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Have you ever heard about morse code?

The most frustrating when you learn it is that you can't remember the order of the dots & dashes.

Comparing to Japanese letter, I find it harder to remember because at least the Japanese ones resemble some of the images that I can relate to.

For ex:the letter "to" in Hiragana looks like a "tô" ("bowl" in my language) turning upside dow.

But for morse code, there's no image nor special sounds to stimulate my brain.

But then I stumbled upon this website: https://www.morsecode.io/ Surprisingly, after playing around with it for fun for a few minutes, I started to memorize the letters and it was so easy that it scared me.

That's when I thought "Wow, I have to find out the trick behind this.

If I manage to obtain it, learning new words would be a game." If you don't want to check the website, it's okay.

Because I'm going to show you how it works anyway.This game requires you to follow its instruction in this order: 1.

First, It will show you one LETTER and tell you to type it correctly 3 times. (Ex: A,A,A).

After the first one, it'll show you 2 more and you will repeat the same thing.

The the first letters you will learn will be A,B,C 2.

Then, instead of giving you new letters, it'll start giving you COMBINATIONS of the 3 letters you've been showed.

Ex: AB,BA,ABC,BBA,.... and so on. 3.

After you manage to pass all the quiz, it'll give you 3 more letters then the whole process will repeat.

One different thing is the later combinations will include ALL the letters you have learned in previous steps.

So if you can reach D-E-F, there'd be some of the combinations like ADF or BEC.

------ If you care about language learning, you might have figured out the most obvious trick it uses is REPEATING.

But what makes it special?

It's the COMBINATION.

Because just by repeating some words in the SAME order won't be able to stimulate your memory as much.

Moreover, you might have a hard time remember the words you've learned when they are used in different orders/situations even though you've been practicing it for many times.

Let's give an example: Imagine you want to learn 3 WORDS: Chicken - Cook - Dish.

Instead of "just imagining" those words and repeating, you can start by "making some combinations" out of them": 1.

The chicken cooks me some dishes. 2.

I love to cook chicken dishes. 3.

The cook love chicken, but not the dishes. 4.

The best dishes to cook is the chicken dishes.

You might think "you just write the same thing but phrase it in different ways!", that's the point.

By forcing yourself phrasing one content in various ways, you can: (1) Force your brain to work harder and make it more active, (2) Avoid getting confused when the words are used in a different situation.

What do you think?