Foreign language words are a constant source of frustration for most learners. Where do you begin? How do you remember things that are completely new and foreign to your ear? And most challenging of all, how do you turn something so auditory—like a word in a foreign language—into a visual marker? Simple: break it down until you can find visualizations. For example: instead of trying to memorize the word caber, or “to fit” in Spanish, we can come up with a visualization of a taxi cab trying to fit a bear inside.
