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Three Memory Techniques to Help you Learn a Foreign Language

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Learning a new language can be a difficult task. But if you use these simple memory exercises / techniques that could start learning a new language quickly. Memory Technology: The word percent
Not much to say about this particular technique. I know it works for me. The idea is that only 100 strong words to cover more than 50% of all words used in conversation. Learning these 100 words are a big step forward to speak a new language or at least make a basic conversation.
But what are those 100 strong words? It depends on the language and yourself. You decide the strong words, since each individual uses and / or suffer from words in a unique way. You can create a list of words and continue to add words to the list. Start with the first ten numbers one to ten. Then add the words I use very often. You will find hundreds of words than of his everyday vocabulary.
After completing his list of words in the native language to write words of foreign language, next to the words of their mother tongue. Exercise to learn / memorize new words and you will notice a significant improvement in speech with others who use the foreign language. Technical Report B: good memory
The idea behind this technique is to use images to link words in their mother tongue and foreign language. What you do is to associate all the words with the images in his mind. Then it starts to connect and create new words by connecting images.
Here is an example of how words create images in his mind:
Want to learn the Greek word for the English word “Eagle.” First you imagine an eagle spread his wings and fly over the mountains. After creating the image in your mind time to look at the Greek word here is “Aetos”. When you read / say the Greek word, try to imagine the same image in his brain, that of the eagle flies among the clouds. In this way your brain will immediately create a new connection between word and image of the eagle. This technique will help you learn and remember new words quickly and effectively. Technical Report C: Environment Mnemonic
This method is very sophisticated and is based on the fact that the basic vocabulary of any language is somehow connected / related to everyday things in their environment (which must define its own environment, whether a room, a house, town, city, etc.) You must start with a place and location are known. The idea is to begin to connect words with objects or places in their environment.
For example, could be associated in his mind the word “library” with the local library image and the word “book” with pictures of the books in the library. One might associate the word “park” with a park in your city and the word “tree”, with the trees of the park.
This method is so easy and fun when you try to create sentences using a combination of memory techniques described above. From here you can create an image of something like this “.. I went to the local library to borrow a book and then I went to the park to read the book …”