I have been listening to men and women in the language field and there appears some unanimity that language is best learned when learners are enjoying the process of acquiring the target language. Memorability in any area is created by links to exciting, fun, hilarious events rather than ho hum, or difficult experiences.
Memory of words and vocabulary may accelerated greatly by emotional links to words, by links to images, and by daily contact with native speakers - faces, and voices and personalities speaking the words and revealing the culture from which the language has grown. Conventional methods- grammar drills, vocabulary lists, texts with little relationship to what life outside the classroom are ineffective tools for learning.
This kind of thinking and a the cartoonist's creative idea of Black Art Poetry where a newspaper article is read, and all but a few words the poet chooses are blacked out with a black marker, and these words become the poem, led me to choose a random piece of text and write the following poem. A few lines are mine- a break in true 'black art' form.
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