Etymology and language learning

What if you can trick your brain.
This is my own method that is truly innovative.  Imagine if your target language went in your brain like English, your native language.  Here is the problem, when you learn a new word in English it goes into your brain in one part of your brain, and if you learn another word in a foreign language, like Russian, it goes into your brain in another part. Even if you are fluent in Russian and this is your second language, computer PET scans show you are using a different part of your brain and you are processing Russian in a very different way than English, by virtue of the fact you learned it as a second language.
However, the word Vodka is stored in the English part of your brain, even though it’s a Russian word.  So is the word Czar etc.  But what if your brain sees more Russian words as English words. What if you can trick your brain to seeing a word as just another English word.   This is the theory behind Etymology.  It is taking an English word you already know, stored in one part of your brain and trying to see the connection to a foreign word based on Etymology.
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