---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marlene <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Teaching ABC by Visual Mnemonis That's my husband's method. Here's how he remembered the word "eruption" - e=ee in Hebrew an island. So you have the visual of a volcanic eruption on an island. rup=sounds like Danny Ropp, the weather forecaster and "tion" sounds like tooth in Hebrew. Laurin wrote: > Kol hakavod for doing the research into the > inspiration for our method of teaching the > ABC. Yes, it was a study involving the teaching > of the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet to English > speaking students. Details follow. ** To see the complete message, go to - http://www.freelists.org/post/etni/Teaching-ABC-by-Visual-Mnemonis