I've been travelling far and wide lately and using the train a great deal lately. In particular I have been impressed with the Eurostar service from London to Brussels. In fact I have written a bit about the Eurostar... and added a bit of Spanish, French and German train and travelling stuff to the article. Travelling on Eurostar.

Which is a good reason to give some examples of travel words in Spanish, French and German, with some groovy little Memory Triggers from our 200 Words a Day! courses. Later I talk a bit about the old IN-OUT business. Read on.

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2. SPANISH TIP: A Red and Yellow TRAIN will help you remember a Spanish train
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Take a visual snapshot of this picture of a young man on a RED and YELLOW train. There are good reasons for it being a RED and YELLOW train. Not just any old colour. And there are some related train words too... like having enough money to stop a train. Did you also know that being like a train can mean to be handsome in Spanish? Or that there is part of an aircraft which is called a train?

How to remember the Spanish word for Train

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3. FRENCH TIP: A BUDGERIGAR at the Train Station
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Why is there are BUDGERIGAR at the Train Station, and who is the lady with it? Remember this picture and you'll remember the word for train station in French. Click on the link to find out, and also to learn a bunch of words related to train stations...

French for station.

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4. GERMAN TIP: Get Condoleeza RICE help you remember a JOURNEY?
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Seeing Condoleeza RICE going on a journey will help you remember the word for journey in German. And there are a bunch of words related to the German for journey too. Check the link.

German for journey. And there is a bunch of related words that you will find useful.

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5. A bit about the old IN-OUT...
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I'm not referring to the Old IN-OUT from Stanley Kubrick's movie 'A Clockwork Orange'. I am talking about getting things IN to, and OUT of, the subconscious, and your memory banks.

The Memory Trigger© is not just great for helping you remember something, and for assisting the recall process. For nouns it will also help with gender recognition, i.e knowing what gender a thing is.

There are two important phases in the memorization process:

1. Getting it IN
2. Getting it OUT

Getting it IN

During the day the brain is constantly deleting 'irrelevant background noise' and not storing it into your hard drive of the brain. Of all the thousands of stimuli you sense throughout the day, the brain discards most of it. Car noise, the aircraft flying overhead, people crossing the road, cars drifting by, background muzac etc.

Significant stuff gets into the subconscious and is stored.

We tend to remember what is more important, or what has an impact.

So if a significant event occurs, this is indelibly printed in to the subconscious. For example, many people will know exactly what they were doing when news of the 9/11 crashes took place or on news of the death of Princess Diana. These events become natural Memory Triggers©.

But to make an 'ordinary' event memorable you can add a MEMORY TRIGGER©.

The world's Memory Masters tell us that the best way is create a silly visualization, and shoot this movie in your mind's eye.

We do this for each and every word of a foreign language, and take this one step further by giving you a cartoon of this visualization, and combine it with the Memory Trigger written and spoken, with the foreign word spoken by a native speaker so that you learn the correct, accurate pronunciation without the slightest nuance that a non-native will often inject.

Getting it OUT

That is, the more effort and time you put into putting the material IN to your subconscious, the easier it will be to get it OUT.

The more one has used the material, the more familiar it becomes, and the more links there are in the mind to the stored material.

If one does not immediately use the material, for example, foreign language vocabulary, then one needs to reinforce the learning, through review and restudy. There are optimum intervals at which someone should review learned material, if it is not put to immediate use, or if it is not associated with a memorable event, discussion or occurrence.

Scientists tell us that these optimum intervals (at which point learned material needs to be restudied or reviewed), are after 1 day, again after a week, a month, a 3 month period, and again after a year.

These previously mentioned events which embed the vocab or sentences of a foreign language, need not be earth-shattering. Most are just normal day-to-day occurrences, like a discussion with a sales assistant in a store while in a country where your target language is spoken. Hence that is the magic of the 'Total Immersion' situation, especially where you are forced to use your target language with someone who does not speak a word of a language with which you are conversant.

Without the reinforcement of such events, a Memory Trigger© is such a powerful tool. It gives you a bunch of hooks and links to remind you of a word or phrase, until you can use them in conversation.

Once you use them in conversation with a native speaker the words' use in context, i.e in a correct, and appropriate setting, further reinforces and consolidates the learning.

The more Memory Triggers© you can learn, the more material you will have stored in the subconscious of your brain, waiting for a chance to get put into real use in language. If you don't use the material, do remember to review it and restudy the Memory Triggers©, preferably at the optimum intervals, to consolidate the learning until you get into the situation where you can use the material and hear the vocabulary in its correct context.

And remember, once you learn one word, it can be the base to many others to which it is related. See the lessons in Sections 2, 3 and 4 of this newsletter. We give you a base word in French, Spanish and German, then we have a bunch of related words.

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6. Demo Videos available
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Now you can see how our courses work with our short 6 minute DEMO VIDEOS. These give a great overview of their workings with actual screenshots. They are available as downloads, at zero cost...zippo, zilch, nada. You can also download written reports of the same from the same page.

Check them out. I have used examples from our Spanish 200 Words a Day course for the Demo, but the principles are much the same for French, German, Welsh.

If you think I should do specific videos for each language let me know.

Here is a list of the Demo Videos, and reports that you can download.

1. The 3 Keys to Memorisation in Language Learning - 200 Words a Day Course Demo Video.

2. Superlearning and the Optimum Learning State - Alpha State.

3. How do you prove how many words-a-day you are learning?.

4. Improved Breathing and Learning - 5 things you should know.

5. What is the Optimum Period for Reviewing Material and how do you Track it?

6. What is your Learning Style?

7. How do you Sledgehammer your Worst Words?

Just click on the appropriate link:

Click for the 200 Words a Day! Demonstration Videos and reports....


Kind regards,


Kevin Crocombe
www.200words-a-day.com


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7. 200 Words a Day CD-Rom or e-Book to give away each month
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The w*inner of the monthly draw can select a CD-Rom or e-Book from our range. The lucky person this month has hsi/her name below.

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SPANISH
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200 Words a Day! LEARN SPANISH Course #1 CD-Rom - 1000+ words and common phrases.
200 Words a Day! LEARN Spanish Course #1 e-Book.
- - to accompany the Learn Spanish 200 Words a Day Course #1 CD-Rom or be used on its own. Over 150 pages of color, and with all the color pictures in the Spanish 200 Words a Day! Course #1 CD-Rom. Read it on the bus, train, plane or in the park on your lunch break. Use it as a learning consolidator or the sole source!
200 Words a Day! LEARN SPANISH Course #2 - 1000+ words and common phrases.
UNDERSTANDING POR and PARA - Spanish Grammar Course.
LEARN SPANISH Grammar Course:- - 600+ words and common phrases using POR and PARA. Lots of easy ways to REMEMBER when to use these tricky little words. Word-association cartoon pics will remind you of hundreds of real-life examples. Hundreds of sample sentences, using all the main tenses... so you get to simultaneously practice your verbs in the present, past, future, conditional, subjunctives, you name it. All voiced by native Spanish speakers (of course). A super-consolidation course with new learning, reinforcement of 'already-learned' material and superlearning pics.
UNDERSTANDING SER and ESTAR in Spanish - Grammar Course.
LEARN SPANISH Grammar Course:- - 600+ words and common phrases using SER and ESTAR. Lots of easy ways to REMEMBER when to use these tricky little verbs that cause no end of long-term grief for Spanish learners. Word-association cartoon pics will remind you of hundreds of real-life examples. Hundreds of practice sentences, using all the main verb tenses... so you get to simultaneously practice your ser and estar verbs in the present, past, future, conditional, subjunctives, you name it. All voiced by native Spanish speakers (of course). A super-consolidation course with new learning, reinforcement of 'already-learned' material and superlearning pics. An ESTAR Bunny reminds you of ESTAR concepts and a SER-pent reminds you of SER concepts. Come and meet SER-lock Holmes who will remind you of certain SER concepts.
LEARN 101 SPANISH PROVERBS - 101 Proverbs
All relate to the 200 Words a Day! courses, using the Memory Triggers for the main words, and allow you to put some of the vocab you have learned, into action. The pics in the 101 Spanish Proverbs Course all come from Course #1 or Course #2 Spanish, and if you click on them, they will take you to the ‘Memory Trigger’. A great tool for consolidation of your Spanish learning.
FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE SPANISH COURSE #1 VOLUME 1
Used to train thousands for US State Department diplomats, this is a traditional learning course aimed at providing a solid base in conversational Spanish. Elsewhere on the web for $250-$300 we list it at $47. But grab one at no charge with one of the SUPER BUNDLES currently available. Comes with 12 hours of mp3 audio and 610 pages of pdf manual. Extremely thorough and in-depth.

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FRENCH
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200 Words a Day! LEARN FRENCH Course #1 - 1000+ words and common phrases
200 Words a Day! LEARN FRENCH Course #2 - 1000+ words and common phrases
LEARN 101 FRENCH PROVERBS - 101 Proverbs
All proverbs have been selected to relate to the 200 Words a Day! French courses, using the Memory Triggers for the main words, and allow you to put some of the vocabulary you have learned, into action. The pictures in the 101 French Proverbs Course all come from Course #1 or Course #2 French, and if you click on the picture, you'll be taken to the original word's ‘Memory Trigger’. A great tool for consolidation of your French learning.
FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE FRENCH COURSE #1 VOLUME 1
Used to train thousands for US State Department diplomats, this is a traditional learning course aimed at providing a solid base in conversational French. Elsewhere on the web for $250-$300 we list it at $47. But grab one at no cost with one of the SUPER BUNDLES currently available. Comes with 12 hours of mp3 audio and 455 pages of pdf manual. Extremely thorough and in-depth.

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GERMAN
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200 Words a Day! LEARN GERMAN Course #1 - 1000+ words and common phrases
200 Words a Day! LEARN GERMAN Course #2 - 1000+ words and common phrases

LEARN 101 GERMAN PROVERBS - 101 Proverbs
All these German proverbs have been selected to relate to the 200 Words a Day! German courses, using the Memory Triggers for the main words in those courses, and allow you to put into action some of the vocabulary you have learned. The pictures in the 101 German Proverbs Course all come from Course #1 German, and if you click on the picture, you'll be taken to the original word's ‘Memory Trigger’. A great tool for consolidation of your German learning, and hearing German in action.
FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE GERMAN COURSE #1 VOLUME 1
Used to train thousands for US State Department diplomats, this is a traditional learning course aimed at providing a solid base in conversational German. Elsewhere on the web for $250-$300 we list it at $47. But grab one at no cost - gratis - with one of the SUPER BUNDLES currently available. Comes with 12 hours of mp3 audio and 455 pages of pdf manual. Extremely thorough and in-depth.

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WELSH
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200 Words a Day! LEARN WELSH Course #1 - 1000+ words and common phrases

This month our victorious entrant is lugayaymarie of an address in the e-Universe. If your name is one of those please contact us by email within the next 30 days. Make sure you have whitelisted our email address.

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8. Entering the Monthly CD-Rom or e-Book Draw
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To enter the monthly draw for a CD-Rom, or e-Book of your choice, click on the link Enter the Draw.
You'll need to answer some easy questions (we'll even give you the answers...!).

You can enter every month if you so wish!

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9. Plus some mini courses by email
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Don't forget to also enrol in our 7-part mini-courses. At present we have these available as mini-Spanish lessons, but we will have French 7-part mini-lessons also soon.
Spanish 7-part e-Courses

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10. Frequently Asked Questions and Tutorials
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Check out the Frequently Asked Questions online. It is on the 200words-a-day.com website marked FAQ on the Navbar (Navigation Bar) on the left side of the page.

If you have queries about anything, whether it be about the course or about postage you may find the answers on this page.

Common questions relate to the typing of the different foreign characters, e.g. upside-down question-marks, accents, apostrophes!

Sometimes users are not typing in a little accent or letter here or there, resulting in them dropping points in their tests.

Frequently Asked Questions about 200 Words a Day Accelerated Language Learning

There is also a great deal of help on the Tutorial Pages, which is of particular benefit to course users. If you have ordered the course and are awaiting its arrival in the post you can cover the Tutorials while you wait.

200 Words a Day! Excelerated Language Learning Tutorials - How to Use the Spanish, French, German and Welsh Language Courses

Don't forget there is also a Tutorial on the CD-Rom, which you really should do before starting the course!!

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11. Back Issues of these e-Zines
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All back issues of these ezines are available - gratis, non charge - at the link at the bottom of the newsletter.

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12. Contact Us
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Contact us at any time.

You might find the answers quicker on the FAQ or Tutorial pages as described above, but do feel free to hit us with any questions.

Contact Us

That's it for this newzine.