Comments on: Let’s Talk Thai: How the Brain Learns

By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:06:10 +0000

Sean, the problem with Thai is that the words can’t always be made into images. The Thai alphabet can, and that’s how I learned it so quickly after failing for such a long and frustrating time.

By: Sean Darryll

Sean Darryll — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:48:48 +0000

great article and good thread going on here.. Yes memory loss can definitely be reversed with proper diet, exercise and all the information presented here in this article as well as good memorization techniques. I used to have a bad memory, and over the years i’ve brought so many books and tapes..lol.. Yes there is a lot of techniques out there.. Being able to visualize and turn abstract things into images i think is the most important skill to learn. its far easier and faster to run through images in your mind, and repeat over a periods of a few days to make a permanent connection, then to keep read something hopeing it sticks. You have to have a picture in your mind.. A pic is worth a thousands words. I can learn 50 new words every four days(some people can do a whole lot more).. I just encode words into images that represent the word(red light -stop,turkey – thanks giving, etc..) .. use the Cicero method(items in rooms in my house) and place those 50 images ie make a connection between the Cicero item and the image representing the word.. take a mental journey around my house and recall the images, and then i attach another image representing pronunciation of the word in the foreign language(theirs techniques for that).. then i just keep taking mental journey whenever i get time during the next couple of days…then its sticks.. I can reuse same Cicero sequence again and again like a floppy disk

By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:52:18 +0000

Hi Mike. I’ve long been interested in the different memory methods, so thanks for stopping by. I have quite a few books on the subject, but so far I have not written a post dedicated to improving language learning with the memory methods available.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:00:52 +0000

Memory loss can be a result of many different reasons, but once there’s nothing medically wrong with you or your brain it can be reversed and even improved pretty easily. Learning a language is at the top of the list for maintaining your edge, and boosting brain power. Click my name/url for some memory tips, not spammy just offering a resource. Hope this helps.