Having an increasingly difficult time remembering things (and SO much to remember), we were very interested to read the Guardian's How I learned a language in 22 hours about Joshua Foer's successfully learning an obscure language using a learning website called Memrise. Memrise bases their language courses on three essential principles, excerpted here from the very long and interesing piece: The first is what's known as elaborative encoding. The more context and meaning you can attach to a piece of information, the likelier it is that you'll be able to fish it out of your memory at some point in the future. And