• Home
  • Professional Experience
    • Teacher
    • Programmer
    • Animator
    • Designer
  • Personal Experience
    • Creative
    • Press
    • Web Projects
  • Entrepreneural Experience
  • Discarded Ideas Blog

BOOK IDEA

6/16/2014

0 Comments

 

Learn 300 Spanish Words in 3 Minutes

Picture
A Spanish vocabulary word book that is organized in a new way.  A 1000 word vocabulary is all you need to be functional in a language. the first chapter (and the gimmick) is a list of all the words in Spanish that are spelled the exact same way in English (mosquito, idea, general, etc) with their Spanish pronunciation and a sample sentence.  The second chapter contains all the words that only change a letter or two in their Spanish equivalent (momento/moment, problema/problem, posible/possible, etc), their pronunciation, and a sample sentence.  The following chapters are more traditional word groupings and mnemonic devices to learn the remaining words.  The key idea is to make the idea of learning vocabulary less daunting… i.e. “See how much you already know!”

Stickymmersion Chapter- The best way to learn a language is through immersion.  This chapter groups nouns together by location in a house or office (kitchen, bedroom, supply closet, etc) and ask the reader to copy each one on a sticky note and stick it to the thing(door, night table, paperclips, etc).  This works on several levels, the act of writing down words helps commit them to memory, posting them in conspicuous places ensures that you will interact with them regularly, and externalizing your learning helps bring others like family and friends into the process to encourage and assist you.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Hello.  I'm a creative sort of a fellow, and I'm always coming up with ideas.  I have notebooks filled with them.  I'll be posting them here from time to time.  If you like one and wish to adopt it, feel free.

    Archives

    July 2014
    June 2014
    February 2013
    November 2012
    April 2012
    May 2011
    March 2011
    January 2011
    October 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010

    Categories

    All
    3D Printing
    Art
    Book
    Con
    Facebook
    Food
    Game
    Hygene
    Jobs
    Phone
    Programming
    Software
    Tv Show
    Unemployment
    Work

    RSS Feed