Time | Sounds & Context: Animals | Sounds & Context: Other | Widely-Known Countries (by Cognates & Context) | Capitals with Distinctly English Sound, or English Language | Other Geography & context | Other Cognates & Context | |
| 403 | 28 | 45 | 44 | 80 | 49 | 40 | 22 | 69 | 26 | |
| Audio to teach counting | ||||||||||
| \ short low beep | 1 | and | program | man | trumpet | Canada | Ottawa | north | kilo | |
| \\ | 2 | are | Monday | woman | gong | Mexico | south | gram | ||
| \\\ | 3 | times | Tuesday | boy | bell | United States | Washington | east | liter | |
| \\\ \ | 4 | is | Wednesday | girl | siren | Argentina | west | meter | ||
| \\\ \\ | 5 | minus | Thursday | baby | guitar | Colombia | middle | kilometer | ||
| \\\ \\\ | 6 | subtract | Friday | male | drum | Venezuela | coast | centimeter | ||
| \\\ \\\ \ | 7 | from | Saturday | female | flute | Brazil | city | hectare | ||
| \\\ \\\ \\ | 8 | divide | Sunday | men | piano | Peru | capital | acre | ||
| \\\ \\\ \\\ | 9 | by | January | women | organ | Chile | of | mile | ||
| ! medium pitch | 10 | squared | February | people | violin | Britain | London | the | Celsius | |
| ! \ | 11 | cubed | March | children | harp | Ireland | Dublin | a | degrees | |
| ! \\ | 12 | multiply | April | child | music | France | Paris | country | Coca Cola | |
| ! \\\ | 13 | divided | May | young | static | Germany | Berlin | America | Nestle | |
| ! \\\ \ | 14 | add | June | old | high | Italy | Rome | Europe | Visa | |
| ! \\\ \\ | 15 | zero | July | born | low | Spain | Madrid | Asia | cold | |
| ! \\\ \\\ | 16 | half | August | I | loud | Portugal | Lisbon | Africa | hot | |
| ! \\\ \\\ \ | 17 | third | September | we | quiet | Switzerland | Antartica | ice | ||
| ! \\\ \\\ \\ | 18 | quarter | October | you | rain | Vatican | Arctic | freezes | ||
| ! \\\ \\\ \\\ | 19 | fifth | November | they | wind | Russia | Moscow | snow | boils | |
| !! | 20 | sixth | December | he | thunder | China | Beijing | Atlantic | steam | |
| !!! | 30 | seventh | months | she | airplane | India | New Delhi | Pacific | president | |
| !!! ! | 40 | eighth | days | sing | fly [plane+bird] | Pakistan | Islamabad | Indian | prime minister | |
| !!! !! | 50 | ninth | years | song | car | Afghanistan | ocean | monarch | ||
| !!! !!! | 60 | tenth | from | whistle | drive | Saudi Arabia | Mediterranean | king | ||
| !!! !!! ! | 70 | thousand | morning | whisper | horn | Iran | sea | queen | ||
| !!! !!! !! | 80 | million | afternoon | hum | in | Iraq | Caribbean | pope | ||
| !!! !!! !!! | 90 | billion | evening | drink | above | Israel | Arabian | |||
| / higher pitch | hundred | trillion | night | scream | below | Indonesia | Djakarta | Red [sea+fire] | ||
| which | sun | squeal | sky | Bangladesh | Dacca | black [night] | ||||
| Audio would count | smaller | moon | laugh | tear | Phillipines | Manila | blue [ocean] | |||
| continuously to 100, | bigger | hours | speak | paper | Thailand | white [snow] | ||||
| for drill, but we do | than | minutes | shout | clang | Japan | Tokyo | green [forest] | |||
| not count them as | or | seconds | sneeze | steel | Korea | yellow [desert] | ||||
| independent words | not | noon | snore | creak | Australia | Canberra | Potomac | |||
| between | midnight | sleep | wood | Nigeria | Abuja | river | ||||
| many | was | nap | rock | South Africa | Pretoria | Nile | ||||
| more | will | cry | glass | Congo | Amazon | |||||
| most | be | walk | fire | Egypt | Cairo | water | ||||
| fewer | spring | run | sizzle | Algeria | Algiers | land | ||||
| percent | summer | dog | hammer | Morocco | wet | |||||
| fraction | autumn | cattle [sound] | saw | dry | ||||||
| after | winter | cow ['female cattle'] | drill | Sahara | ||||||
| before | decade | bull [male cattle] | sand | desert | ||||||
| middle | century | calf [young cattle] | splash | forest | ||||||
| about | sheep | slap | dollar | |||||||
| ewe | echo | euro | ||||||||
| ram | sweep | money | ||||||||
| lamb | explosion | pound | ||||||||
| horse | beep | Catholic | ||||||||
| mare | Protestant | |||||||||
| stallion | Moslem | |||||||||
| foal | Hindu | |||||||||
| goat | Buddhist | |||||||||
| billy goat | Jewish | |||||||||
| nanny goat | religion | |||||||||
| kid | priest | |||||||||
| chicken | minister | |||||||||
| hen | imam | |||||||||
| rooster | monk | |||||||||
| chick | rabbi | |||||||||
| crow | bishop | |||||||||
| songbird | United Nations | |||||||||
| owl | New York | |||||||||
| duck | Himalayan | |||||||||
| drake | mountains | |||||||||
| duckling | Alps | |||||||||
| bird | Andes | |||||||||
| mammal | top | |||||||||
| bee | bottom | |||||||||
| mosquito | ||||||||||
| fly | ||||||||||
| cricket | ||||||||||
| lion | ||||||||||
| elephant | ||||||||||
| egg | ||||||||||
| beef | ||||||||||
| mutton | ||||||||||
| eat | ||||||||||
| chew | ||||||||||
| breath | ||||||||||