Mnemonic for Irregular Tú Commands

Students love a good mnemonic. I feel accomplished when a I see a student writing down the mnemonic that I taught her in the margin of her test or quiz. I love it even more when a student either teaches me a new way to help students memorize grammar concepts.
This mnemonic came from a student to help our Spanish 2 class memorize the informal tú
command forms (she learned it from her junior high Spanish teacher). Remember that the majority of the informal positive command forms come from go-go verbs (verbs whose yo forms have a "go" ending in the present tense)--for most of them just drop the -go from the yo form present tense to get to the command form.

Infinitive            Yo form                Tú command           
Venir                    vengo                          ven
Decir                    digo                             di
Salir                      salgo                           sal
Hacer                    hago                            haz
Tener                    tengo                           ten
Ir                          voy                               ve
Poner                    pongo                           pon
Ser                        soy                                 sé

Now for the mnemonic. Say this sentence: Vin Diesel has 10 weapons. I'll break it down for you:
Vin=ven
Die=di
Sel=sal
Has=haz
Ten=ten
Wea=ve (if you say it with a German accents it helps)
Pon= pon
S=sé

(Btw--This is lovely "video" is a little something that I created on Blabberize. Read my post about Blabberize here.)