Tower of Babelfish
The Blog

Tips, tutorials and resources to aid you on your path towards fluency.

  • Recent Posts

  • Subscribe to Site Updates

  • June 2013
    M T W T F S S
    « May   Jul »
     12
    3456789
    10111213141516
    17181920212223
    24252627282930
  • Archives

  • Meta

  • Tags

  • Daily Archives: June 13, 2013

    Pictures of Pronouns…and how to learn them

    You!
    You!

    “You!”

    In my list of basic words to learn, I suggest learning subject pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) using pictures. Instead of “‘Ich’ is the German word for ‘I,’” I suggest memorizing “‘Ich’ is the German word for [Guy pointing to himself].”

    But this may seem like a trivial point. After all, it’s only a small handful of words, and what’s the harm in memorizing just a few translations?

    Continue reading