Our brains are hard-wired for visual thinking and processing. The only reason why many people have difficulty thinking visually is because this skill has been "educated out" at school, where children are expected to sit still and listen to the teacher all day.

It only takes a single glance to "take in" and comprehend the graph. It's the same information in both cases.

Studies have shown that people (no matter how out of practice they are at visual thinking) can recognize thousands of images, but only around 30-40 words at a time. Especially if the pictures are in some way bizarre or shocking.

Think of all the people you have met in your life. You can probably remember most of their faces, but only a few of their names. Right?

The other thing that we are able to remember remarkably well is stories! Somehow, if we can turn a list of unrelated items into a story that links all the items together then it is easy to remember them.

The Read Thai in a Day e-course has been designed so that you "see" a picture when you look at the shape of a letter. The picture has all sorts of associations and connotations, which leads to a chain of facts bound together in a rich, visual story.

It's almost impossible to remember rules and unrelated facts without first organizing them into a coherent story. So instead of having meaningless letter "classes", Read Thai in a Day uses three genders: boy, girl and ladyboy. Each gender is associated with a personality, and you can then work out the tones and properties of each Thai word by thinking of the visual story that goes with each personality.

Once you have completed the course, you will have an entire movie in your head, complete with weird characters and bizarre storylines that are all connected to a larger "plot".

It only takes a few hours to understand (or "see") the story and then a little actual reading practice for it to be integrated into your subconscious mind. It's a bit like learning to drive: after a while, it all becomes as automatic as a muscle reflex.

Indeed, after a while, you won't remember how you remember. You'll just be able to read - as you do in English... without thinking about it.