Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

part of me as its English equivalent. The way I got it into my memory is
irrelevant; the point is that it’s there now. For inspiration on keyword
associations while you get better at creating your own, visit Memrise.com.
Spaced Repetition: Another Great Way to Build Vocabulary
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If, however, the keyword method doesn’t sound right for you, I’ve also had
a lot of success using flash cards ordering the words or phrases by
implementing what’s known as the spaced repetition system.
Consider the way we traditionally learn vocabulary: We go through a
list of new words in a book in the sequence in which they appear. Often we
don’t finish the list before we have to stop, and perhaps only halfway
through that list. When we review the list the next time, we start again at the
beginning. What’s the problem with this? You never get to the end of the
list. You just keep going over the words you already know, while you rarely
reach the ones you don’t know. You are effectively wasting your time on
revising vocabulary that you already know well by now.
Spaced repetition uses flash cards and asks you to keep the hard words
you didn’t remember at the top of the deck and push to the bottom the
words you already know. Essentially, the quicker you remember a word, the
deeper in the deck it ends up. With physical flash cards, this is implemented
by you. You make sure any “hard” words you didn’t remember sit on the
top of the deck and you slip the easy words much farther down in the stack.
The quicker you remember a word, the farther down it should go.
My preference is to streamline this with technology using smartphone
apps and free software, which let you order words based on their level of
difficulty. By clicking a button, you can indicate how difficult that