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Remember 1,500+ Spanish Words: Fire up Your Memory Using Imagination and Mnemonics to Learn New Spanish Vocabulary!
Remember 1500 Spanish Words Fire up Your Memory Using Imagination and Mnemonics to Learn New Spanish Vocabulary Author:Mark Harmon Tired of learning Spanish vocabulary using boring, rote memorization? Looking for a quicker, more efficient strategy for remembering? Mnemonics is the answer! Memorization and review can be reduced to a fraction of the normal time with mnemonics?and it?s more fun. Mnemonics refers to any technique for improving or developing the memory. In our c... more »ase, it is the use of associations and visualization in order to remember Spanish words. You can remember any new vocabulary word by associating the unfamiliar word with something you already know. For example, the word for ?sidewalk? in Spanish is ?acera? (a-SE-ra), but it has no concrete value for you. It looks like mumbo-jumbo. So, when you think of the word ?sidewalk? in English, try to vividly picture in your mind?s eye ?a Sarah? walking on the sidewalk (acera). ?A Sarah? is something you know?not gibberish. Think of a personal Sarah acquaintance, or pick a well-known public figure, like Sarah Palin or Sarah Jessica Parker. Then the next time you see the word ?sidewalk,? try to remember what you had associated it with. Aah, it was the image of ?a Sarah? walking on it. The Spanish word must be ?acera.? Voilą! How many words can you learn with mnemonics? One memory expert mentioned in the book writes of taking 20 new foreign vocabulary words and teaching them to his students every evening using mnemonics, which they easily remember. That would be 4,800 in a year! How quickly can you learn new vocabulary like this? The author listened to 9 random French words called out in 53 seconds. By making associations with the words as they were called out, he was able to remember all of them immediately afterward. That was less than six seconds allocated for each word! In this book, an example sentence in Spanish is included with each word. The example sentences have been edited by two different native Spanish speakers?one from Costa Rica, and a language teacher from Argentina. To make the book more interesting, it has over 100 random cartoon illustrations of some of the example mnemonic sentences.« less