My Methods for Studying Languages My Methods for Studying Languages I've tried many things in my quest for a quick, easy way to cram lots of vocabulary and grammar into my head. Of course, there is no quick, easy way, but there are ways which are quicker and easier than others. This has probably been the most successful of my methods, but it doesn't work equally well for all languages.
Examples are the genders of French or German nouns, or the aspect of Russian verbs.
You then put these flip-books on strings and hang them in the appropriate parts of your living quarters. Whenever you enter that area, pick up at least one of the flip-books and take 30 seconds or so to check through it, quizzing yourself. Don't worry if you don't remember something, make it a very passive, low-pressure type of quiz. In this way you gradually associate particular cards with particular places in the house, and so you end up automatically memorizing the cards' categories. In my case, I made nearly 1000 Chinese character cards.