Abstract: An audio-visual method of learning a foreign language, which can be practiced using a video projection screen with concomitant audio, or a television includes the steps of: showing the program (in a foreign language) in its original form; showing either a sequence of frozen scenes or a sequence of short program segments, each frozen scene or segment including a single statement by one of the program participants, along with a transcription and a translation of the statement; reshowing the program in its original form; reshowing the sequence of frozen scenes or short program segments, along with only a transcription of the associated statement; and reshowing the program in its original form. Statements by program participants may be shown as subtitles or as dialog balloons such as those used in comic books. Short program segments may end with a frozen frame, which includes the translation and/or transcription.