The only way to really learn vim is to suffer through it until it clicks. The experience is so fundamentally different than other editors, that menus would just prevent that from happening. That said, some editors, like Sublime Text 2 (my current favorite) have a vi mode that functions pretty closely to how vi does. It's another way to ease your way into the vi mindset, as it were. Personally, I know enough vi to get around but not enough to prefer it. It's simy a matter of necessity though, as vi is the only editor I've found installed on every system I need to edit on. Too bad it couldn't at least be vim though.