#learning types

I went to schools that couldn't afford to fire old teachers, so we were given a lot of outdated textbooks and told a lot of information that doesn't stand true today. I've remember times when my teachers taught me things that I later found out were wrong, like my biology teacher telling us people die from burns because the "skin shuts down", or my accounting teacher telling me you can use 30 seconds of copyrighted music legally.

go by your strong suit:

audiobooks and youtube, perfect if you learn sonically. like a challenge? try spanish, it’s thrice as fast as most other languages. spaniards really emphasize the spoken word rather than the written one, they pack in all that information. listening is great fun though and if you learn this way, it’ll be worthwhile. if you go one step beyond, portuguese. super important to listen closely there. as a bonus, it’s way slower.

if you learn by reading, french is the way to go. spoken french swallows half the word so you need to start by knowing the spelling first anyway. also, written french is simply extremely satisfying. german is also important to read to know where we separate words. it’s similar to dutch. listening to dutch is harder than reading it.

if you love to write, pick up russian. it really takes some time until you rewire your brain for cyrillic, a lot of ‘false friend’ letters, that’s why it’s so important to write. but once you get into it, wow you progress faster and faster. another favorite for avid writers, hindi.

haptic learning: you use post-its on items in your room(s). i recommend thai since the letters are essentially beautiful swirly ornaments, it’s a pretty af alphabet. also, written arabic will do you a favor, it’s like you’re painting. you’ll see how much of a kinesthetic-friendly language it is.

visual learners do well with written chinese. most characters are calligraphic depictions of items and people. they understand the principle the fastest while other people struggle big time. your eye goes: i see herbs peeking through soil (艹) garden/field (田) tail (犭)... that’s a cat (猫)! and you picture a tail looking out of a catnip plant in your garden. learn japanese along the way, it incorporates kanji characters, same idea.

verbal learners and extroverts head straight to arabic. yep. arab speakers are the most flattered when you pick up their language and do conversation. pronunciation is key as they have a completely different phonology for e.g. q, h, th, g, gh sounds. another pick for verbal learners, again, portuguese. or any norse language.

if you’re good at maths and logic in general, latin is your friend. the grammar is almost never arbitrary like say german where we do the strangest things with verbs. similarly, written chinese is very regular.

if you pick up languages through music, korean is a no-brainer. it’s all so goddamn catchy. whenever i learn korean vocabulary, i can reference bits and pieces to k-pop right away. the songs also teach you the bit of word contraction that native speakers add. tumblr is full of blogs posting vocabulary lists for every new release of your favorite, it’s glorious.

It’s a learning type thing. I had similar problems until finding out I remember mostly by visuals (spatially), you might be a kinesthetic/aural learner. I.e. unless you hear it or practice it, it won’t stick. You could either listen to videos (see below) or get busy calculating charts on astro.com. 

The sheer amount of planetary stuff going on (aspects, transits, houses...) is hard to stomach by just memorizing. Let the big 3 on the backburner for now, the starter is always deconstructing what the chart is about. 

I learned so much today!! I was so focused!!!

Times tables – wooden wheel – learning type.

This is so much fun for the kids to make and for me personally I wish I had seen this as a child, it would have helped me to learn times tables so much more easier.

We all have different ways of learning, research into which your type is here. (I am Kinsthetic so all those years of listening to lectures was a struggle for me!)

This is a fun tactile way of learning times tables.  I used an old…

1.solitary

2.physical

3.logical