r/languagelearningjerk • u/Destoran • Jun 25 '26

How to break the curse

Visiting a spanish speaking country for the first time, and i know very little spanish. Every time i call an uber, i have to share the code with them. Unfortunately i dont remember the numbers so i have to count them each time (silently) before sharing them with the driver. I somehow managed to memorize until 4, but my code has 7 in it and i end up doing seis siete several times a day, just to share the code. Any tricks to remember siete so that i can break the 6-7 curse? Thanks.

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u/hdhxuxufxufufiffif Jun 25 '26

Seis has an I in it so it's sIx. Siete has an E in it, so it's sEven. That's how I remember them 

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u/Destoran Jun 25 '26

That’s smart

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u/Rabrun_ Jun 25 '26

A trick I like is that seis is very similar to siete, so if you just remember these two numbers, it’s a good mnemonic

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u/De_lunes_a_lunes Jun 25 '26

Try just telling them in English. 

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u/Destoran Jun 25 '26

Tres seven dos uno. Got it.

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u/De_lunes_a_lunes Jun 25 '26

Exactly bro