Drawings: 100 jellyfish

The 100 jellyfish I drew when I stayed at Laurels place in Paris. She loves jellyfish so I covered her entire room with drawings of jellyfish. :)

Drawings: Selection of drawings

Here's a small selection of my drawings. Some are pretty recent, others go back a couple years. Some are finished, others I drew to get the concept out of my head.

Languages: One of the best ways to memorize vocabulary

Because of my recent new interest in dialects and languages I looked for the most efficient ways to learn a new language. Another passion of mine is knowing how the mind works, including the art of memorization. I've read several books about memorization and the systems used for this purpose. It comes very handy to have that knowledge, certainly when applied to the learning of a language, vocabulary to be more precise. When doing my research on how the memory works I came across the website of Memrise. It's a website that uses memorization techniques so you can learn a language more efficiently. I'm a real fan of Memrise, so I occasionally help them by making drawings for them. Why drawings? 

Well, the basic principle used in almost all memorization systems is based on this: We, humans, are incredibly good in memorizing images. Sadly enough we are bad at memorizing words and numbers. The systems convert words and numbers into vivid images, so they become very memorable. It is as simple as that, but extremely powerful. There is more to it, certainly when looking at more complex systems, but this will do for learning languages. I'll write more about all these systems in the future.    

Here is an example of how it works. These are some drawings I made for the Polish course on the website. The website is English, so it's an English-Polish conversion used here.