The Billion Sentence Cheat Sheet

How You Use The Billion Sentence Cheat Sheet

The Billion Sentence Cheat Sheet Rules of Use Our Starting Point
1. Communication is all about getting an idea across First have a look at a common sentence that you may say:

2. Do NOT worry about making mistakes, this helps you learn! “Let’s meet tomorrow at 7pm in front of the restaurant.”

3. Sentences do NOT have to be perfect (perfection comes later) The correct way of saying this in Spanish is:

4. Sentences JUST need to convey a message “Manana quedamos a las siete en frente del restaurant”

If you wanted to learn this sentence perfectly, that means transferring it from your short-
5. Your priority is to start talking, even if it’s not perfect.
term memory to your long-term memory, it would take approximately 2 days.
6. The more you communicate, the faster you learn
Your short-term memory can only handle on average 5 words per day.
7. When you communicate, even at a basic level, you will feel GREAT! Each word in this sentence is “specific” and has complex grammar attached to it

For example: “Quedamos” literally means “we meet”

Simplifying the Sentence Summary
If you want to learn how to say I meet, you meet (singular and plural), they meet, we These words are GENERAL, and they can be reused and reused in countless other
meet, you would need to multiply the time needed to learn everything by 4 in order to sentences.
learn the exact way to say it for each scenario.
When you separate “we” and “meet”, then they can be used again and again.
You need to identify the most efficient way of getting an idea across, and this also means
the most efficient way of learning. At this point of Speed Learning a language, you don’t need to understand conjugation of
verbs, tenses and more complex grammar.
You need to identify where this sentence fits into the 5 components of language. You
should ask these questions when forming any new sentence that you want to simplify. This is important, and you will learn this with time, but your goal RIGHT NOW is to
communicate as quickly as possible.
Here’s your sentence:
Here’s the exact process:
“Let’s meet tomorrow at 7pm in front of the restaurant.”
Complex Identify key Find Combine Simple
fluent words in those the
the words on words sentence
Who’s doing it?: US sentence sentence the table

When are we doing it?: TOMORROW, 7

What are we doing?: MEET
Once you have identified the core words you need for your sentence, then the next step
Where are we doing it?: RESTAURANT
is to find them on the table, and then you just have to put them together! Use the blank
Why are we doing it?: N/A spaces to write down vocabulary that is specific to you and include it.
 How You Learn Vocabulary
A common mistake that many students make is they try and cover too much information when they first start. We can only remember so much, so our brains go into
overload, and we end up not remembering a thing. We get discouraged, and then we stop. There are a few simple techniques you can use to avoid this happening.

Step 1: Only learn a maximum of 5 words per day

When I speak of learning, I mean the action of transferring new information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory.

The quicker and more effectively you do this, the quicker you will learn a language.

I recommend learning 5 words per day from Monday to Friday, with the weekend left for your brain to recover and assimilate what you have learnt.

Step 2: Revise at the right intervals

This is all part and parcel of getting the information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory in an effective way.

It's kind of like cutting a path through a jungle.

An important step to achieving this is to revise new vocabulary at the right intervals.

Once again, the key here is five.

Here's what you can do.

Day 1, Monday: Learn your new five words

Day 2, Tuesday: Revise

Day 4, Thursday: Revise

Day 7, Sunday: Revise

Day 11, Wednesday: Revise

Use the free vocabulary learning planner to do this and enjoy!