What has the World Trade Center attacks got to do with remembering a new word…?
To remember a new free Spanish word of the day requires one to hook, or link that word with a vivid, mental image that will trigger the memory of the word. Or it may trigger something that gives you a key piece of the jigsaw to unravelling and remembering that word. Many tens of thousands of people in the world will remember exactly what they were doing when they heard the shocking news that Princess Diana had died. Or when they heard of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Likewise many Americans will remember exactly what they were doing when it was announced that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. These events were so shocking that one’s activity at the time becomes indelibly printed in the memory. If we can learn a new word or phrase at times like these they would be with us forever. However, we can achieve the same result, simply by using that incredible piece of computer-machinery, the human brain. We do this by conjuring up and visualizing amazing events in ou
