This is for sure a world of visuals. Virtually everything that we learn is perceived visually. Have it occurred to you that is the way that babies learn language, not verbally but visually! In the video I have shared with you here, "MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with video cameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn".
Actually a language is highly situational. This means that you cannot easily and successful, for example, learn and master Spanish language while in The US. To do this easily, you need to buy a ticket and travel to Mexico actually stay there for a while to learn Spanish. This is because language is embed in culture and culture can not easily be defined, though it is highly visual. We can see culture around the house, in the way buildings are constructed, people's dress, both visual and verbal languages, what people trade in, how they form relationships, how they marry, in the food they eat and so on. Yet, all these can not be definitively stated in two or three sentences. However, it creates the vital environment filled with visual cues that are essential for the learning of verbal language. This context is very important, the crying of the baby shows that some adult person is going to be in trouble, unless he or she gets things in order.
Simply stated, Deb's research suggests, for example most kitchen vocabulary can be learned by a baby easily when they are in the Kitchen, and so are the bedroom, sittingroom, dinning room, bathroom and so on. This is basically due to how critical visual cue are to the learning process.
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