Learning spanish has never been easier

Learning Spanish Has Never Been Easier

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Mnemonic memory training is a memory system that allows you to store information in and recall it from your long-term memory, and, in the case of learning a new language, your speech center. Mnemonics gives you a way to organize information, store it, and recall it. The better information is organized and stored, the easier you will be able to recall it when it is needed and the longer it will stay in your head. If you do mnemonics correctly, you concentrate and focus on info...

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Mnemonic memory training is a memory system that allows you to store information in and recall it from your long-term memory, and, in the case of learning a new language, your speech center. Mnemonics gives you a way to organize information, store it, and recall it. The better information is organized and stored, the easier you will be able to recall it when it is needed and the longer it will stay in your head. If you do mnemonics correctly, you concentrate and focus on information you want to remember in a way that will almost guarantee you will never forget it.

Some twenty-five years after going through my first mnemonic memory course, I still recall vocabulary words in French and I do not speak French at all. In the course, as an exercise, we learned some French words using the Substitute Word Systema mnemonic deviceand I still can remember them. Now that is Memory Training. This is what mnemonics does for you: it creates a way for a simple, effective, and efficient storage and retrieval system. In other words, mnemonics provides you a way to find the information in your head. It is essentially like a search engine on the Internet in your head.

Some offer criticism of mnemonics. They say mnemonic training does not teach you to understand the information you are trying to remember. I find this a nonsense objection. Why would you be trying to remember something you do not understand? The very fact that you want to recall something means, in some way or other, you have a need to recall it and it implies there is at least some understanding of the material you are trying to remember.

Another criticism is mnemonic training is time-consuming. The truth is that it is indeed time consumingall memory work is. But would you rather engage in something that will guarantee you will be able to remember the information or engage in some rote memory exercise that will almost guarantee you will NOT recall the information? I find I can store more than twenty NEW Spanish vocabulary words per day and ALWAYS remember them. I know some who can do ten times that amount.

Example of How I do it:

1) despejadoclear as in a clear sky

Imagine a clear skya totally beautiful dayspades suddenly materialize in the sky and begin falling like deadly arrows. This causes you to have to hide under a huge mound of dough until the danger passes.

2) el dependientethe clerk

Imagine L tells a restaurant check out clerk that he depends on begin able to come in each day for a spot of tea.

3) el paothe cloth

Imagine L walks up to a giant pan that is playing with a yoyo and tells him that his yoyo looks dirty and offer the pan a cloth to clean it.

4) el carbnthe coal

Imagine L rigs a car bomb. When he sets it off, it explodes a geyser of coal out of the top of the car.

5) el destinatariothe addressee

Imagine L is dusting a tire while eating some cheerios when a dress he is wearing falls to his knees

6) dirigirseto address

Imagine a deer is a sales clerk in a dress shop, and is reading until she hears a customer say, I want you to add this dress to my bill.

7) intranquiloworried or anxious

Imagine being stuck in a trunk with a magic quill. You draw an O around the lock with the quill. The O turns into a worm that reads your anxious mind. It crawls into the lock of the trunk and opens the lock releasing you.

8) firmefirm or adamant

Imagine someone asking, Do you fear me? To which you reply, I adamantly do not fear you.

9) el barberothe barber

Imagine going to get you hair cut at the barbershop and L is the barber.

10) excusarseto apologize

Imagine that to excuse yourself from the table you have to go around the table and say an apology to everyone at the table.

11) los activosthe assets

Imagine that in Los Angeles that the favorite activity is to kick someones ass before taking their assets.

12) la almendrathe almond

Imagine an almond mending a dress.

13) la almejathe clam

Imagine Al Gore, every month of May, has to hide clams like Easter Eggs. Picture this visualizing a picture of Al Gore, a calendar page of the month of May, pictures of a clams all over the month of May, and then of Al Gore hiding them like Easter Eggs.

14) la ventajathe advantage

Imagine a vent traveling to Lake Tahoe to paint an ad on the side of a van of the Taj Mahal.

15) la anestesiathe anesthesia

Imagine seeing a nest on a table. You walk over to the nest to see in it. You find an egg that begins to hatch releasing a green anesthesia gas knocking you out.

16) aprobarto approve

Imagine sending a robotic flying probe in a bar to zap a criminal that have been proven guilty in a court of law.

17) tasarto asses

Imagine taking a taser and shocking an jackass until he sits.

18) el albaricoquethe apricot

Imagine L walks into a bar to see Al Gore sitting at a bar sharing coke and some cake with a giant blonde-woman apricot.

19) la enmiendathe amendment

Imagine finding in a mint a tiny sliver of paper. When you pull it out it pops open and unfurls into the U.S. Constitutional amendments.

20) enmendarto amend

Imagine in the mens bathroom, a there is another door in a stall that opens up to reveal a bunch of men trying to mend the cuffs of their trousers and darn their socks.

21) la viruelathe chicken pox

Imagine walking into a bar and seeing a beer swilling whale with a chicken filled box. There are feathers all over the floor and the chickens in the box are clucking loudly.

22) la chequerathe checkbook

Imagine a check reading a book.

23) el garbanzothe chickpea

Imagine L opening a garage door to discover a band sewing costumes with The Chick Pea embroidered on the backs of the costumes.

24) el dominiothe command, the dominion

Imagine L walks up to a domino setup and shouts at the first domino, I have the command over all of you because this is my dominionnow fall!

 

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