Firstly, how do people see (specific images) the words that connect objects and names etc (nouns) like and, the, I, am, are etc.
I’d like to start memorizing strings of text. I want to experience what happens when I start memorizing text verbatim. I’m remembering random objects at the moment and want to move past that stage.
Secondly, is there a specific way people are memorizing verbatim text specifically in memory palaces. Do you remember one word per station or do you use the station as a peg that the first word is attached too and then you link words with the word attached to the peg or do you do something else?
Aren’t these connecting words in most cases obvious enough in the context of the sentence so that you don’t need to memorize them? (in the sense that you usually can reconstruct the sentences pretty well from the key words without special encoding)
I would just memorise the key words and only add something for the small words if they pose a problem in a specific case.
Of course personal experience may vary… But learning key words + a bit of first letter reviews usually does the trick for me.
Well for the connecting words you can either come up with and practice a set of images for them, or just come up with something on the spot that you get the meaning out of.
Having someone named The-odore, or And-rew might give you what you want. AT-AT ala Star Wars for at. Maybe a floating eyeball with a crown on it to tell you it’s the pronoun I instead of an eye. Whatever comes to mind for you at the time has a pretty good chance of working.
I have memorized some passages in Latin verbatim in memory palaces (as well as some Italian poetry). Metrical poetry is easier, if you know the meter and can “feel” it when reading or reciting. Also, you can learn shorter poems without memory palaces if you sing them repeatedly - this is how I learned some poems by Anacreon, Horace, and Catullus (of course, this is easier if the poem has been set to music already, as these poems had been).
For poetry I can usually link an image to each phrase or line to keep them all in order (this is what I did for some passages from Dante, Horace, and Vergil). For example, “esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte” (from Dante) is just an image of a forest (selva) of that description linked to a single statue in one “palace.” The meter helps a lot.
Prose is often a lot more work so I’ve never memorized more than a page (the last page of Somnium Scipionis in Roma Aeterna edition) and I haven’t maintained more than half a page in the long term.
In Latin prose, for common words like “iam” (meaning depends slightly on context, but “now” or “soon”) and “et” (“and”) I made up symbols (“iam” is a bottle of strawberry jam, and “et” is a sort of crowbar thing that looks like a capital gamma, because that is similar to the symbol used in Latin shorthand).
If I’m really stuck, I sometimes “write” it out phonetically - like for the phrase “huic ab adulescentia…” (to him from adolescence…”) I imagined Tom Baker as Doctor Who, the creak of an old door (who + eek) and someone’s torso (abs), and Cataline (the “him” in question) as a troublesome teenager, sort of like a 50s greaser.
However, that is a lot of work, and I’ll never learn a whole book that way, just passages which I want to or am required to recite.
Hi.i don’t know much about palace but maybe you can improve your method creating a story. Like cuesta selva selvagia e áspera e Forte. Forte is strong. Each word could be something and create a story. This is a lot of work. Only if it’s really difficult to remember.