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Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall by pessimizer on Monday August 08, 2022 @07:03PM (#32392210)
There's a guy who did a book like this: http://yong321.freeshell.org/lsw/

preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Learning_Spanish_Words_...

It's just a bunch of vocabulary paired with etymology notes and observations/sounds-likes to make the vocabulary memorable.

Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall by _dain_ on Monday August 08, 2022 @07:43PM (#32392467)
Oooh, this looks lovely, thank you for showing me this.

EDIT, hm he seems to be missing some obvious cognates, e.g.

>propio, own (adj.); proper (cognate). Proper in modern English no longer has the meaning "own", but this word in Spanish, propio, still retains it. if this knowledge is too uninteresting, use a mnemonic such as "A truly proper lady behaves in her own natural style."

wtf? What about just the English word "property" instead of this silly lady business?

Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall by Apfel on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @10:39AM (#32398634)
There's something to be said for using strange or even ridiculous mnemonics as a memory aid.

I'd often come up with little stories to teach myself some of the more complex Chinese characters when I was learning quite intensively and found I never struggled to remember those words after doing so.