Learning Arabic through a Dreamscape

Pierre Herigone, a brilliant French Mathematician from the 1600s, discovered that he could memorize strings of abstract numbers like the number for pie (3.1415927...) much more quickly and easily if he could translate what he needed to learn into pictures.  By first associating numbers to consonants, and then by combining those consonants into words that evoked pictures, Pierre was able to remember the numbers in pie as a meteor tail that was pink (3=m, 1=t, 4=r, etc.).  Centuries later, in the early 1980s, Steve Jobs discovered that if he could teach Apple computers to "think like people" instead of trying to teach people to learn computer-speak in DOS code that computers would become much easier to use and more popular.  Hence the invention of desktop icons.  Our minds are immensely powerful tools--with them we can learn and comprehend massive amounts of complex information rapidly--but only if we use them the way they were designed.  Our minds need sensory environments to interact with--tastes, smells, tactile sensations, sounds, and most importantly of all, pictures.  Therefor when we are trying to learn abstract codes, we need to infuse those codes with imaginative and sensory rich associations if we want to master those codes more effortlessly and effectively.  This is especially true of learning foreign languages.

For this reason, I invite those of you who are learning Arabic as native English speakers to enter into an imaginary mental dream scape with me were everything we hear and picture will be rich in symbolic meaning in order to make the abstract code of the Arabic language sensible to our sensory based intellects.  Wouldn't it be nice if you could just upload Arabic into your brain like uploading a file into your computer rather than struggling away at it for weeks and months on end, still not even fully mastering the alphabet?  What if you can?  At first you'll have to get used to using the systems we can use to accelerate our ability to remember things--just like you'd have to install and get use to using new software on a computer first before you could actually upload and utilize files that run on that software--but it's totally worth it.  With these systems it is truly possible to learn the whole Arabic Alphabet in a day or two.  And then we can move on to learning complex grammar structures and lots of vocabulary.  Give it a try and tell me how it goes for you.  If you need "patches" to run the program faster in your neural network, we can generate those patches for you.  The key though is just to get started.  Let the fun begin!

Bon voyage into the Dream scape!  I'll see you there.

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