Metaphors to learn a language
metaphors and language learning
Metaphors are barbells for the mind. A seemly simple sentence uses language, imagination in both an abstract and concrete sense. Using metaphors in language learning is a simple technique that brings more of what you already knows online.
Memory problems are more often than not a recall rather than a storage problem. Similarly in language learning the issues is often not that a student does not know a vocabulary word, but rather cannot recall it at the time they could use it, that is, it’s not activated. The language learner cannot use it when needed, but rather reverts to the same old patterns of use.
However, if you use metaphors as a practice you will eventually not only create some funny imaginative and poetic sentences but you will activate your language learning. Some people even claim this will help your general intelligence.
For example, you can start with 20 words and you will have to think of a metaphor for these words. Think about parts of the body. In your target language you could say ‘your eyes are like stars in the sky’ in heaven. Your hair is like flowers in the spring. These are love phrases but you can also create some with any theme. ‘Elves are light as the air’. You could write poems or anything that brings what you know out of you and more online so to speak.
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