{"id":411,"date":"2012-03-22T01:35:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:28:10","slug":"they-call-it-mellow-hielo-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/they-call-it-mellow-hielo-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"They Call It Mellow Hielo (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a while back how I had managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a> words using a rather bizarre mnemonic system. A few of the examples had slipped my mind since I stopped using them a while back, but I was looking through an old notebook the other day and came across these ones, which I can assure you came in really handy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ice, Ice Baby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When water freezes it becomes ice, and if you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">Spanish lessons<\/a> you will learn the word \u201chielo\u201d. This is a simple sounding word but unless you play ice hockey or drink a lot of a straight whisky you probably won\u2019t need to use it very much. To avoid it slipping my mind at crucial moments I related it to the English word \u201cyellow\u201d, which has a very similar sound. This, in turn, turned in the old song about \u201cmellow yellow\u201d in my befuddled mind. I then had an image of a block of yellow hielo which was rather mellow.  A long way for a shortcut, as my mum would say.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kold-draft.net\/images\/rollover\/01_3-cubes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a while back how I had managed to learn Spanish words using a rather bizarre mnemonic system. 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