Your method of learning spoken languages is pretty much the same one that James Murray [1], the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary [2], used to learn new l

Your method of learning spoken languages is pretty much the same one that James Murray [1], the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary [2], used to learn new languages, which he did many times. He used translations of the bible. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_(lexicographer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_(lexicographer) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary