Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

by Gabriel Wyner

Mnemonic

types of connections: structure, sound, concept, and personal connection. These are the four levels of processing.

Do you like PIZZA?––can simultaneously activate all four levels of processing.

Your brain uses levels of processing to judge which input is important and which should be thrown out.

brain consistently works at the shallowest level of processing needed to get the job done.

We recall images much better than words, because we automatically think conceptually when we see an image.

You will remember a concept with a personal connection 50 percent more easily than a concept without one,

I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? —Ronald Reagan

In school we learn things then take the test, In everyday life we take the test then we learn things. —Admon Israel

Our emotions are reflexive creatures.

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