My New Year’s Resolution was to learn Georgian again. 4 months in, I’m not making great progress 
I find it very difficult to remember the words which are so different from English:
შერეული this is “mixed” and sounds like /she-re-uli/ how should I remember that?
The process of visualizing a concrete image that captures the meaning or the sound of a word should help remember the next time I need the word.
The seasons in Georgian are: გაზაფხული, ზაფხული, შემოდგომა and ზამთარი
Autumn = შემოდგომა … sounds like /she-mod-go-ma/
…trying to visualise a female mod going to her mother’s…I should have added some falling leaves….
autumn is shemodgoma in Georgian
Tiger in Georgian is
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ვეფხვი
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/vepkhvi/…which sounds nothing like anything I can visualise…but the word in Georgian has 4 trailing limbs which I can imagine are the tiger’s legs…
tiger
Spring is გაზაფხული /gaz-ap-kh-uli/ so I combine a GAZ Volga 24 with an ape and Uli…Uli is a friend who has glasses and is slightly balding…
Georgian vocabulary and doodles to jog memory
That was a lot of effort for just 6 words…anyone have any better ideas?
What makes Georgian such a difficult language for foreigners?
I know what shrexvedramde means now! 😀
it is a difficult language…
see you 🙂
I don’t think you can ever learn a new language, especially one with a completely different alphabet, by trying to anglicize it in any way. And from personal experience you’re better off learning either the written or the spoken first, not both at once.
You could well be right, I’m just trying to find a means of learning the language and remembering the words, which sound so different to English.