Beforehand, the students have been carefully prepared for the language learning experience.
Through meeting with the staff and satisfied students they develop the expectation that learning will
be easy and pleasant and that they will successfully learn several hundred words of the foreign
language during the class. In a preliminary talk, the teacher introduces them to the material to be
covered, but does not ‘teach’ it. Likewise, the students are instructed not to try to learn it during this
introduction.