When you were a child, you didn't know what a trce was at first.Somebody had to tell you. Probably your parents took you outside, pointedto a tree and said, Tree! " You had to learn to associate the sound of the wordtree with the big green leafy thing you saw in front of you.
That's what you must learn to do again when you are learning a foreignlanguage. You need to learn to associate sounds with objects, and to think ina new way. Only this time, since you are grown up, you will be able tounderstand what needs to be done much faster, You'll know why somebody