Fluent Forever

• 折枝儿

  2020-12-03
  Make memories more memorable* Structure: How many capital letters are in the word BEAR?* Sound: Does APPLE rhyme with Snapple？* Concept: Is TOOL another word for “instrument”?* abstract* concrete* Personal Connection: Do you like PIZZA?* Learn the sound system of your language* Bind those sounds to images* Bind those images to your past experiencesMaximize laziness* Rote repetition is boring, and it doesn’t work for long-term memorization.* Take the lazy route instead: study a concept until you can repeat it once without looking and then stop. After all, lazy is just another word for “efficient”.Don’t review. Recall.* Spend most of your time recalling rather than reviewing* Recall: study + test* Create flash cardsWait, wa...
• 折枝儿

  2020-12-03
  A good grammar bookA phrase bookA frequency dictionary A pronunciation guideBilingual dictionary Monolingual dictionary Thematic vocabulary book
• 珏儿

  2017-06-15
  The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. -Carl Sagan
• 珏儿

  2017-06-07
  we are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply encrossed in anything, than when we are at play. -Charles Schaefer
• 珏儿

  2017-06-03
  accent is the soul of language; it gives language its feeling and truth.-Jean-Jacques Rousseeau, Émile.
• 珏儿

  2017-05-29
  language learning is one of the most intensely personal journeys you can undertake.
• 珏儿

  2017-05-29
  If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.-Arnold Schwarzenegger
• 珏儿

  2017-05-29
  A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. -Alexander Smith
• 珏儿

  2017-06-09
  First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play. -Charlie Parker.
• 珏儿

  2017-06-12
  The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. -Dr Seuss