The Name Game is unique to Accelerated Learning Systems. It shows you the surprising number of similarities between English and your new language.

After just an hour’s study of this element of the course, you will be able to deduce the meaning of about 20% of the words in your new language — whether that is French, Spanish, German or Italian.

French and English may look different at first sight. However, a huge number of French and English words have both evolved from Latin. When you know a few fairly simple rules, you can work out the meaning of thousands of French words at a glance.

For example, when you know that mât = mast, and fête was originally a feast, you can see why this accent ^ in French usually indicates that there was once an 's' following the vowel. In turn that enables you to see the meaning of hundreds of words — without having formally learned them! Words like bête = beast, côte =coast, and forêt = forest.

There are about 25 simple rules like this. Together they unlock the meaning of about 20% of French words. The Name Game works equally well for Spanish and Italian. It is a simple, fast basis for building a huge vocabulary.

The Name Game for German is based, not on a common Latin origin, but on the fact that English and Old German were very similar indeed — almost the same language. Once you've uncovered these similarities you can recognise up to 25% of all German vocabulary!

For example if you know that:

the German 'z' is often a 't' in English — so German zu is to in English, and Zinder is tinder
and the vowels 'ei' in German have often changed to an 'o' in English — so Bein is bone and Eich is oak
then you can instantly see why the German zwei is two in English.