So in my Latin class, I read about something/ that Cicero described,/ called, "Method of Loci."// technically locorum.// But/ it's a technique in which you take mnemonics.// So, let's say you want to learn/ 10 vocab words on a list./ You take each of those words/ and instead of memorizing them in blocks,/ you integrate them into your spatial memory.// So, here's what I mean.// This spot right here is Union Square.// It's a place I go every day.// If I close my eyes,/ I can imagine it/ very, very vividly.// So,/ I imagine myself walking down Union Square,/ and in each spot in my mind that has resonance,/ I associate it with a vocab word.// I'll show you right now. // I'm walking down Park Avenue,/ and in Japanese "to walk" is/ "iku”.// I go a little bit further,/ turn right,/ sit on the steps where I can/ "Suwaru".// Directly north of there is a statue George Washington/ which I used to think was a fountain,/ so that's "nomu",/ "to drink".// Right next to that,/ there's a tree/ that you can "Kiru",/ "cut".// If you want to go north for Barnes and Noble,/ you can "Yomu",/ "to read".// Or if I'm hungry and I want to go to my favorite Falafel place,/ I can go one block west of there,/ so I can "Taberu",/ "to eat"//. I missed one?// Alright,/ so 8 out of 10!// Not bad!// So, I found that most of the time/ by experimenting with methods like these,/ it made language learning a much more interactive experience.// It made it something that I can remember/ much better and I had a lot of fun with.// Maybe that's not for you.//Here's another one.// So, a lot of people often ask me,// “If you're studying so many languages at the same time,/ "how do you not confuse them?"// Or how do you learn so many vocab words?”// In Spanish/ I learn a word for table and the word for book goes out the other ear.// What I do is I embrace those.// So for example,/ take these three words in Indonesian.// These were actually among the first 50 words that I learned.// "Kepala", "Kabar", "Kantor".// Lexically/ they're unrelated to each other.// "Kepala" is a head./ "Kabar" is news./ "Kantor" is an office.// But they all sound similar/ "K", "A". Right?// So what I would do, is/ I would memorize vocab in batches of sounds/ that were similar.// So if I hear the word "Kepala" in Indonesian,/ I automatically think the words "Kebar" and "Kentor"./ Same in Arabic,/ "Iktissad", "Istiklal", "Sokot".// These three words are unrelated.// One is economy,/ one is independence, / one is downfall.// But if I hear one,/ it triggers/... it triggers the rest.// Same thing in Hebrew/. Even that those are return,/ remember/ and to shine.// Or in Farsi/ in which they are related.// So for me/ if I hear the word "Pedar",/ which means father,/ I automatically think in the words,/ "Madar", "Barodar", "Dokhtar".// Mother, / brother, / daughter. // So, again/ this is one method,/ and/ I'm not saying this will make you fluent in a language,/ but it has been one of my ways of overcoming those obstacles.//