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Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Now, let’s try this technique by using six ingredients for a pizza: flour, water, dry yeast, tomato sauce, cheese and basil.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Close your eyes and picture a home. First, you open the front door and see a bag of flour on the floor.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
The bag is broken and some of the flour has spilled. You are worried that you might slip so you carefully step over the area.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Second, you walk into your bedroom. On top of your bed sits a cup of water.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
The cup is shaped like an upside-down piece of pizza. You think about how funny that is and laugh about it.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Third, as you enter the living room, you see a very large spoon of dry yeast sitting on the sofa
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Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
The spoon is watching a cooking show on television. Fourth, while standing in the living room, you notice the room has a strange smell to it.
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Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
You look above the television and see a block of cheese hanging on the wall. Fifth, you walk into the kitchen and see two tomatoes chasing each other around the room.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Suddenly, they crash and explode, covering the floor in red. And sixth, you open the back door and go outside.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
There, you see a group of very tall green basil plants. In a funny voice, the tallest plant says, “Choose me!
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Choose me!” Did you notice anything strange about the palace?
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
It was full of extraordinary and humorous imagery. We will say more about that in a few minutes.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
But first, let’s check how well our technique worked.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
See if you can answer these questions: 1-What was on the wall above the television?
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
2-Where were the tomatoes and what were they doing? 3-Which object was sitting on the bed?
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
4-Where was the yeast and what was it doing? 5-Which ingredient spoke and what did it say?
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
6-What did you see when you opened the front door? My guess is that you remembered everything in our memory palace.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
For instance, if you want to remember a lot of words, memory trainer Anthony Metivier suggests first drawing a simple map of your memory palace.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Then, number the places along your path where you will put the things that you want to remember. You can put more than one thing in each room or area.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Later, you will add the mental imagery. English teacher James, of the YouTube channel JamesESL English Lessons, has additional advice.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
In his video on memory palaces, he says that there are three keys to a strong memory palace.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
They are: emotion, movement, and connections between the object and something permanent.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Both he and Metivier say imagining things in a humorous or crazy way improves your ability to remember them.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
These experts also agree that connecting images to actions or movement will create lasting memories.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
For instance, the tomatoes were chasing each other and the basil spoke.
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