Anthony Metivier's Magnetic Memory Method Podcast

I’ve received tons of questions by email about how to memorize grammar, including: When to start studying grammar How to use Memory Palaces for grammar rules What about all the complexities of gender, tense and number? These are good questions and present one of the most challenging aspects of learning another language. That said… There’s a time and place for memorizing grammar amongst other activities that will provide many of us much faster gains along the road to fluency. On this page, I’ll share some of my best tips as someone who studied languages as part of earning my PhD at York University. Later, I gave lectures in German as part of my work at the University of Saarland. Sometimes I used memory techniques to help me understand various grammatical principles. Other times, I used different strategies. Sometimes I used no strategies at all. This statement might surprise you. So as we go through today’s tips, please keep this point in mind: When you can memorize individual