Completing a Level 2 Language Session

This guide explains how to complete a Level 2 language session with your language helper. At this stage, you’ll start forming your own sentences — asking and answering simple questions and talking about what you see in daily life. You’ll gain confidence talking about your surroundings and activities in real time.

1. Prepare Your Preloaded Routine Images

Prepare for the session with your language helper by choosing a resource set that contains the steps and setting of a familiar community activity you've experienced (e.g., washing clothes at the river).

2. Listen as the Helper Narrates the Routine

Ask your helper to walk through the activity while describing each step aloud in the local language.

If the explanation is hard to follow the first time, ask them to repeat it more slowly, as many times as you need.

You can suggest steps based on what you remember observing to help fill in any gaps.

3. Practice Out-of-Order Commands

Next, ask the helper to give you steps out of order, so you must listen closely and respond with the correct action. Start with two steps and gradually increase.

You may need to inform your helper that this out-of-order format helps you focus on language comprehension, not just memorized routines.

4. Record a Full Process Description

Have the helper describe the full routine from start to finish while you record it in the app.

This recording should be around 3–8 minutes.

5. Describe the Setting

Now, use your pre-loaded setting photos to ask your helper to give a simple spoken description of the setting (e.g., the river, weather, clothes, and environment).

These setting descriptions should also be recorded and stored in the app, and each one should be 3–8 minutes.

You may need to model what kind of description you’re looking for in a second language (if appropriate) to help them get started.

6. Review Your Recordings for Comprehension

After the session, sit down with your helper and listen together to your recorded routine and setting texts.

Stop the recording whenever something is unclear, and have the helper explain the meaning. Listen through each recording multiple times until you feel confident understanding everything.

7. Practice Routine-Based Questions

Spend about 30 minutes with your helper asking and answering common “who, what, where, when, with what” questions based on your routine images.

Use the images you've been working with —people, objects, and settings—and follow a Q&A pattern. For example, your language helper can ask questions such as

• “Where is the man washing clothes?” → Point to the river.
• “What is the woman holding?” → Point to the soap.

• “When is he washing clothes?” → Point to the picture of ‘today’.

  As you become more comfortable, start giving short spoken answers instead of just pointing.

• Have your language helper record questions and answers using the images.