Memory systems and language learning
I teach and learn languages. I have read countless books on language learning, but more important I have had years of first hand experience with language learning. There are scores of language learning products on the market from books to software to memory masters. What do I think is the best way […]
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Mnemonics
July 11, 1975 Stanford university did a study on teaching Russian vocabulary with memory mnemonics. The mnemonics study was called “Teaching a Large Russian Language Vocabulary by the Mnemonic Keyword Method”. The result was those who used memory mnemonics to learn Russian, learned Russian vocabulary faster and performed better on tests than people who do […]
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Transliteration and mnemonics- how to learn new words in a foreign language
Transliteration
One important technique for learning new words is writing out the pronunciation of the new word you are trying to learn in your own way of sounding it out. It is is like your own transliteration. If you sound out a work they way […]
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how to remember
Do you remember the scene in Saving Private Ryan when Private Ryan could not remember any of his brother’s faces? And Captain Miller played by Tom Hanks said ‘it is because you are not associating it with anything, try to remember a specific memory, than you will see their faces.’ Similarly […]
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