I have been using memory palaces to learn for many years. Mainly for learning languages. I have a method that I use, but I am not sure if it is a “thing” so to speak or has a name. I wonder if anyone here uses a similar method.
There are lots of information to learn about a single word in a foreign language. You need to learn how to read it, write it, and the meaning. In this method, I encode and store each of these separate pieces of information in a palace and then associate them by their position in the palace.
For example, usually, I just have two palaces one for reading (pronunciation) and another for meaning. One room will have 5 or 10 loci in order and I store mnemonics at each location for each word, with meaning in one palace and pronunciation. Each location in order will correspond to the same word. So location 1 in the meaning palace is the same word as location 1 in the pronunciation palace, and so on.
Anyway, just wanted to share this method I have been using. Do other people do this?
I saw a video from Nelson Dellis about the periodic table where he had parallel palaces (one for the names and atomic numbers, one for the other data like electron configuration and atomic mass).
Never used it myself though.
If it works for you it’s the only thing that matter
I don’t store the association anywhere, but simply remember it. It is easy enough to check by comparing the vocab with the corresponding meaning. Sometimes I do forget where a palace is, as in, what physical location, but I can usually jog my memory with some effort.
I really like this idea because it goes about solving a problem by breaking it down into individual parts that are easily managed. Each of these individual parts are more simple to deal with. You can very quickly code these small pieces of information. Now I have some more ideas to play with. I hope someone else finds this idea as interesting as I have.
