Mind mapping in learning a language

One of the things I do while teaching English in my classes is after we study an idea in depth, I make my students create a mind map.  The mind maps must be colorful and animated. By using non traditional techniques in learning a language I think  it makes it not only more fun, but easier to learn.  So if you want to try to learn a language, try making a mind map.  Only when making this map, do one idea at a time with not too broad a focus, such as the topic ‘articles in English’, that is “a, an or the”.

Eventually your goal will be to create a mind map the entire  language.  But again start with a narrow focus. Also I only create a mind map  after I know the idea I am mapping pretty well in my head, then the map crystallizes it in my  brain.  I learn Polish and other Slavic languages, not English of course.  However, with some of the grammar errors I make on my blog, I think some of you  question which language I really learn and which language I teach.

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