•The Silent Way is better understood if experienced rather than read about, since any description fails to capture actual learner engagement. The method appears to have a special focus on teaching pronunciation, and many language educators agree that the principle of sound-color correspondence, which the Silent Way invokes, provide learners with an “inner resource to be used” (Stevick, 1980), which helps to establish a true feel for the language, “its diction, rhythm, and melody” (Blair, 1991).