Memorize foreign words: association, ligaments, "memory palaces"

Who among us, in school or university, I did not dream to remember and process information from your computer speed and even better? Times of Johnny Mnemonic, we are unlikely to see, but in order to not only store massive amounts of in my head information, but also cleverly to get exactly what you need, it is not necessary to embed itself into the computer head device. Although I personally know a few people who would be delighted with such an idea;)

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You might have read the articles about training memory "Memory training: Cambridge test", "Memory training: remember names and faces"And"Practicing memory exercises with numbers». If they are interested in you, I am sure that the method is fast and effective learning foreign words you will be no less interesting. Those who love to save time, just remember about mobile translators. But you will not pry into your vocabulary admitting girl in love, for example, in French? And even if you still resort to the help of technology, you will still need to learn it!

So, let's begin. I will try to make you familiar with the technique in brief. Because in order to achieve truly high performance, you still have to read the book completely. The material is taken from the book by Dominic O'Brien "How to develop an absolute memory".

In order to quickly memorize foreign words, you do not necessarily monotonous cramming vocabulary and pore over for a long time. Especially, it is quite likely outcome of such rote learning - just surrender standard and further complete the "evaporation" what you have learned from your head. That is, the information, of course, will remain in your brain (there, in contrast to our memory, nothing disappears), but here again to get it will be quite difficult.

To your time and effort have been spent in vain, try to memorize words by building associations, ligaments and original "memory palaces".

Step 1. Imagine you familiar city. Draw in his head a detailed map - park, stadium, shop, restaurant, etc.

Step 2. Use your imagination and association - it will help foreign word to you and give you a key image.

Step 3. Place your key image in a location that would logically consistent meaning of the word in your native language.

Step 4. When you combine your keyword anchor seat imagine some bright picture that links them together.

Next, you can highlight in your city place for verbs (stadium, sports complex, etc.), adjectives (park) nouns, etc., as well as highlight in the area for the masculine, feminine and, if required, medium kind. And, of course, come up with a bunch as possible bright and unusual. The more unreal and exaggerated image is obtained, the greater the chance that you will remember it better.

An example from the book will be difficult to lead, because it is written by a person whose native language - English. We are also quite difficult to find similar words in Russian (Ukrainian) language with, for example, Italian. But if you have a rather developed imagination, it does not make you much trouble.

The Italian word "Correre" (run) is pronounced roughly as "Correr". With these words may have multiple associations. So, which first appeared in your mind, and will be the primary. My key image - "quarry". So I can imagine some pit, where it produces, for example, coal. Since «correre» is run, so I can imagine a man running on a career. A pit may be, e.g., a huge stadium.

This is the simplest example. Ideally, you need to come up to his words, such cords, which then can be linked together. Let the words of lead in your city and spread over various districts.

Of course, after reading it for the first time, you might think that this way is absurd. Believe me, even I was typing this post, on the go in just a 5 minutes and found a bunch of word. Can not correctly and perfectly (after all, the first time), but this method is quite real. The author warns that you can not turn out right the first time and, possibly, the first steps will take away a lot of time and effort. But our memory - this is our wealth. Building on our brains, we extend your life, filling it with colors and sounds to the end.

In the book "After three it's too late," a Japanese professor Massar Ibuka argues that until that time, the child absorbs information around. He does not teach, not bison, he just studies, understands and recognizes. Then, growing up, people lose the gift, and he has to have to make efforts - to teach and learn by rote. Others, however, proving it by his own example, argue that the weakening of memory and attention is not because that we age (except for medical reasons), but because they are relaxed and cease to train our brain and memory. Yes, we have to train, learn and constantly improve (we also have more than three years), but in your work you will be rewarded. Especially in old age. Especially now, when memorizing lists, meeting schedules and phone numbers, we fully trusted their digital companions.

Training your memory and brain, we do not lose time in vain - we threaded a fulfilling life!