{"id":193,"date":"2010-12-30T12:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T12:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2013-08-19T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:15:05","slug":"learn-spanish-with-images-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/learn-spanish-with-images-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Spanish with Images, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First up is mentira. This is the word for a lie, as in an untruth, although here in South America it is also used to admit to a little joke, sort of like \u2018only kidding\u2019. Anyway, I could never remember this word and alternated between \u2018mintero\u2019, \u2018mentora\u2019 and several other variations. One day on a long bus journey I had a sudden and unexpected thought; it sounds like \u2018mint era\u2019 in English. So now I could picture the Mint Age, which in my addled mind involves people living in igloos made out of Fox\u2019s glacier mints. To complete the image I had a well known politician (can you guess who?) pop his or her head out of one of the igloos spouting untruths. It sounds utterly ludicrous but since that day I have never once got the word wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by my success I leapt on another troublesome word \u2013 tenedor. This means fork and so I imagined ten people at the door of the castle of Frankenstein, all carrying pitchforks. Amazingly it worked and thanks to my new, enhanced vocabulary I no longer had to eat every meal using a spoon.<br \/>\nThese examples probably won\u2019t work for you, as I think the secret is to come up with something that sticks in your own mind for some reason. There is obviously also a limit to the number of these things you can store in your head at any one time. 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