Search & destroy

I’d like to share with all of you something that a good friend of mine suggested to me to use (better: suggested that I use) in order to improve my learning process. Perhaps it isn’t a great breakthrough, but it's a very useful practice. 

It’s the blackboard (or in this case the whiteboard) below in the picture. I’m very proud of this simple artefact, because it helps me to figure out a lot of tiny, and sometimes not too tiny, doubts related with my target language. It’s a very simple gadget tool but at the same time a very efficient one. I think that in certain cases the simpler a device is the better it works. Look at the AK-47! : )
What I do with this is what I call “Search and Destroy”. This merely consists in of jotting down on the blackboard both those both little details and mistakes that I always commit when talking with my companions or when trying to write something.
Then I keep the subjects on there until I completely figure out my doubts. I mean, first of all I search related information about that it. Secondly, I practice the use of those words and expressions in real situations, such as either in this writing or in a real conversation, so that I can check my accuracy with the language through other people’s corrections. Finally, when I’m completely sure that I know how to use those words, I move them to another list on my notebook and remove them from my blackboard.
It looks like a children’s game, but it’s incredible to what extent this system works.
Definitely, simple is better!.

Great system Paul! My corrections are in red and my suggestions to sound more natural are in blue/grey. 

Search & destroy