| Photo books can be very helpful in language learning, | | | | language learning sessions. As always, we |
| especially as a secondary material during the first six | | | | recommend either live classes (with a group |
| weeks of lessons. If you set them up right, they can | | | | instructor or a private tutor) or a comprehensive |
| make for hours upon hours of useful practice in both | | | | language software as your main method of learning, |
| vocabulary retention and sentence construction. Most | | | | with the photo book as a resource for additional |
| likely, you will want to use them as you build up a | | | | practice sessions. Allot regular time for the photo |
| recognition vocabulary of around 1,000 words, all | | | | book sessions, so that you get consistent practice |
| while learning enough grammatical structure to | | | | from them. We recommend 15 minutes a day. |
| construct basic communicative sentences. | | | | When scheduling your photo book sessions, work |
| When collecting photos for your collection, aim for | | | | first towards identifying main characters in the |
| images with at least one person in them as the main | | | | photos, listing down simple sentences such as "This is |
| character. Rather than merely standing, they should | | | | a man" and "These are children" in the language you |
| be doing something involving other people or objects | | | | are studying. After that, move towards identifying |
| within the shot. This will allow you to not only identify | | | | objects they're interacting with, such as "This is a |
| characters and items, but construct complete | | | | dog" and "This is a guitar." Once you get those |
| sentences with nouns and verbs for each | | | | down, you can move on to more complex |
| photograph. | | | | constructions, such from using simple transitive verbs |
| Like all secondary practice materials, photo books are | | | | to active verbs to full-on compound sentences. |
| best employed while also participating in regular | | | | |