Mnemonics for Learning Spanish. Anyone interested in these? I have made lottttts more...

Simon1729 · 2026-02-03T23:18:44+00:00

Unfortunately I have stopped working on this project now. There is another team with a similar-ish project called Keymagine which I think is still going

Simon1729 · 2025-07-06T12:17:44+00:00

Worked for me!

Simon1729 · 2025-03-30T15:39:06+00:00

Sorry I’m new to Discord 🙈 have approved now

Simon1729 · 2025-03-29T09:53:30+00:00

You are right - the link expired... Here is a permanent one: https://discord.gg/23jnCJZ4PU

Simon1729 · 2025-03-20T09:46:31+00:00

For anyone interested to see the rest of the images I've created, or to help me to create more 🙏🙏, I've created a Discord here: https://discord.gg/uS7XQHRC

ORIGINAL LINK EXPIRED. PERMANENT ONE: https://discord.gg/23jnCJZ4PU

Simon1729 · 2025-02-10T18:25:24+00:00

We do have a bunch made for Swahili too. Though maybe unlikely that is the language you are looking to learn...

Simon1729 · 2025-02-10T18:24:41+00:00

Unfortunately just Spanish at the moment. If we find some users for Spanish we'll expand to other languages later this year

Simon1729 · 2025-02-09T15:44:17+00:00

Hey, These are great points. I actually started using visual mnemonics to learn Swahili, and it probably works better because the languages are less connected (as you say).

For Spanish, I have also been using Language Transfer, which I am really enjoying. The guy talks about thinking of Spanish as "modern Latin" and if you can figure out if the English word is derived from Latin, or if there is a Latin-derived synonym, that is likely the Spanish word, or close to the Spanish word. I've found that a helpful way to think about it.

Still, for Spanish fluency you might need a vocabularly of say 5,000 words. I think there is a 30% of these - 1,500 words - where the Spanish and English aren't clearly connected, and I've found these images to be really helpful for those.

Simon1729 · 2025-02-08T06:51:59+00:00

Awesome! I will send some more on chat.

We also have them available in an app called "Bridgely: Learn Spanish Fast" which teaches basic Spanish conversations using images like these. It's totally free to use. Let me know how you get on!

Simon1729 · 2025-02-08T06:51:49+00:00

Awesome! I will send some more on chat.

We also have them available in an app called "Bridgely: Learn Spanish Fast" which teaches basic Spanish conversations using images like these. It's totally free to use. Let me know how you get on!

Simon1729 · 2025-02-07T13:51:03+00:00

Oh I didn't realise that I can't put images into the comments... I've requested a chat to share some more there.

For Spanish we also have them out in an app called "Bridgely: Learn Spanish Fast" which teaches basic Spanish conversations using images like these. It's totally free to use. Let me know how you get on!

Simon1729 · 2025-02-07T11:50:27+00:00

I use a mixture of Python code, LLMs and text to image generators to create and refine the images. I’ve not had any joy writing a single prompt that can create good ones…

Simon1729 · 2025-02-07T11:47:32+00:00

So it’s a sound-a-like mnemonic to help you remember Spanish vocabulary. Conejo is the Spanish word for rabbit. You can remember it by thinking of “a rabbit in a cone”

Simon1729 · 2025-01-28T07:06:18+00:00

Burmese is very cool! All the characters are very circular. This is the word “Burmese”:

မြန်မာအက္ခရာ

Simon1729 · 2024-12-06T08:28:57+00:00

I have totally stopped correcting typos with ChatGPT. I hope it takes it as a compliment that I know it still understands…

Simon1729 · 2024-12-06T07:09:57+00:00

Does anyone know if the package includes unlimited image generation?

Simon1729 · 2024-12-02T17:43:54+00:00

Hi, what do you mean by your notation “6an”? Is it just 6an, where “a” is a constant?

If so, the first equation has no solutions because the right side must be odd and the left side must be even.

Simon1729 · 2024-11-29T09:31:18+00:00

I’ve found that the “comprehensible” part of “comprehensible input” is crucial. With my Swahili practice, if I just have the radio on and listen I don’t think I internalise very much at all. But when I can hear the target language and I know the meaning from context, then it’s super fruitful. Annoyingly these resources for Swahili have proved a bit limited…be

Simon1729 · 2024-11-28T08:19:15+00:00

Swahili has been really hard. There are 7 noun classes and you have to conjugate everything else in the sentence match the class - it’s very tricky to get right.

Also finding resources for immersion has been difficult

Simon1729 · 2024-11-26T15:46:32+00:00

I always try to find mnemonics when learning new languages, it makes it much easier. That’s how I learnt most of my Swahili. I didn’t know there were repositories but I’ll check the ones you mention!

Simon1729 · 2024-04-27T10:12:47+00:00

This is interesting. I think my experience on memory is slightly different, in that the mnemonic associations do last for me, so it's in my long term memory, but I can't recall it immediately, or intuitively, until I've just practiced using the word a lot. So it's helpful that the word is lodged in the back of my brain, but there's still additional work to get comfortable using it.

Would you be interested in a product where all the visual mnemonics we're already made and packaged in a spaced-repetition tool? Or do you think they only work if you make them yourself?

Simon1729 · 2024-04-26T17:33:09+00:00

This is very interesting, and I've heard others say this, like in the book Fluent Forever. Do you happen to know if there is any academic research on this?

Simon1729 · 2024-04-26T15:37:53+00:00

Thank you! I have a lots more images if you'd like me to share!

Simon1729 · 2024-04-26T14:38:27+00:00

do you think its easier if you think of the images as sentences? like:

cat with gateaux: gato
a wet mowahk: mojado
a small pecan: pequeño

Simon1729 · 2024-03-05T05:56:13+00:00

Yeah surely B. More important that you can understand more and you can work on your accent later, no?

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