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Pictorial Dictionaries Tower of Babel

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Picture Dictionaries:

Spanish

German


	Human beings should understand each other

an analogy:

if you want to build a house you need
the building material and the building plan


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	to learn a language you need


	the vocabulary and the grammar


	The building materials can be bought but the vocabulary has to be learned. We can help..

The key question: How does our brain store new concepts?

It builds new neural conexions around a new concept (e.g: a new word in an another language) relating it to concepts and experiences, new or already present, that form a reference net.

The consequence: How can we memorize better?

With more neural conexions you can remember better


	The vocabulary in a foreign language has to be learned - and this is a good reason to compare methods


	inefficient method


	efficient method

Relating sound and picture to the new concept- building a reference net for the memory. This is the method used in our pictorial dictionaries.

Difficult memorization of foreign words based only on their translation.

Compare

1) la oreja
2) la boca
3) la nariz
4) la frente
5) el cuello

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