Fluent Forever (Revised Edition): How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Stab, Stab, Stab -- Beginnings -- Cheaters Occasionally Prosper: The Three Keys to Language Learning -- The Game Plan -- How Long Does Fluency Take? -- Do This Now: The Path Forward -- 2. Upload: Five Principles to End Forgetting -- Principle 1. Make Memories More Memorable -- Principle 2. Maximize Laziness -- Principle 3. Don't Review. Recall. -- Principle 4. Wait, Wait! Don't Tell Me! -- Principle 5. Rewrite the Past -- Timing Is Everything: The End of Forgetting -- Do This Now: Learn to Use a Spaced Repetition System -- 3. Sound Play -- Train Your Ears, Rewire Your Brain -- Train Your Mouth, Get the Girl -- Train Your Eyes, See the Patterns -- Do This Now: Learn Your Language's Sound System -- 4. Word Play and the Symphony of a Word -- Where to Begin: We Don't Talk Much About Apricots -- Games with Words -- The Gender of a Turnip -- Do This Now: Learn Your First 625 Words, Music and All -- 5. Sentence Play -- The Power of Input: Your Language Machine -- Simplify, Simplify: Turning Mountains into Molehills -- Story Time: Making Patterns Memorable -- On Arnold Schwarzenegger and Exploding Dogs: Mnemonics for Grammar -- The Power of Output: Your Custom Language Class -- Do This Now: Learn Your First Sentences -- 6. The Language Game -- Setting Goals: Your Custom Vocabulary -- Words About Words -- Reading for Pleasure and Profit -- Listening Comprehension for Couch Potatoes -- Speech and the Game of Taboo -- Do This Now: Explore Your Language -- 7. Epilogue: The Benefits and Pleasures of Learning a Language -- The Toolbox -- The Gallery: A Guide to the flash Cards That Will Teach You Your Language -- The Art of Flash Cards -- The First Gallery: Do-It-Yourself Pronunciation Trainers -- The Second Gallery: Your First Words -- The Third Gallery: Using and Learning Your First Sentences -- The Fourth Gallery: One Last Set of Vocabulary Cards -- A Glossary of Terms and Tools -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Specific Language Resources -- Appendix 2. Language Difficulty Estimates -- Appendix 3. Spaced Repetition System Resources -- Appendix 4. The international Phonetic Alphabet Decoder -- Appendix 5. Your First 625 Words -- Appendix 6. How to Use This Book with Your Classroom Language Course -- One Last Note (About Technology) -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Marc Notes:
For those who've despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick.

Review Quotes:
"This is a fun way for anyone to discover the secrets of language instruction presented in a conversational, stress-free way--no matter how little time you have." --The Chicago Tribune

"A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages. Fluent Forever won't teach you French, or German, or any other language--but it will teach you how to learn whatever language you do want to learn, and to learn it faster, and more efficiently. If you want a new language to stick, start here." --Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero