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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6864 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 1 of 3 16 August 2013 at 8:23pm | IP Logged |
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Has anyone ever come across this strategy? I have been using it and have noticed a sharp increase in my vocab retention. You can read about it here
http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Memory-Palace What interests me is: 1) Should you have 26 different memory palaces? Or is it enough to have one memory palace with 26 stations? 2) If you want to learn multiple languages, is it worth having a memory palace for each language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 3 17 August 2013 at 10:39am | IP Logged |
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The difficulty seems to be the fact, that in language learning, one has to remember thousands of
informations. Let's say I want to learn the TOCFL vocabulary, that's ~8,000 words. I'd either have to make a huge memory palace (8,000 loci's would probably require it to be a memory city, as opposed to a memory palace :) ); reuse one smaller memory palace, though I don't know whether that wouldn't cause some problems/confusion; or maybe, memorize lists using the link method, and memorize first objects of each list in a smaller memory palace. Those are the options I could think of. The latter one appeals the most to me, it would require, for example, a memory palace of 160 loci's and lists of only 50 words. And the fact that one would remember the order as well, could make it easier to review (although not verify) without external help (such as paper flashcards or Anki). Edited by Ezy Ryder on 17 August 2013 at 10:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 3 17 August 2013 at 4:39pm | IP Logged |
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Rather than building a new structure using one criterion like the first letter of a word, I try to make better use of the existing structures.
As a literate speaker of a language that uses the Latin script, I already have a file system in place which follows the alphabet. I use it everytime I look up a word in the dictionary. As a learner of Japanese I also developed a file system that follows the kana, and one that follows kanji radicals. I practice the first one whenever I write or type kana, and the latter one when looking up kanji. I also have a secondary file system for rhyming words. I can't remember actually practicing it, I just think of a word and ask my brain to give me words that rhyme, and it does. Playing shiritori and scrabble also makes my brain organize the words I know in a way that makes them more accessible during the game. Something I noticed recently was that even though I don't often mix up similar sounding English words, like detention and declension, I tried cramming Japanese vocabulary with English as a base language and for those Japanese words I didn't actually understand, I ended up guessing my way through a number of similar sounding words. With a bias for the first syllable - 'was it determination, deployment, delivery? what did this word mean?' Even though I do not learn vocabulary in alphabetical order, I still show the typical second language speaker's bias for confusing words that start with the same letter, and those that sound or look similar overall. That's why I try to put more emphasis on contextual clues, collocations and association by meaning or certain features. For example, blue items. Types of movement you can do with your feet. The feelings somebody might have at a funeral. Words that indicate hearsay, and which other words/forms they are used with. In addition to that, it might be a good idea to have a memory palace or alphabetical peg list that you can use to create a story, a path for those few words that simply don't stick, even though you know you've looked them up a dozen times. Though I made the experience that my personal motivation for remembering a certain word is what makes the difference. When the word itself makes me happy - because I understood it by myself, usually - I find myself remembering the context throughout the next day or two. When I create a joke or story for the word, I usually want to share it with somebody else. My best friend and I learned a lot that way, but it's boring when there's nobody who shares your enthusiasm and sense of humour. At least for me. I do find the story funny the first time, but I simply don't review it frequently enough. In turn, real, important memories may make all the difference, and so does having a person I *want* to tell about my experiences and the new things I discovered. Edited by Bao on 17 August 2013 at 4:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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