Finally, after some delay (due to my laziness in writing!) I’m proud to present the results and final thoughts concerning my language mission. If you haven’t been following my struggles, you can find all the details below. The purpose of the mission   My mission had a dual purpose. First of all, I wanted to demonstrate that it is perfectly The post How To Learn Communicative Czech In 1 month – Results Of My Czech Mission appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

If you had asked me a few months ago how I feel about Facebook, I would have said that it’s probably the biggest time-eater in the world. However, within the last few weeks, I changed my mind quite drastically. Believe it or not, but know I think it’s one of the best language learning tools in the world. Make yourself comfortable The post How To Turn FaceBook Into The Language Learning Machine appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

Learning vocabulary is the most important and time-consuming part of language learning. If you suck at it, you might be wasting dozens of hours each month due to the ineffective learning strategy. Better make sure that your vocabulary learning strategy is not based on … (drum roll) Passive Rehearsal Through Repetition   The typical vocabulary learning routine goes more or less The post The Most Common Mistake In Vocabulary Learning appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

  I have the greatest pleasure to introduce my friend and ex-student – Mariusz who I had the honor to teach (Swedish) not so long ago. Mariusz started his journey with Swedish in March and thanks to the super effective mix of grit, right methods and mnemonics got to (almost) B2 level at Swedish. The level was assessed by one The post How To Memorize Grammatical Gender With Use of Mnemonics appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

I guess that I didn’t take this one, crucial thing into consideration when I published my article about fun ways to read. Some people have the short attention span or even add ADD. And it’s quite difficult to read anything with such a condition. Or to do anything for that matter. You know how it goes – halfway through an article The post How To Get Your Reading Practice Done While Increasing Your General Knowledge appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

Setting big goals in language learning doesn’t sound like a lot of fun, right? Especially learning, say, over 85o words per day! After all, common sense tells you to do things step by step. Set small goals which are perfectly achievable. And learn systematically. And I agree, at least at the beginning of the learning process. But in past two years, I have begun appreciating tasks The post Setting Big Goals In Language Learning: 5 Reasons Why You Should Try To Take On Crazy Learning Tasks appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

What is one of the most effective ways to learn a language (or anything for that matter)? Teach somebody! I tend to write a lot about concentrating on hard and intensive work in learning. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t have some fun from time to time! You can’t deny that every language has some funny or quirky words. The post 3 Fun Ways To Learn a Language by Teaching Others appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

I’m sure that you have some songs that make you cry. Now you can make others cry as well while you sing in your target language! Alright, I admit – that sounded like a bad advertisement! Anyway, I highly recommend that you check LyricsTranslate.com. What is this magical website?   The website contains over 280k translations of all kinds of songs. The translations The post 1 Great Tip On How To Find Lyrics In Your Target Language Of Almost Any Song appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

How often does it happen to you? You start reading some article or book and within seconds you feel overwhelmed with vocabulary. Which words should you learn? ALL of them? That's a little daunting prospect, isn't it? But good news everybody! You can create your own frequency list out of any text you want, and you can do it for free! But first things first. The post How To Create Your Own Frequency List From any Text In Less Than 1 Minute appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more

 t's funny, isn't it? All your life we've been told that the only place where talking to yourself can get you is a padded cell. And yet, somehow it landed me a job in one of the top corporations at this side of Milky Way. You might ask - so what's so special about this story? Well, I learned Swedish in order to get The post Learn by Talking to Yourself, Master a Language, and Get a Job as a Result! appeared first on The Universe Of Memory ..read more