The responses to the following questions will enable you to understand of what the ULAT consists as well as the rationale behind its approach and how to use the program. However, if you want to proceed rapidly to the lessons, and are not concerned with the answers to all the following questions, you only need to read the answers to those questions written in yellow.

1. What is the ULAT?

2. Is it difficult to learn a foreign language?

3. How do people learn to speak a language?

4. What traditional methods are detrimental to learning a foreign language?

5. Why can it be said that the ULAT teaches languages in a "natural" manner?

6. What does the ULAT expect of the learner?

7. If the ULAT doesn't use my native language in its instructions, how will I know what activity to do next?

8. Why must I use the ULAT gestures?

9. What must my computer be able to do for the ULAT lessons to be functional?

10. What is the cost of ULAT instruction?