Has anyone tried this?
Basically it gives you the words and links in a cartoon format.
It would seem to save the overhead of creating the images, but then maybe that is not a good thing?
However, my response to “200 words a day?” is “Yes, please!”
Gavino
Have you used this system? Once I get better (and after I complete a few other desired things I need to commit to Memory), I would like to be able to learn Tagalog and learning 200+ words a day would be pretty sweet!
I use memrise and have memorised about 400 words in 5 days (bear in mind that I’ve been extremely busy and this was just something I was doing on the side).
Honestly, 400 words a week isn’t bad either. That’s more than I learned in 6 months in the conventional Spanish class! I would totally be happy with 400 words in 5 days. Especially if it wasn’t your main priority. That means that you could vamp that up by a few hunderd if you put your mind to it.
Hi
that’s crazy!
how did U do?
Sounds very doable to me. Being able to use the words fluently is the part that is going to take a lot more time. It’s unfortunate, but you could at least fly to a European country and learn the most relevant words about directions, food, money, and niceties while you were on the plane!
This depends a great deal on what you mean by “learning” a word. If you’re just looking to recognize the word and nothing more, then it’s definitely well within the realm of possibility for most people.
But, if you intend to be able to produce the words that’s where things get a bit dicier. Trying to learn 200 words a day means that you’ll very quickly hit a point where it’s not possible to properly review the words that you’re learning. At the end of the week, you’ll be needing to review probably somewhere between 1000 and 1400 words depending upon how quickly you’re picking up on them.
I wouldn’t personally characterize creating your own images as “overhead” if you’re ever needing to learn words that you haven’t been given mnemonics for, you’ll have to create your own images. And don’t forget that when you create the images yourself, it means you have to create original awareness by deep processing them; which should help with future recall.
Remember that language is more about sentence constructs and idioms (native use of prepositions, articles, pronouns, verbs, and so on) than it is about vocabulary.
Unless you know how to use the words idiomatically, you’re not really learning them.
Learn ALL the essential idiomatic constructs first, and then yes, learn hundreds of words a day after those are solid and all your new words can fit into the system.
Since you’re dealing with Spanish, you can also learn and memorize a couple of simple rules and instantly understand thousands of words about 10 seconds later.
Many words that end with TION can be made into Spanish by changing TION to CIÓN. In fact, I took that example from the sales page of a product you should really consider taking for your Spanish training. He has more valuable examples like this there:
http://www.shortcuttospanish.com/course.html
Memorize these rules he presents and you will literally know more words in Spanish than you can shake a stick at in just a few seconds. (In suggesting learning these rules, I’m assuming that English is your mother tongue, by the way).
As for the other suggestions, yes, you truly can memorize a couple hundred words in a day. But the value of this comes down to also reading, writing, speaking and hearing the language on a daily basis while you’re doing this core memorization and reviewing the words. Otherwise, you’ll be memorizing the vocabulary for limited ends.
That said, without speaking and listening, you could make great strides with a conlang, either learning or building, or a dead language/scriptual language, so do take the 4 language learning rules of speaking, writing, listening and reading with a grain of salt. They don’t universally apply to all situations.
There is a book that I read from Ramon Campayo that shows you how to learn a language in 7 days. And of course, you are not fluent but you can at least communicate yourself. I tried it with german, and the goal was achieved more or less. Then, understanding people is way more difficult, but I could ask for easy things and so on.
The method is based in filling a table of the around 700 most used words in that language. In 3 days, you should have memorised them, and reviewed them. And from my point of view, it is possible, however it was a bit tedious for me (maybe because of my lack of memory practice). Basically what you do is associations of every word with visual scenes and images that makes you remember the word.
For those interested, the book is called ‘Aprende un idioma en 7 dias’. As I said, it is in spanish, I don’t really know if there is some translation.
Great info for research - thanks !