A self-styled linguistic expert whose techniques for learning languages have been featured on lifehacker.com explores the science behind learning and memory and describes how to unleash one's inner grammar genius and “lock in” knowledge to learn new words in any language. Original.
Presents a series of techniques for acquiring a foreign language, including news ways of training the tongue for pronunciation, use of visual imagery for connecting sounds and spelling, and spaced-repetition methods for learning new vocabulary.