These are all extremely plausible, being based on Association of ideas, and in most cases the pupil makes great progress for a short time.

Thus, we can remember the French for bread, _pain_, Italian _Pane_, by thinking of the pan in which bread is baked, or the difficult name of the inventor, SSCZEPANIK (pronounced nearly _she-panic_) by thinking of a crowd of frightened women, and which I remembered by the fact that _pane_ is the Slavonian for Mr.or Sir.

For there is such a tendency of ideas to agglutinate, and so become more prominent, as we can see two bubbles together in a pool more readily than one that we can very soon learn to recall many images in this way.
But after a time a certain limit is reached which most minds cannot transgress.

VOLAPUK was easy so long as, like Pidgin-English, it contained only a few hundred words and no grammar.

But now that it has a dictionary of 4,000 terms and a complete grammar it is as hard to learn as Spanish.