Chapter 2
Memory is the greatest memory when it comes to learning a new language, and it is built to do that with your brain. Unknown sounding words built with foreign characters that might resemble our alphabet to characters that look more artistic than words can be challenging when learning a new language. Gabriel does suggest several means to remembering.
One, visual cues can help you remember words. If you just learn a word, and nothing else then it has no meaning, but apply a picture to that word and it might be memorable. Neko (猫), or cat in Japanese, was an easy word to remember when watching animes. I like cats, and I liked Japanese animation TV shows, and the word in some ways sounded cute (kawaii かわいい), so it was easy for me to recall the word.
Sadly, the second method is to recall instead of review, and I do not recall in detail that section of the book, or a little hard for me to describe. Ironic. Best way for me to describe this method is to test yourself against new words instead of just studying which I do agree. Flash cards is a good way for someone to test themselves.
One of the systems that was brought up, briefly, from the last book report was the Spaced repetition learning systems, or SRS. It is a system, involving in some way flash cards either digital or physical, that you progressively remember the context of each card in different phases of time.
I guess the best way to describe this system is if you remember a word then you do not need to worry about the word the next day. If you recall the word again the next day then you do not add in the stack of cards to learn for a couple of days. Each time you do remember the time periods increase until you forget it or it’s ingrained into your long term memory.
There are open source software available called Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/), but there is one system that was mentioned in the book for physical cards, but I am unable to remember the name as it was hard to pronounced and I was unable to find it at the author’s website which happened to be https://blog.fluent-forever.com.
Chapter 3
Both the author, and my wife do suggest to learn pronunciation, but I do have to wonder how I would able to do the SRS during my time learning and pronouncing the Chinese pinyin system. Six vowels with four different tones each, and the best way for me to get the sounds right is my wife, 
I did find myself at times when I am trying to pronounce a word the right way with my wife, she kept insisting that I was saying it wrong. Stubborn as I was, I kept refusing to believe her, and that I was saying it right. Apparently, that is normal, and it's something that our ears were trained to hear a certain language when we were young. If you kept saying “Rock rock rock rock rock lock rock rock”, to a Japanese speaker, they might not noticed the sneaky lock that I snuck into that phrase. Once I learned that from the book; I need to train my ears to pick up the accents.
Not only would I need to train my ears, but my mouth motions. Honestly, some of my practice sessions with my wife, I kept suggesting that I record those sessions so that I can refer back to those lessons, but share them with you all on D.Tube. Might be educational, and some of you may get a laugh out from a polar bear trying to speak Mandarin. In all seriousness, the way you have to structure your mouth will matter when trying to get the right sounds to come out of your mouths. I recall struggling with saying a certain word, but it sounds like “ts” like pretzel or cats, but this is at the beginning of the word. It still throws me off at the time of this post.
I realized after reading this chapter about pronunciation that I am on the right track with learning a language. Sadly, I did not took my wife too seriously with this part, and I wanted to speak words, but I did not realized how it mattered so much to say the words right with the accent. Most of the resources that I had when it came to languages, it was just rehearsing words, and that was it, so I assume that is how you do it. I even tried Rosetta Stone, and it was just flashcards with images; even though, it is helpful to have something visual for you to stimulate your brain to remember with visuals, but I may had been going with languages all wrong.
Chapter 4
Speaking of words, the next chapter will go towards words. At this point with my language training, it may take me some time to get far enough that I will need to start learning Chinese words along with the associated kanji, but I am still going to listen through this book.
Gabriel did brought up word frequency meaning how often a word is used in a language. One should try to learn words that they are going to use often than others. Granted, one of the audio tracks that I had to learn Chinese words were ways to basically communicate, and commute like nĭ hăo (你好) [Hello or You Good literal] or huǒ chē (火车) [Train or Fire Car literal] as an example. Helpful if you want to get around China, but when it came to basic conversation; I guess I might been able to talk to my mother-in-law about vehicles and hotels at best in an elementary school level.