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HOW TO USE A MEMORY PALACE TO BOOST YOUR VOCABULARY (PRACTICAL TIPS …
HOW TO USE A MEMORY PALACE TO BOOST YOUR VOCABULARY
THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR MNEMONICS
THE RETENTION RATE of students NOT using MNEMONICS = 47 %
USING MNEMONICS = 82 % RETENTION RATE
THE ROTE LEARNING IS INEFFECTIVE
DON'T NECESSARY APPLY TO LANGS THAT STEM FROM ENGLISH
WHY DO PEOPLE NOT USE MNEMONICS
?
The books ADVOCATING this method of language learning are filled with examples that come from the autor's imagination rather than teaching the readers to create their own
AN INSIGHT INTO HISTORY OF THE 1ST MEMORY PALACE
The Greek poet attended a banquet to give a speech.Someone called him outside and at that moment the roof CAVED IN and crushed everyone
Because the poet used a technique to hold the names of all the ATTENDEES and where they had been sitting, he was able to IDENTIFY ALL THE BODIES
His achievement helped the BEREAVED FAMILIES properly bury theirdead
A technique using MEMORY PALACE to store and retrieve information was born
WHAT IS a MEMORY PALACE ?
AN IMAGINARY CONSTRUCT IN YOUR MIND BASED ON A REAL LOCATION
WITHIN YOUR
MEMORY PALACE
,
STATIONS
ARE LOCATIONS like a bedroom, and the space between them is called
A JOURNEY
AS YOU BUILD YOUR
MEMORY PALACE
, YOU WILL LEAVE WORDS AND PHRASES AT THESE STATIONS AND THEN
PICK THEM UP
LATER ON WHEN YOU TAKE A
JOURNEY
THROUGH YOUR PALACE
DO NOT ROB YOURSELF WITH THIS POWERFUL LANGUAGE LEARNING DEVOCE BY SAYING YOU'RE NOT A VISUAL PERSON : :warning:
EACH STATION IN A MEMORY PALACE HAS A NUMBER for creating a TOP-DOWN list of stations
HOW TO CREATE A MEMORY PALACE?
CHOOSE A FAMILIAR BUILDING AND DRAW A FLOORPLAN
FORM A LINEAR PATH THROUGH THE FLOORPLAN
:!!: DO THIS BEFORE NUMBERING STATIONS
WORKS BEST WHEN YOU DON'T CROSS YOUR OWN PATH OR
LEAD YOURSELF INTO A DEAD END
DON'T
CRAM EVERY
POSSIBLE
STATION INTO
=YOUR PALACE :forbidden:
MAKE A TOP-DOWN LIST OF THOSE STATIONS IN LINEAR ORDER
(for testing purposes )
REVIEW YOUR PALACE
HOW TO USE YOUR MEMORY PALACE?
MAKE THE WORDS MEMORABLE :fire:
1) PAY ATTENTION IN A SPECIAL WAY TO TARGET WORDS
2) ENCODING
the sound and meaning of information using imagery and action so each words or phrase becomes
memorable
3) DECODING
IMAGERY AND ACTIONS SO THAT YOU CAN MOVE WORDS INTO YOUR
LONG-TERM MEMORY
use images that are LARGE, BRIGHT, COLOURFUL WEIRD AND FILLED WITH INTENSE ACTIONS
: :recycle:
exaggerate the imagery so that you can RETRIEVE them by DRAWING ON sounds and meaning :warning:
*
CREATE AN
OUTLANDISH
IMAGE THAT WILL EASILY
POUR
ITSELF
INTO YOUR LONG-TERM MEMORY ! *
ENTER ABRAHAM LINCOLN!
A BRIDGING FIGURE
WILL HELP YOU
SUPERCGANGE
YOUR MEMORY PALACE AND
ACCELERATE
YOUR LEARNING
Someone who takes an imainary journey through your palace and interacts with your images
PRACTICAL TIPS
:unlock:
1) BUILD
a well-constructed memory palace
2)
RELAX
3) MEMORIZE
a selected list of words (in alphabetic order)
4) CATALOG t
he words in an Excel file
5) REMOVE
yourself from the written record and other materials that can cause you cheat
6) WRITE OUT
the words on a piece of paper DON'T WORRY IF YOUR ASSOCIATIVE MIND FAILS TO TRIGGER SOME OF THE WORDS :warning:
7) CHECK
8) USE these words in conversations and
KEEP YOUR EYES AND EARS OPEN FOR THEM AS YOU READ AND LISTEN TO YOUR TARGET LANG
:!!: :!: