I'm new hear and my english is very good so dont beat me hard and ofcourse as a polite person i apologize because of my bad english .

So i read all post and i hope i understand in right way in general.

Here is my conclusion about all your posts.

We all are different and we all need different approach you cant suggest one approach to all.I think it's just wrong.Same is with the health,sport,job and so on.And best what i find is ayurveda which more or less correctly explain what is best for that or another person.And i'm very curios maybe some day some one will use it even in english and i think it will be very useful because in things like job and sport,food health,thoughts and so on it works.

About imigination approach.Ofcourse it works.When you was kid how you learned new words?Only through real contact feelings,pain,smell,imagination,seeing and so on..

Since we dont have around us language which we learning.What can we do?Only imagine,talk withself,listen some podcast,maybe watch some movie or radio or read and so on.

Since i dont have mp3 player i'm using flashcard(i hope i understand this word righ .Writing on it some word and when in job i have pause or free time i took it and trying to make sentence.trying to make sentence with real situation or my dreams.But i found that it not really works.No i understand why.Because it was not colorful.In other words it was maybe boring or not very much important for me.

I think to learn any language we need to surround us with it.But not only with sentence or sounds or text but with feeling emotions and so on.

I think all you here acctually trying to remember to revise how you learned your all native language.For me all your posts,thoughts basicly lead to your childhood.

And conclussion for now for me is simple to learn any language all what you need is to make your enviroment around as much as possible native.:)

So one more time sorry about my super duper english.I hope you will understand me.I started learning english only two month ago(acctually i'm not learning)i just listening that's all.Now i will use imagination more and i believe it will help.

Thanks to all that you remind me some things from my childhood.

Ye i know very weird post )

see ya with respect and love Edmunds

On method that I've found useful is to remember a familiar room (bed room as a child, etc), and associate each item in that room with a word, sentence, story, etc. It helps for recall and makes the creation of the stories go quickly. All you have to do is mentally pick up or look at that object and the word will come back to you.

This post reminded me of a book by memory champ Dominic O'brien (http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Memory-Power-Impr...).

His central techniques are very similar to yours, using very sensory images and associations to create memories the way that our brain does it best. The book includes techniques for memorizing vocabulary and a system for remembering gender as well. It is an incredible guide for improving one's memory in general.

Thanks again!
-Nicky

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glad you liked the post. I think the website’s only available in Dutch. If you have any questions about the program, feel free to ask them. But I guess there are a lot of English programs to study words in the same way.

Italian must be a fascinating language as well. I took a few classes during high school and it’s one of the languages that’s on my list with languages I wish to learn before I die.

I really love Russian. I decided to study it because it was so different from all the languages I knew. Most people are already scared off by the alphabet. As you probably know, Russian uses the Cyrillic script. Personally, I didn’t have much trouble studying the alphabet so it’s definitely not an excuse. There are tons of exercises to practise the alphabet and you should be able to master it after a few hours of intense study.

As I said in my previous post, Russian has declension, which can seem complicated at first to people with a native language that doesn’t have declension. I studied Greek-Latin in high school and that really helped me, because I already knew how to use different cases. But of course it’s possible to study Russian even if you don’t know anything about cases.

I don’t know how English speakers experience Russian (I’m assuming your mother tongue is English), but as it is so different from west-European languages I guess it’s more or less the same to English speakers as it is to Dutch speakers. There are some words you can link to English, Dutch, German or French words, but then again most words are completely different from anything we know. I think that pronunciation can also cause some trouble. Russian words can hold sequences of quite a few consonants. Furthermore, there are hard and soft vowels and consonants and wordstress is very important.

This may sound complicated, but don’t let it hold you back from studying Russian. It’s a beautiful language and if you want to study it, you should. I really love it and the fact that it’s so different only makes it more fascinating.

I hope that was a sufficient answer to your question. Should you have other questions, just let me know.

thanks for your post – what an interesting way to study and revise vocab lists. I shall try the website you recommend.

You mention that you’re upper intemediate English, wow! I’m upper intemediate Italian but would struggle a great deal to write a post like this in Italian!

Can I ask, how are you finding studying Russian? I am thinking of also studying Russian but am a little nervous about it!

thanks!

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