The title is ambiguous but I looked everywhere and I couldn’t find anything relevant. First Im looking for technics to remember words like “Descartes : liberty, will, free will” while it is easy to remember “Trees, dog, sun” Im stuck when it comes to abstract words. And another subject, what system do you use to remember vocabulary of another language like “manzana” (ok this one is really easy) I heard of a syllade/sound system, do you have others ?
It gets easier with practice. There are some ideas on the How to Create Mnemonic Images page.
Here are some example images for the words you mentioned:
| Fact | Mnemonic Image |
|---|---|
| Descartes | Cartesian coordinates |
| liberty | Statue of Liberty |
| will | William Tell shooting an apple on someone’s head |
| free will | Free Willy |
If you haven’t seen it yet, you can practice memorizing words on Memory League.
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Anime:
Have a look at the book of Dominic O’Brien called “How to pass exams”.
He wrote this book in 1995, so it’s a little old, but it explains a lot about how to memorize this kind of thing, and it’s a book with few pages, so you can read it in one Saturday.
Besides that, he explains other methods to learn better, like “Speed Reading” (that I don’t know if it really works, but you can give it a try) or “Mind Maps” that helps me a lot to learn certain subjects…
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Thank you for responding so quickly, I’ll have a look. Didnt know it was possible to create images for everything