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Fluent Forever - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Flashcard creation - new words connecting to as many images, thoughts, and memories you can find; core connections of context and of equal importance, you're having a good, and therefore, memorable time in the process
      - Personal connection questions: when was the first time you saw...? When was the last time...? Do you like to ...? Am I ...? How has ...affected me?
      - try to stick with proper nouns or places on the back of vocab flashcards for personal connection
      - Dual encoding, multisensory visualization, connecting to personal experience, SRS
      - Take pictures when applicable
      - Spend time trying to think of image first
    - - Backchaining to learn how to pronounce difficult words
      - the IPA
        
        Phonetic Alphabet helps in memorization--it's another way to encode
      - you can make images for spelling--cat on horse (chat & cheval)
      - Associating a sound, rhyming, with words, is enough of a connection to be memorable
    - - Memory game: spend a few seconds looking for any memory that comes to mind, then add on flashcard; the giver
      - Mnemonic Image game: Masculine blowing up, feminine catching fire, neuter shattering; glass statue shattering
      - Instead of switching to english, play taboo in spanish; taboo
        
        fluency is about improvisation; jazz saxophone
        
        no english allowed; german coastgaurd
        
        this is the most important game in the book; greatest showman
      - Spot the differences game: Use google images to gain context of words, and see caption (only spend 20-30 seconds); where's waldo
    - - You can make flashcards with the grammar sentence missing a word
        
        You need a clear, concise understandable stories
        
        When you encounter a confusing example, just turn it into a story
      - PAO system
        
        you can group irregularities with the same object or person
        
        you can remember patterns, but you still need a way to know which words follow which patterns
        
        Verbs: person or object
        
        nouns: person or action
        
        Adjectives: objects
        
        adverbs : actions
        
        the person is the mnemonic object (like patrick stewart), the action is the verb you're trying to remember
      - start with grammar book and take one or two rules, then move on to the next topic
      - for word forms, you give yourself an extra clue (to be)
      - like 10 flash cards of the same grammar sentence
      - you can use english to search for images on grammar; not playing spot the difference
      - (for declension charts) make every sentence unique
      - Use flashcards to take whatever you find intereesting: "does this sentence contain something new?" Do you know all hte words? have you seen those word forms? what's surprising?
  - - - Lang-8.com
      - italki.com
    - - if you don't have the words or grammar, then use Google translate to help
      - put every correction you receive into your flash cards