Hello someone as can help me how I want to memory abstract words for exmpele green. jump, love and ill?
Some possible associations you can make:
- Green = Grass / Plant
- Jump = A person jump roping (or doing high jump)
- Love = Heart
- Ill = Someone puking / a person in fetus-position (because their stomach is aching)
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You have various options, IMO:
- Choose an image for the word that relates to it or reminds you of something because it seems like, feels like, taste like, sounds like, smells like.
- Choose an arbitrary image (I wouldn’t for competition, too much time, tough maybe it’d work for you)
- Choose a emotional, logical, psychological connotation or of any other kind. Similar but not the same as the first two option.
- Chunk the word, and from the fragment create images connotation and then link image fragments and link the result to the abstract word.
- Make an alphabet list (this is going overboard, even for me) and memorize letter by letter the same way you would for numbers.
- My favorite method for competitive or text memorization: link the word with previous or next word. If the word is within a phrase or a meaningful paragraph, it be easier, just create an story and place the result within a memory palace.
Edit:
- Use a memorized 00-99 peg list of images (preferably Persons or Characters), associate each person with the corresponding word and place in memory places. You can always set your rules for this method. Consider for example taking only 00-09 and for each person you attach them with 5 words; only using 10 loci for memorization.
Happy memorization! 
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Ok so you mean that I want to convert the word to a piuctre that resembles or sounds like? So the words spell have no big meaning and what tips are there to remember the spelling of the word?
Ok so you mean that I want to convert the word to a piuctre that resembles or sounds like? So the words spell have no big meaning and what tips are there to remember the spelling of the word?
What do you mean with arbitrary image and Chunk the word?
What mean you with alphabet list for words and how can I connect the word to the previous or next word?
but in the competition how make I to spell right there is some teqhnipues there? When I want to memory en list of words in the competiton there spell have meaning how do I do to spell correctly and are there any techniques?
Considering the spelling in that sentence… first of all, ask for the list of words in your native language.
Also, nobody is trying to trick you at the competitions, so there are certain rules about which words to use… normally, plurals of words are discouraged, etc. (used to be like that anyways).
It helps to understand the event in the first place is what I’m saying… i.e., knowing what kind of words you’ll get there. Please don’t ask me for a list of rules though… you can find them with either of the organizations. There is also a search box here on the forum that you can use.
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But how make you to memory abstract words?
Mostly we initially learn words as part of a phrase. One hears this clearly from children who repeat their parents’s words verbatim. IMO this is the natural format for retention. There are words that really only exist as part of a phrase. “He was livid”. “Livid” means white. He was white with anger. We never use the word livid in any other context.
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In terms of memorizing phrases, foreign or not, how would you go about memorizing them? Keyword method? A Link for every word? I ask because your post gave me an idea about language learning, and I want to test it out when I have the time.
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If your talking to me:
For language learning:
Use techniques possible, the trick is: memorize the highest amount of words and hold it in a memory palace. My route consists: first the language script and all the superficial text rules (not grammar, just alphabet) and pronunciation. After I have 2 options: start learning vocabulary and grammar as they appear in a book or site teaching the language… or have a base vocabulary to always first learn for every language where it fits (500-1500 words including: nouns, adjectives, all adverbs and all prepositions THAT I USE). I have paused my language learning becuase I want to first build that base vocabulary and make a images dictionary in English.
I use linkword or keyword method, most of the time: an image for written format and another for the meaning of the word, sometimes an image for the sounds, and place the images in memory palaces. That’s for vocabulary. This can be called Vocabulary First Approach. This approach can be tackle with or without a premade base words.
However I see potential in memorizing entire sentences and phrases: Text Fist Approach, take for instance a verb full conjugation can be learned faster with an paragraph in a tense of preference for all the pronouns… of course it will depend on the language. Now, you can use known verbs and nouns to learn new nouns and adjectives; the adverbs and conjunctions.
For languages where there are plenty of reapeated auxiliars or declensions like Russian and German, phrases and Text First approach rather than Vocabulary First approach.
Some languages could be learn better with a Grammar First approach depending on your already fluency of languages: if you are fluent in Spanish and you want to learn French, Italiano, Portuguese and other similar romance languages, then after learning the language script and pronunciation (I think this must be the first thing for any language learning, for highest efficiency), learning the grammar rules for verbs (at least skimming the rules), nouns, adjectives.
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I’d assume Latin script vs Hiragana vs Devanagari, etc.
The language script is just base alphabet, in this case English it’s the Latin script, that’s why it is A B C D E F G… and also Spanish language a more closely related to the Latin language have the same script, with minor differences. The script is the writting system.
The keyword technique consist in deriving a connotational word either by rhyme or chunking of a word.
Word butterfly can be thought of butter and a fly, those two words would be keywords, and if you’re learning English, then you imagine a fly fighting a butterfly over butter, if you already know the word butter and fly, those two may aid you to learn butterfly. In a more djstinctive way, would be taking the sound the word makes to generated an aiding image.
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Interestingly you say that. I was thinking of using IPA, a writing system to pronounce the sounds. Chunk method can help me group those words actually rather than memorizing one syllable at a time.
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I studied your alphabet list for a few days so far. I’ve found you’re a big fan of DC!
I have a question for the reason why you have action and object with respects to the alphabet. Then I’ll understand better if you give me an example of how you use the list to memorise stuff.
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Hello!
The alphabet pegs, I rarely use them, not because of the lack of uses cases but rather laziness. Now what can you do with them?
You can memorize lists and words. For list just mingle the mnemonic image with the target idea. For words you have various options, the same as with lists, memorize each letter of the word; you can memorize foreign words that way as well. If you train yourself like with numbers, it’d be fast enough. Now, for word and text memorization I’m very fond of pure imagery, it makes my life easier. Another interest is to memorize things that make use of letters, chess moves, music notes by scale (I use the piano), though I’ve realized that a 00-99 number system, can be used for those tasks and nothing stop me from combining as many different pegs with multiple mnemonic techniques.
Concerning the PAO, that’s just something that occurred to me as a thought to increase the speed of memorization. 50 random letters (a-z) can be easily memorize with a single list using the memory palace and linking method in combination. I made multiple lists to explore what felt better; a hurdle for me is that sometimes if I don’t like how the image makes me feel even if I’m seeing it clearly, I don’t like to use it. But that’s just part of my own stupidity, I no longer care about what I see, I overcomed that hurdle by actually seeing and feeling what I didn’t want it, at the end I’m the god of my imagination but that’s another topic.
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That’s cool. I’d love to know how you combine those methods, 00-99 number system, “pure imagery”, PAO
I know PAO is a good pal with memory palace. I usually implement binary system to construct my memory palace with PAO method.
wondering what methods you’re using the most?
My current issue with this peg is the sound. I have a problem with the sounds. I tried your list today. Some of characters are not familiar but I managed to watch video and practiced them. I just use your list to memorize the words by chunks.
I can’t remember the sound. English is my second language but unfortunately I’m working in an industry where I have to memorize all medical terms in a foreign firm.
Any suggestion? as you said you memorize the music note, I guess you just memorize the written notation? For us, we have IPA written pronunciation system.
P.S. thank you for sharing other resources like Mullen Memory. It’s really great.
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