Memorizing Words
Here is a list of blog posts tagged with "Memorizing Words".
How to Memorize Poetry
Here are some tips on how to memorize poetry. You can find poems to memorize in our poems section.
How to Memorize Verbatim Text
This page discusses some common memory techniques for memorizing text word-for-word (verbatim). The ancient mnemonists (like Quintilian) distinguished between memoria rerum and memoria verborum.
How to Memorize a Book or Textbook
The easiest way to memorize a book or textbook is to use a memory palace or peg list. In this article, we'll discuss the different types of book memorization.
100 Days of Homer – An Experiment in Memorizing Literature
The book I’m reading at the moment is a translation of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. I thought that I would try using memory techniques to store the main elements.
Mnemonic Images for Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
One of the recent Memory Challenges was to memorize the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Dr. Yip Swee Chooi on Memorizing a 1774-page Chinese-English Dictionary
Dr. Yip Swee Chooi memorized a 1,774-page dictionary and can recall any word when you give him a page number. He doesn't have eidetic memory but uses a mind palace.
A Brief Description of My Mnemonic System for Sounds
In a few previous blog posts I’ve mentioned my mnemonic system for sounds. I’ve posted the mnemonic key online before, but the chart isn’t really self-explanatory.
Memorizing Poetry (Shakespeare) Using the Method of Loci
I’ve been experimenting with methods for memorizing poetry. Here are examples of the mnemonic images I used to memorize Hamlet’s famous soliloquy.
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember, Edited by Ted Hughes
In a blog comment, Jacob mentioned a book called By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember, compiled and edited by Ted Hughes.
Lists of Poems to Memorize
For anyone practicing poetry memorization, here is a list of some ideas of poems to memorize.
Tips for Memorizing Poetry?
Does anyone have special techniques for memorizing poetry? Do you assign lines to a specific number of locations? One word per memory palace location?
Mnemonic Images for Punctuation Marks
Does anyone else use images for memorizing punctuation? The poetry event was removed from the World Memory Championships but still exists in the USA Memory Championship.
Mnemonic Image System for Letters and Sounds
I’m getting closer to finishing a mnemonic systems for sounds. For now, I only need images for sounds that are in languages that I at familiar with.
Thinking about Mnemonic Systems for Learning Words and Languages
I’ve been thinking about mnemonic systems for memorizing foreign words similar to some of the descriptions I’ve read about Giordano Bruno’s system.
Mnemonic Images for the English Alphabet
Does anyone else use images for letters? It’s not very manageable for memorizing a lot of letters, but the images are there if I need them.
