In order to succeed, the ULAT expects the learner to respect the following guidelines :

1. When performing timed activities, usually PowerPoint presentations, intended to measure how rapidly you can produce a word or sentence in response to an image or series of images, DO NOT advance beyond that lesson until you can succeed at the fastest pace dictated by that timed drill.

2. Actually perform the ULAT gestures at all times when instructed to do so.

3. Until Unit 11, when extensive and somewhat more advanced reading must be performed, avoid seeking translations, either by asking them of someone else or by the use of a dictionary or textbook.

4. Be patient with normal imprecision of understanding regarding the exact meaning of a word in the early stages of language learning.*

*The learner must be willing to live with some uncertainty regarding the exact meaning of some words in the initial stage of learning. For example, in the second lesson, you will see the picture of a man gesturing toward an apartment building and you will hear a corresponding word. At first, you will not be sure whether the word corresponds in English to "home", "to live", "to point", "apartment building", , etc. This uncertainty is completely normal and you experienced it as a child as you learned your first language. In short order, greater experience with that word, and hearing it in other contexts, will render its meaning increasingly clear. Remember...it is far better to experience some initial imprecision of understanding while learning a word's meaning in the right way, than to have it forever engraved in your memory in the wrong way (i.e., linked to your native language and thus requiring unwieldy 3-step thought).