@labbadabba - I meant communicating on the radio
Well, it depends where you're doing your training. If you're doing your training at a field with a tower, chances are, you'll pick up talking on the radio pretty quick.
What I did, is a had a script that I put on my note pad:
Who am I talking to: Anywhere Ground
Who am I: Cessna N12345
Where am I: At the FBO
What I want: Request taxi VFR
Where I'm going: Eastbound departure (with the weather)
Then I had a space for the instructions:
N12345, taxi to and hold short of runway 36 via Alpha Bravo
So for every major radio communication, (e.g., taxi clearance, take-off clearance, pattern entry, landing clearance) I would use that script. It was a bit laborious at first but once you do it a few times it starts to stick and you become more comfortable. Most communication follows that order and so your ears begin to listen for the keywords.
If you're flying from a non-towered airport then it's a bit harder to pick up on that kind of stuff. There are the standard radio calls for non-towered ops that are in the Airplane Flying Handbook that follow a slightly different script:
Who am I talking to: Anywhere Traffic
Who am I: White and Blue Cessna N12345
Where am I: 5 miles south
What I intend: Will enter left downwind for runway 18
Who am I talk to: Anywhere Traffic
Here you don't really get instructions that you need to explicitly read back but you may get other pilots around that can provide useful information as to their position.
If you practice those scripts for different scenarios on your own, you'll get it pretty quickly.
