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

Other Examples
I could fill a whole book just with some of the craziest keyword-
association stories I’ve come up with. But here are some random ones to

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give you further inspiration:
Playa in Spanish means “beach.” For this, I imagined a cheesy pickup
artist (a “player”) strolling down a beach I know well, trying to pick up
pretty Spanish girls but getting slapped in the face; to give the story a
comedic effect, the slaps made it easier to remember.
The German example I began the chapter with, der Tisch—this word to me
sounds like the start of the word “tissue.” So I imagine trying to sit down
to dinner at a table made entirely out of tissues, which collapses as soon as
I put my bowl of soup on it. The soup then spills all over the floor and a
little on me . . . so then I have to mop it up with all the tissues I have!
The Czech word prvni looks and sounds nothing like any English word I
can think of, but it’s an important word to learn since it means “first.” For
this, I inserted a few vowels to make it easier and came up with “pro van.”
I imagined a very complex scene of me winning the “professional van
Olympics,” driving up into “first” place on the podium in my strange-
looking white van, crying as I am handed my bouquet of flowers and the
medal is placed around my neck, while I remain in the driver’s seat. “Pro
van” is easy to remember from this scene and, with a little repetition,
you’ll be able to instantly recall prvni.
These examples are all nouns (things). To expand on them and
remember verbs (action words), adjectives (description words like “big,”
“red,” “closed,” etc.), and adverbs (“quickly,” “happily”), you can still use a
noun to make the connection.
For instance, to remember that verde (pronounced somewhat like bird-
ay, which itself sounds like “birdie”) is “green” in Spanish, I imagined
green grass. The first thing that comes to mind with the adjective “green” is,
of course, grass, which suddenly transforms into millions of cute green
birdies flocking into the air and leaving the field as nothing but soil, when it
was so beautiful and green before.