Author Description

Visual English is a new way to learn basic English patterns. When we understand something in English, we often say "I see what you mean." By making sentences like a computer flow chart, we can indeed "see what they mean." Visual English uses only the most common 350 words in English so that the readers have a comfortable territory to see how these words are put together, so that later they can substitute words within these visual patterns.Try it for yourself: Every language translates its most-used 350 words to the same meanings, the Mandatory Human Concepts like "walk" and "cold" and "mother." The way that these are shown in their simple set of functions directs this Visual English learning experience.But far more than the 350 basic words which show that Mandatory Human Concepts are the same, every language also has very similar basic functions. Thus this book becomes a metagrammar which may be applicable to all other human languages, and may indeed form a useful framework for non-statistical machine translation as well. So it is that beginners in English, or beginning theorist, we all make our start here...Visual English is ideal for the friend or family member helping the absolute beginner to know what English is about. Also, these pages can be used in classrooms with proper credit, or as additional teaching materials. For some "visual learners" this could be a key part of their learning.This book is designed as a stand alone beginner's English course or an auxiliary to other instruction, with friends or with teachers. It is also designed to be projectable for a class, and usable in black and white handouts because of shape identification.