你要用眼睛看出汉语的字母的意思。 . . would really mess things up. It may take me a little longer in the beginning, to associate the feeling instead of the English word, but in the long run it speeds things up. It helps my comprehension when they speak to me in class. The same thing happened to me with Spanish in Bolivia.’ ‘This really works for you.’ ‘Oh, yes, and it works for dialogs, too. I try to read the sentence in Turkish, and get the words down cold, so that I feel the meaning coming out of them. And then I go on and feel what the whole dialog is. It’s like I put together a series of mental pictures.’ ‘And then when you say the dialog, you just talk about the pictures.’ ‘Exactly! And if I miss a word here or there, then I know what to focus on the next time.’ ‘And gradually you get it verbatim.’ ‘That’s right.’ ‘And you do this primarily by forming and talking about mental pictures.’ ‘Yes, but I don’t want to overemphasize the visual aspect. It’s not so much a mental picture as a mental feeling.’ ‘More of a visceral than a visual thing,’ I suggested. ‘Yeah, almost,’ Bob replied. ...