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The Linkword Method

Memory and recall are the keys to learning a language rapidly

About 80% of learning a new language is pure memorization. Think about that; if you had a photographic memory and could instantly recall vocabulary and grammar, you could learn to speak a new language in a week's time. Sound impossible? Well, watch a clip from a documentary on a gifted savant named Daniel Tammet below. Daniel has PERFECT MEMORY RECALL. When he sees something once, it is "burned" into his memory forever instantly. Tammet holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes! So, how fast can a person with PEREFCT MEMORY learn to converse in a new and extremely difficult language? Not knowing a single word of the language, Daniel was challenged to learn to converse on live TV in the Icelandic language in just 7 days of study for a documentary called "Brainman".

Watch a man with a PERFECT MEMORY learn to speak Icelandic in 7 days below:

So, what does Daniel Tammet's learning Icelandic in 7 days have to do with you trying to learn your Spanish or French quickly? The answer is - EVERYTHING.

You may say, "but, i dont have a perfect memory.. i'm no savant!"...

That's true. Only a handful of people in the world have a "perfect" memory as does Daniel (and could thus learn one of the world's most difficult languages in a week), but our Linkword course is designed to give you the next best thing to a "perfect" memory for vocabulary learning - the ability to lock new words in your memory in just 10 seconds each, then recall nearly 90% of them when tested!

Whereas, Daniel can look at a new vocabulary word and remember it INSTANTLY forever, our Linkword course can lock a new word in your mind in just 10 seconds. Then, you can continue learning word after word with our method without ever having your brain feel "full".Try it for yourself; learn 15 Swedish words in less than 5 minutes here. Notice on the Swedish tests, you retained almost ALL the Swedish words! Did your brain feel "full" after learning 15 words?? No, it didn't !! We could have continued teaching you hundreds of Swedish words now and you would have learned them all just as easily, and quickly - and retained almost all of them nearly effortlessly without any review.

How fast can you learn a language with a "Linkword Enhanced" memory?

So, if a man with a perfect memory (Daniel Tammet) can learn to converse in perhaps the world's most difficult language (Icelandic) in just 7 days, how long would it take you with a "Linkword enhanced" memory to learn Spanish, Italian or Greek? The answer depends on how much time per day you can invest, but in general, our speed-learning Linkword courses can teach you:

• to "get by" in a new language (with 200 - 300 essential nouns locked in your mind) via one of our downloadable survival courses in just 2 or 3 hours.
• to "communicate" in a new language (equipped with about 400 important vocabulary words and basic grammar) via our Level 1 courses in about a week
• to "converse" in a new language (armed with more than 1400 vocabulary words and intermediate grammar) via one of our Full Courses in about 2 months

Again, please don't take our word for it; we urge you to read an independent review of our courses in the Christian Science Monitor that follows one of their reporters learning Spanish in a weekend with our method (her friend learned Mandarin also in a weekend with our course!) .. you can read the whole story here.

Or, are you one who prefers to read a scientific study before embracing a revolutionary idea? Well, here are 12 scientific studies on our method (called the 'keyword method' in academia), conducted since 1974 that compare our method to traditional learning by rote repetition and/or context. In fact, you can even view a 216 page thesis written in 2004 by Dr. Joern Hauptmann on the effectiveness of our method on vocabulary retention and motivation compared to other "traditional" learning strategies here.

The Linkword Method is based on the principle that the human mind much more easily remembers data attached to spatial, personal, or otherwise meaningful information than that occurring in meaningless sequences or basic repetition.

The Linkword method works like this:

You link an English word to another English word that sounds like the foreign word to be remembered. For example: