Comments on: How to Learn a Language in Less Than 24 Hours

By: Andrew Weiler

Andrew Weiler — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:05:02 +0000

I am a little intrigued by this development. I like the idea of developing language learning into a game like exercise that is addictive etc. This calls upon the kind of language learning that we will be drawn to ( not force ourselves to the table)
However the idea that memorisation will result in language learning is a mistaken belief. That is the very reason why so many people struggle to learn a second language. No infant memorised any part of the mother tongue. Attempting to memorise yourself to fluency is something that VERY few can achieve. Why that happens is a whole other story.
There are powerful ways to learn that don’t call upon memorisation but upon our other impressive human faculties… check out http://www.strategiesinlanguagelearning.com/how-to-remember-vocabulary/ for some ideas on that.

By: Lord Fish

Lord Fish — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:44:20 +0000

It seems like the Memrise site has been down since July.

By: Ulrike Rettig

Ulrike Rettig — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:01:56 +0000

Awesome! Another “takeaway” from this article is that short bursts (20 minutes or less) of intense learning can be very productive. In between these short learning sessions, the mind keeps working to process the vocabulary. That’s much better than spending long periods of time memorizing something.
Creating visual associations is also a good technique for memorization, I think many of us do that automatically. I’ve heard lots of good things about Memrise. It’s true that vocabulary alone won’t make you fluent, but words and phrases are the building blocks of language. The next step is to start using words and phrases in context so that what you say makes sense.

By: stephen

stephen — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:47:47 +0000

http://slargon.com/ it is a video language library of slang, idioms and other peculiar language