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15. Learn vocabulary in categories.

You will remember more of the words you learn if you’ll group them into subject categories.

Important categories include parts of the body, colors, numbers, family words, food, weather, basic furniture and house words. Think of the activities where you use Spanish and make your own group of words to learn. When I took my first class, our children made fun of me for using masking tape and a black marker to put the Spanish word on everything in the house.

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53. Take heart from other mediocre linguists.

It's fun to read about other people's struggles with a second language. Fun, and somehow comforting. I just read Monsieur Mediocre, by John von Sothen, an American married to a French woman, living in

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