Lingtastic

Every Spanish word, hooked to an image too ridiculous to forget. A foreign word on its own is just a sound. Lingtastic gives it something to hold on to. Casa sounds like "casserole", so the image is a house that IS a casserole, bubbling, with a spoon in the chimney. Perro sounds like "pear oar", so it's a dog rowing a boat carved from a pear. The sound gets you in; the image is the hook. It's called the keyword method, and it has been tested on Spanish since 1975. The images are loud, rude and absurd on purpose: your brain throws away the sensible and keeps what surprises it. • The background colour is the word's gender: coral for feminine, teal for masculine. You learn la casa and el perro without drilling articles. • No writing inside any image, so the word has to come from you. • The test never shows the image. You recall the word, not recognise a drawing. • You decide when each word…