The present invention relates to a language learning device and method therefor in which a story image stored in a digital data apparatus is used to create a sentence, and one of the words in the sentence is learned in a foreign language; comprising: a first storage unit (102a) for storing the image of a story comprising a plurality of characters; a second storage unit (12a) for storing the names of the characters; a third storage unit (12b) for storing, as speech, the names of the characters stored in the second storage unit; a fourth storage unit (12c) for storing sentences containing the names of the characters; a fifth storage unit (12d) for storing, as speech, the sentences stored in the fourth storage unit; a sixth storage unit (12e) for storing words other than the names of the characters in the sentences stored in the fourth storage unit; a seventh storage unit (12f) for storing, as speech, the words stored in the sixth storage unit; an eighth storage unit (12g) for storing the words stored in the sixth storage unit, as words in a foreign language; and a ninth storage unit (12h) for storing, as foreign-language speech, the words stored in the eighth storage unit. The language learning device and method therefor of the present invention are advantageous for learning in that they enable the student to remember words for a long time and to learn a large number of words and foreign-language sentences (dialogue) in a short time.
LANGUAGE LEARNING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR