Mandarin Mountain — Tossing Wet Sand onto Dry Land

This is a memorisation technique I fell into and found myself using, and after a while I began consciously doing it in different ways. Back to my beloved analogy of Retention Island… The aim, I am sure you can imagine, is to grow my Mandarin Island as efficiently as possible — to take the vocabulary which is deep under the surrounding waters and take it on a process which leaves it part of the solid ground in the core of my island. Some words are quicker to learn than others, but generally, the learning of a word takes several exposure and controlled uses. We don’t learn one word at a time however, so the image I’m trying to conjure is the island organically gets bigger through lowering the sea levels (the sea of ignorance let’s call it). <a href="https://medium.com/@jeffshenzhen24/mandarin-mountain-tossing-wet-sand-onto-dry-land-1a33a7759e75">Read More</a>