Memory Palace For Learning Chinese

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I’m starting to learn Chinese and wanna apply a Memory Palace Technique based on the Memory Town technique. I’m stuck with the practical application, though…

I divided my town into different sections for different parts of speech and have something like this right now:

  • Verbs (in and around the park)
  • Nouns (on the way to school)
  • Personal pronouns ( are the people in my town)
    … etcetera

Now the problem with Chinese is that a lot of words have double functions. For example: 学习 (xue2 xi2) is both the verb “to study” and the noun “study”. How do I handle this? Do I use words in multiple locations? Or do I create seperate locations for these special cases?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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I would not create separate locations for these special cases, they are too many.

What do you use to put a word into a place? For instance, how do you but the verb “to study” in its place?

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HI Guys,

Sorry I didn’t see this post. Learning Chinese is a big project for me at the moment. Someone has started a new topic on it because they didn’t want to focus on a particular method - like the memory palace, or on characters or pinyin separately, but look at the whole Learning Chinese issue together.

Learning Chinese

In my long posts there today, I didn’t get to memory palaces much, although I use one all the time. I think that @Liam has identified the exact problem with the approach you suggest. I use palaces that way for French, but not for Chinese. For Chinese, I use a palace based on the radicals of the characters. I explained that a bit on the new topic, but will go into details depending on what others suggest and what people ask.

Maybe you will both join us there?

Lynne

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