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Hello everybody and welcome to the podcast. Today we're going to take a journey

into the palace of the mind. We're going to venture into the deepest parts of your brain, and in the process we're going to clean it up,

brighten it up, sweep out the cobwebs, and make it a much more effective place for learning and remembering English.

So have a glass of water, take a deep breath and get ready for a brain upgrade

because this episode of the podcast is all about memory,

mnemonics and learning English. Recently I've been doing a series of mini- Podcast

episodes called a Phrasalverber Day.

It's quite a popular series which is great.

Lots of people have been listening to it and I'm updating it every day.

You can find the link to the episodes on my webpage. I'm hoping to do about

365 phrasal verbs this year, that's probably one a day, which may be a little bit ambitious, but we'll see.

365 that is a large number of phrases for me to teach but also a large number for you to

remember you might be thinking this is great Luke 365 phrasal verbs all

explained by you with examples and transcripts but how am I going to remember them all?

Well you don't have to remember all of them but you

definitely can. Your brain is an amazing thing. It's capable of

remembering massive amounts of information. It's just a question of how you get the information in there.

English has one of the largest vocabularies of any language in the world, which is quite an overwhelming prospect for those of you who are trying to learn all the words or even just a portion of them like the commonly used ones

but it's not just the words it it's the phrases, the idioms, the spelling, the rules of grammar.

It's a challenge, but you can do it. The question is, how? Well, let's look into it. In this episode we'll be looking at ways to

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