Dictatext is based on a method for language learning and development technique used in the former Soviet and Eastern-European educational systems.

The technique aids language acquisition through memorisation, rather than through learning grammar rules and memorising vocabulary lists.

Many learners have said that memorising texts has given them language that they are later able to produce automatically they need it. In other words, they have internalised the language they want to learn.

Recent research into language aquisition has also highighted the effectiveness of text memorisation.