I like the idea of a script for practising a foreign language. You can buy foreign language educational books with 100s of example sentences; and I want to build something similar: 100s of sentences or short paragraphs which are practice for learning a foreign language. If each sentence uses a word from, for example, the Woman 1000 system or the picture dictionary article then, by knowing one of those systems, I would have a prompt to remind me the scripted sentences.
I like the idea that each if the cartoon women from the Women 1000 system could have a quote associated with each of them; and I have to imagine each person saying their quote. The quote needs to start with the dictionary word that the cartoon person represents but the rest of the sentence is a number acrostic where three words are acrostics for the three digit number that the cartoon woman represents.
For example:
Woman 009 means "Man" but the "The man is a big boat fisherman." is the 009 acrostic.
And, if I was learning another language, I could test myself that I could say that sentence in the foreign language: a learning material that I can not only revisit many times but also carry around in my head for immediate access if I am killing time somewhere and need something to do.
I like the idea that the face helps me to think of the three digit number now; and then I can deduce the outfit colour and outfit of the person from the three digit number. And I like the idea that I would be practising the association of the cartoon face with a matching dictionary word: 'man'.
I like language courses which make you practise very common or fundamental sentence structures. So I would like there to be sentences which revise grammar for asking the time, etc.
In theory, I could visit my scripted sentences, in sequence, and try to say the sentence in a foreign language which I wish to practise. That would improve my foreign language skills
An example of a set piece script for learning is a "Chinese 1000 character story" that is ancient and was used to make sure that a student was practising a core of Chinese characters.
I am developing a language learning method which uses example sentences: Lingering Exercise Method. The idea is that, after you study a lesson and its short story, the next lesson reuses a huge amount of vocabulary from lesson 1; and so on: the aim is not to learn a lot of vocabulary fast in a wide variety of life situations: instead, the aim is to really consolidate memory of what has been taught already.
It really contrasts with the Scripted Sentences idea. Scripted Sentences would probably be songs or poems deliberately using a wide vocabulary and a wide use of grammar rules. So if you are a little rusty with a foreign language then you could read or listen to the material and refresh a huge amount of the language.
And you could be out walking and a song could come to mind and if you mentally listen to it then you gain practice at the language.
In contrast, the Lingering Exercise Method would deliberately limit the vocabulary being studied and deliberately cause you to encounter the same vocabulary but in fresh sentences. That is really helpful, I think, because you can feel like you know a word really well because you re-read a text often but then you can fail to interpret its context if you encounter it in a different piece of text. Varierty of encountering a word is, I think, a crucial part of gaining a foreign language.
I have played with AI for generating text. In May 2025, I would say that it needs human help to design a good story; but I can imagine quickly producing a musical or opera that uses 3000 words and which has rhymes in the lyrics. Or maybe no AI is better because I do find that it says it has done a task but it has only 99% done a task. Maybe I could write a musical for practising French; and it would rhyme in French; then the same musical could be translated into German - not to rhyme but to be a constrained 3000 word vocabulary exercise. SOmetimes, it is good to have a familiar text to guide language learning but it is also good to encounter a known word in a new story or article.