Learning Foreign Language Words Blog on Goodreads

This is the Table of Contents of my Learning Foreign Language Words blog on Goodreads. The blog contains my observations and thoughts I have while working, as a "harmless drudge", on my books of "Learning Foreign Language Words" of Spanish, French and Italian.

Apr 27, 2024 Languages popular among polyglot language learners
Jan 20, 2024 Try interpreting new words literally first
Jul 23, 2023 Words meaning "four", "fourth", "square" etc.
Jul 22, 2023 Semantic distances among languages
Jul 22, 2023 Spanish presa, preso, prisa
Mar 17, 2023 Spanish tarea and English mattress
Feb 07, 2023 action, acción, azione, "share of stock"
Jan 23, 2023 Latin sentire ("to feel") diverges in Romance languages
Dec 07, 2022 Word for "people" in Romance languages can be singular
Oct 22, 2022 French 'orphelin', Spanish 'huérfano', or Italian 'orfano'
Sep 20, 2022 Spanish 'terco' ("stubborn")
Jun 30, 2022 Two types of word association
Apr 06, 2022 Initial letters catch more attention for a mnemonic
Jan 17, 2022 guinea pig
Nov 12, 2021 How much can a mnemonic help?
Oct 17, 2021 "menos de" and "moins de"
Oct 04, 2021 How to remember 'melatonin'
Jul 29, 2021 Spanish phrase: menos mal que
Jul 21, 2021 Google Ngram
May 26, 2021 Frequencies of days of week in French and Spanish
Apr 13, 2021 Adding examples to my books
Feb 27, 2021 Dual-gender French (and Spanish) noun
Jan 02, 2021 Frequency of various conjugated forms: persons and numbers
Nov 08, 2020 Example headwords in "Learning French/Spanish Words" that mention heads of state
Sep 25, 2020 Michel de Montaigne and essai, ensayo, saggio
Sep 21, 2020 Spanish mozo and Moses
Aug 26, 2020 My daily study
Jul 05, 2020 Google Translate shows word frequency
Jun 23, 2020 Word frequency
May 27, 2020 "La Covid" vs. "Le Covid"
Apr 25, 2020 politics, politician, policy
Apr 12, 2020 Spanish sin embargo and non obstante
Mar 29, 2020 How to pronounce French prefixes in- and im-
Mar 19, 2020 How to remember Spanish words al*
Mar 15, 2020 falta de educación = bad manners
Mar 12, 2020 compa* and campa*
Feb 29, 2020 % menores a los de
Feb 25, 2020 Praising etimologias.dechile.net
Feb 16, 2020 Remember conjugations by drills
Feb 16, 2020 Politically correctly
Feb 16, 2020 Myetymology.com and its replacement
Feb 16, 2020 Influence of books on general mnemonics

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