An important part of learning languages is to remember tons of new words. Luckily they can all be remembered in a way that is way more effective than the technique used in almost all classrooms around in world (that is the usual repetition method, where the students repeat the word again and again until it is remembered).
The trick to remember foreign words is to associate the sound of the word with an extraordinary image that reminds you of the meaning of the word.
An Example
Let’s say you want to remember the …

Summer is closing in, so it’s time to be brutal with yourself and get in shape. Everybody can run a bit here and there, but if you really want to get in shape, you need to train consistently for several months or more.
Doing a bit of running here and there doesn’t work, you need to make a plan and follow it. If you don’t do so, you will never become a ninja commando.
When you make your plan, you need to remember than training harder and harder doesn’t do it …

Last week I started to really focus on learning to read and write Thai. Problem is the Thai language uses an alphabet that has descended from Khmer language, so the Thai alphabet doesn’t look anything like the Latin alphabet I use to write this post
Most courses in reading and writing Thai start out by teaching you the alphabet, the order of the letters and the items associated with the consonants (someone once decided to associate the Thai consonants with items to make them easier to remember. All the …