Foreign Language Learning: Flash Cards and Sticky Notes

Sticky notes (or Post-Its) are useful to learn foreign languages because you can stick them everywhere. I suggest you cover your walls with them if you want to learn your new language fast!

Draw on them, write sentences and cool words on them, and replace them often.

If you haven't made new ones lately, move around the old sticky notes so that your eyes don't get accustomed to seeing them in the same place.

If you like lying on your bed, you could also invest in a poster for your ceiling.

Sticking notes onto your computer is also a good idea if you use the internet a lot.

Use sticky notes to review difficult words, especially the ones that you always fail to remember when you're going over your flash cards.
That being said, sticky notes aren't your only option. Maybe you wouldn't like it if guests asked questions about the sticky notes that are all over the walls of your kitchen!

What do you think about flash cards? They're portable, inexpensive -especially if you make them yourself- and they can be a lot of fun.
Flash cards are really important when you study a language. Do you already have a vocabulary deck?

If you have your deck of flash cards, you will want to learn all the words that it contains by heart. If you don't know how to become fluent by learning vocabulary, it's okay.

Here's how:

1. Take a little stack of flash cards and read the English side of the first card.

2. Think hard and try to translate the word into your native language.

3. If you find the translation quickly enough, put the word in the "known words" box.

4. If you can't remember how to said the word in your target language, put the card in the "unknown words" box.

5. You can use more boxes if it helps you study your language, but keeping it simple is often better. You either know the vocabulary, or you don't!

6. Learn more words everyday, make some flash cards, and go over the words that are in the red box from time to time.

7. Try to use your new vocabulary regularly in e-mails and in conversation so that you memorize it faster.

I wish you all the success in the world in your language endeavors. If you start studying now, you'll soon be fluent!

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