A Language Learning Tale

Link on Spotify: Can I Have Some Glue, Please? Link on YouTube: Can I Have Some Glue, Please?   Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Can I Have Some Glue, Please? Or, How Do I Get vocabulary to Stick in My Brain? Ah, the age-old problem of learning vocabulary. A thorny problem, indeed. Let us time travel again, back to the halcyon days … erm, the really stressful days of school and learning vocab. Let’s paint a little picture. Step 1: Go to language lesson. Step 2: Listen to teacher and diligently write down all the new vocabulary introduced in said lesson. Step 3: Do homework, trying to learn the list of vocabulary you wrote down, by heart, by staring at it. Step 4 - Version 1: Go to next language lesson. Keep your head down so you don’t get picked by the teacher. You all g...