Third, you’ll often learn key prefixes and suffixes without even trying—your language’s equivalents of the -er in teacher, or the -tion in train station—which will make future words with the same prefixes and suffixes easier to remember. Finally, when you get to grammar and abstract vocabulary, you’ll already know most of the words you need. This makes the rest of your new language much easier to learn. It’s easy to manage a sentence like “My dog chased a cat up a tree” when you already know dogs, cats, chasing, and trees. You’ll know the players and actions in your stories, and grammar will
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