I do hope he continues though. There is so many great learning videos on RUclips. Most people come to watch fun mind numbing crap. I also watch just fun clips to escape. But love to learn. I guess because i am older and only dreamt of having to click on something and i could learn it. I would have to go to the library and hope they had a book on a subject and hope no one had borrowed it out. But visual learning is so much more effective. My son watches some kids playing minecraft or someother game and they get like 60 million views every vid they release. Its sad that most people, the more they dumb down their videos the more views.
That's actually what I do to remember foreign vocabulary but combining it with Memory Palace technique... having a location for each letter allows me to remember where did I store the images... although I'm bad at keeping stations within locations xD
Cool 👍 I call it ‘fake etymology method’. English words are perfect for this trick - they are generally very short which makes them perfect building blocks for these imaginary etymologies. I am a native Russian speaker learning English and oftentimes I find it easier to memorize new English words through English words I already know.
По мотм ощущениям - английский эффективнее вспринимается мозгом. В какой-то момент полностью перешёл на запоминание с его помощью, русский использую только в повседневной жизни. 4 года прошло🔥
A aí! Eu falo um pouco Português! Eu tenho 4 anos em espanhol em escuela, mas eu sou estou me mudando para o brasil por 2 anos em Outubro! English is my first language but I learned Spanish fluently I'm trying to learn Portuguese a little better before I live in Brazil for 2 years.
i’m learning korean and i got the hangul down, i’m good at syllables and letters and i read it, but i barely know any words. i have no idea on where to start learning what the words actually mean.
I call this method the "chain" or "chain join" method, but I think it's a bad idea to memorize words in several languages at once, it's better to learn one language a month and the words must be entrenche in long term memory, and then move on to another language.. As always, you have a great submission of techniques, great vid, thank you Nelson.
Great to hear and see some of your images - and the German pronunciation sounds pretty good (especially with the Rammstein clip). One thing about using a Memory Palace to note as that they help you scale not just the amount of words you can encode, but also complete a 2nd round to attach phrases (or tones, characters, etc). Plus, the Memory Palace lets you do SRS-style recall in your mind to max the benefits of primacy, recency, serial-positioning and have a home for the images that can help you overcome the forgetting curve fast. Thanks and can't wait for the RMT! :)
awesome.... its me prakash from nepal, i reallly appreciate your work., thanks a lot. Can you please make videos how to memorise long paragraphs for exam purpose? waiting your response
I actually do this but also place each of these images in a place somewhere i usually walk by. That way whenever i go out, i see the place and remember the word, you know, for continuous recalling
I like how he acknowledges this random smashing mnemonic technique is not as powerful as memory palaces. Just do the palaces! We keep trying to reinvent the wheel to 'save time'. Palaces is the best method; I've searched and tried exhaustively, and I'm on my 3rd language now.
This works the problem is that to be fluent in a language you need to learn at least 10,000 words so this is quite a long winded way to remember them all. I’ve applied it a few times and when I do I have to sort of pause and recreate the scene in my head in order to recall the word which is definitely not a real time solution to recalling vocabulary. Often also, the sounds of foreign languages don’t map easily to English and you’re forced to be excessively creative with how you map the word to your visual (as he illustrated with German and russian) and often I find that I can recall the scenario but not word in the other language. Just my 2c.
The memory thing is only needed until you see the word used a few times. After that, you know the word. I agree -- this is much too slow to use forever. And "fluent" takes years.
Thank you for the video! My only criticism is, wouldn't it cause you to remember a language as a step after english, causing you to process first english, then the mnemorics and only then to try to produce words? So 3x times to process and speak, as opposed to native level speaking?
For Schmetterling I would have imagined a "sweater link" like an old fashioned Bavarian fastener for buttoning up a sweater, a sweater link, a Schmetterling.
Hey Nelson! I recently found your channel after starting to memorise playing cards... Since than I watched super many of your videos! Great work, great editing, great guy! Thank you! I have used the linking method in the past but I did not know the name of the method... Like I put an German bug (the "Assel") on a Glass of Honey - Arabic word 'assel' means = honey / sweet / cute :-) But now I will restart doing it and there are so many languages left where knowing a few words can really help you! :-) I actually was wondering how that method might be called yesterday night an now I get your video in my feed... The algorithm has blessed me ;-) Thanks Nelson!!!
MEMORIZING FOREIGN WORDS // RANDOM MEMORY TIPS #005. This is glorious, I've been looking for "best memorization app" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Yiyevi Ponevi Approach - (just google it ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my brother in law got cool success with it.
This definitely won't get you to fluency but being able to have a technique to quickly learn a large amount of vcabe is invaluable to get to the point of being able to immerse and have some comprehensible I put even if you're understanding is only surface level. Would love to see you do a Japanese version of this
Hey Nelson! This was great, thank you. Do you have any tips on how to memorize foreign alphabets? I am trying to learn Cambodian at the moment. Thank you!
7:39 you should seriously do a *stand up comedy special* with linking words and concepts like this. perhaps a stand up special about memorizing foreign words! i’m literally laughing so much about the butterfly saying “hey i don’t need bugles, do you have any danishes?” that’s hilarious!😂😂😂😂😂😂sommerfugl right? see i remembered!😂😂😂
Awesome. Thank you for the great tip! I wonder how the words such as adjective, adverb and verb can be memorized? For example, a adverb, 'directly', 'abruptly' etc. it's pretty hard to make the images. Would you recommend any tip for that?
You do not need to insert any of the information in your mind palace. Here's why. You've memorized, essentially, two things: 1. The word 'butterfly' in a different language. (For example, mariposa) 2. Which language that is. (In this case, Spanish.) You've turned both of those into pictures (mariposa = marry pose; Spanish = decoration, outfits, flag, bull) The word "Spanish" acts as your mind palace in the sense that it stores the information. It links to the other thing you want to remember, which is "mariposa". You think to yourself, What's the word for butterfly in Spanish? And the word "Spanish" reminds you of the decorations, the outfits and the bull, which then remind you of marry pose, which then reminds you of "mariposa".
Hi, your video was really awesome. I’m learning Japanese, do you have maybe also some tips for it? So that I remember the pronunciation with the Kanji. The Kanji have also meaning which I remember but still it makes it difficult to link the meaning of the Kanji with a pronunciation wich is quite different from the Western countries. Some random words: Kisha 記者 reporter Dantai 団体 group, team, organization
03:20 what? Haven't you seen the movie Papillon? Prisoner in French Polynesia has a tattoo of a butterfly. 05:00 why don't use the pasta? It is Italian, it looks like a butterfly, there you have it and BTW in danish and other scandinavian languages, I'm norwegian, sommerfugl is directly translated summer bird, fugl=bird
Hey Martin, nope never seen it. But that's the beauty of mnemonics, you choose what is most meaningful to you. I definitely encourage that over the examples I give! Thanks for watching.
Any advice on memorizing verbs that may not have an obvious image that also does not have phonemes similar to that of English? For example "to implement" (hard to picture or create an image) is SIL-sih (실시) which doesnt have an easy English-like phonemes
Korean sounds are very similar to English ones. "Silsi" is "seal sea" or "silly" or "sill seam" or "sear she" etc. Meaning is harder. Google Translate says 실시 is a noun meaning "practice". What is another word for "to implement"?
A Nice Grfx example. I use a Story and dictionary. Eg Please Change the Music. Thank you DJ. Please -Chenge thank You-DoJee in Cantonese . A bit of work beforehand but can always recall.
I wouldn't like some advice. I am fluent in three languages English and Hebrew are my dominant and Russian is in therd please. I am trying to learn Arabic and I this method is great but sometimes it relates to aword in Hebrew and I buld an imedge around it and sometimes in English. When I try to remember the word sometimes I don't remember what language I used to build the imedge. What do I do? BTW stiking to one language is hard.
Hola Nelson, Gracias por tu videos, pero busca otro ejemplo para España...somos mas cosas que toros..ejemplo tenemos grandes deportistas top mundiales, Saludos desde Albacete España
Nelson , what if the language you are learning is not Euoropean , like chinese or other languages , the sounds are very very different from your native language ,completely different ????????
Could you make a video where you learn an artificial language like Esperanto? I think that, you can learn it in a bit of time. Maybe the logic of the language will be funny for you. It isn't like the national languages, you won't need invest much time or money. Also, you know that bilingual person have advantages, so, your followers could learn it with your motivation. Thanks for your tips. I admire you.
I couldn't even recall 3 out of these 10 you made, I even forgot what stupid pictures you made for each so it'd be a struggle to recall the picture first and then struggle to recall the word if it wasn't close enough. You apparently took some time to prepare for this video, but, doing this for every word we learn will take eternity. So,I don't see this strategy efficient.
It's definitely worth it! First of all, it's free, just like its predecessor. Second, it's not going to take much of your time. You can be doing whatever you are doing right now and still take this course. Third, this course is very helpful in career perspective. It explains how you can be creative and bring paradigm shifts in different career paths you choose. Moreover, while a few things can seem to be repetitive from the last course, they will only help you to reinforce what you already learned. So, I should say you should definitely take it, because learning is always going to be helpful, and never a waste of time :)
IMHO: This "LINKING" method of memory seems to be much more troublesome, than practical!!! It requires taking a lot of time, struggling to connect ABSTRACT sounding "foreign words" by converting some weird, cartoon-ish, "mental image", to another equally abstract image related to the "mother-tongue" (source language), and then somehow trying to remember these "connections, for a lifetime!..... It's way too inefficient, slow, and fallible.
How do you not have a million subs yet? These are some super-high quality vids!
My thoughts exactly! Haha. Thanks for your kind words :)
I do hope he continues though. There is so many great learning videos on RUclips. Most people come to watch fun mind numbing crap. I also watch just fun clips to escape. But love to learn. I guess because i am older and only dreamt of having to click on something and i could learn it. I would have to go to the library and hope they had a book on a subject and hope no one had borrowed it out. But visual learning is so much more effective.
My son watches some kids playing minecraft or someother game and they get like 60 million views every vid they release. Its sad that most people, the more they dumb down their videos the more views.
The world is not ready yet
That's actually what I do to remember foreign vocabulary but combining it with Memory Palace technique... having a location for each letter allows me to remember where did I store the images... although I'm bad at keeping stations within locations xD
But the real challenge is fast recall. Perhaps we can memorize thousands of vocabularies but that doesn't necessarily well functioning when needed.
This was an AMAZING video. It really helps be remember things! Can you make another one like this? Thank you!
I'm glad I found your channel. It's really useful.Thank you so much!!!!
Your graphics are the underappreciated part of all your videos. Puppy on... I'll never forget that.
Cool 👍 I call it ‘fake etymology method’. English words are perfect for this trick - they are generally very short which makes them perfect building blocks for these imaginary etymologies. I am a native Russian speaker learning English and oftentimes I find it easier to memorize new English words through English words I already know.
По мотм ощущениям - английский эффективнее вспринимается мозгом. В какой-то момент полностью перешёл на запоминание с его помощью, русский использую только в повседневной жизни. 4 года прошло🔥
I am Brazilian nice association for borboleta ...
A aí! Eu falo um pouco Português! Eu tenho 4 anos em espanhol em escuela, mas eu sou estou me mudando para o brasil por 2 anos em Outubro! English is my first language but I learned Spanish fluently I'm trying to learn Portuguese a little better before I live in Brazil for 2 years.
i’m learning korean and i got the hangul down, i’m good at syllables and letters and i read it, but i barely know any words. i have no idea on where to start learning what the words actually mean.
I call this method the "chain" or "chain join" method, but I think it's a bad idea to memorize words in several languages at once, it's better to learn one language a month and the words must be entrenche in long term memory, and then move on to another language.. As always, you have a great submission of techniques, great vid, thank you Nelson.
Great to hear and see some of your images - and the German pronunciation sounds pretty good (especially with the Rammstein clip).
One thing about using a Memory Palace to note as that they help you scale not just the amount of words you can encode, but also complete a 2nd round to attach phrases (or tones, characters, etc).
Plus, the Memory Palace lets you do SRS-style recall in your mind to max the benefits of primacy, recency, serial-positioning and have a home for the images that can help you overcome the forgetting curve fast.
Thanks and can't wait for the RMT! :)
Very true. Wanted to stay light and surface-level in this video, but might go into that further in future video :D Thank for watching brother!
Anthony Metivier - I checked out your profile and realized I was subscribed and can't wait to sign up for your courses.
I am new here and learning a German language. This is really beneficial for learning German. I have also subscribe your channel.
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You Rock! Good job! I like it!
awesome.... its me prakash from nepal, i reallly appreciate your work., thanks a lot. Can you please make videos how to memorise long paragraphs for exam purpose? waiting your response
I actually do this but also place each of these images in a place somewhere i usually walk by. That way whenever i go out, i see the place and remember the word, you know, for continuous recalling
You always been great...thank you
Nice and great video. But please how can I memorize foreign phrases or sentences with their correct pronunciation.
Great video. !Gracias!
I like how he acknowledges this random smashing mnemonic technique is not as powerful as memory palaces. Just do the palaces! We keep trying to reinvent the wheel to 'save time'. Palaces is the best method; I've searched and tried exhaustively, and I'm on my 3rd language now.
Arabic by any chance?? I am trying to learn it but its a bit hard to associate images( i am french living in uk do with both languages)
This works the problem is that to be fluent in a language you need to learn at least 10,000 words so this is quite a long winded way to remember them all. I’ve applied it a few times and when I do I have to sort of pause and recreate the scene in my head in order to recall the word which is definitely not a real time solution to recalling vocabulary. Often also, the sounds of foreign languages don’t map easily to English and you’re forced to be excessively creative with how you map the word to your visual (as he illustrated with German and russian) and often I find that I can recall the scenario but not word in the other language. Just my 2c.
The memory thing is only needed until you see the word used a few times. After that, you know the word. I agree -- this is much too slow to use forever. And "fluent" takes years.
This was superb!!! I'm gonna use it to complement my Spanish lessons :D
It's not effective at least for me.
super cool.... excellent ... Please do more videos on learning vocabulary or languages
The pasta is farfalle, and there is a dog breed (mine) called a papillon--butterfly-like fluffy ears :)
Thank you for the video!
My only criticism is, wouldn't it cause you to remember a language as a step after english, causing you to process first english, then the mnemorics and only then to try to produce words? So 3x times to process and speak, as opposed to native level speaking?
Great video!
German here: The first pronunciation of 'Schmetterling' was well!
Keep up the great work!
For Schmetterling I would have imagined a "sweater link" like an old fashioned Bavarian fastener for buttoning up a sweater, a sweater link, a Schmetterling.
Very creative.
Sir after studying something,what's the review method ? Thank you
i was wondering about the same
Review as you learn it, and space it though the time
spaced repetition
there are softwares like anki
Hey Nelson!
I recently found your channel after starting to memorise playing cards... Since than I watched super many of your videos! Great work, great editing, great guy! Thank you!
I have used the linking method in the past but I did not know the name of the method...
Like I put an German bug (the "Assel") on a Glass of Honey - Arabic word 'assel' means = honey / sweet / cute :-)
But now I will restart doing it and there are so many languages left where knowing a few words can really help you! :-)
I actually was wondering how that method might be called yesterday night an now I get your video in my feed... The algorithm has blessed me ;-)
Thanks Nelson!!!
Amazing ❤
Many thanks. How we can do When word has 5 or 8 differents meanings?
You're great at editing these videos! Good job.
I think you have amazing imagination that makes it all possible :)
In Russian correct pronunciation would be like "bAA(h)bochka" (major stress on "a"), jfyi ;)
Thanks for the correction!
MEMORIZING FOREIGN WORDS // RANDOM MEMORY TIPS #005. This is glorious, I've been looking for "best memorization app" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Yiyevi Ponevi Approach - (just google it ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my brother in law got cool success with it.
Ha!😝
This definitely won't get you to fluency but being able to have a technique to quickly learn a large amount of vcabe is invaluable to get to the point of being able to immerse and have some comprehensible I put even if you're understanding is only surface level.
Would love to see you do a Japanese version of this
very amazing buddy
Hey Nelson! This was great, thank you. Do you have any tips on how to memorize foreign alphabets? I am trying to learn Cambodian at the moment. Thank you!
7:39 you should seriously do a *stand up comedy special* with linking words and concepts like this. perhaps a stand up special about memorizing foreign words! i’m literally laughing so much about the butterfly saying “hey i don’t need bugles, do you have any danishes?” that’s hilarious!😂😂😂😂😂😂sommerfugl right? see i remembered!😂😂😂
what about remember spelling any technique you do have ?
What if you have to remember something inmaterial like words for emotions or political ideologies/accounting terms or something?
the German example is hilarious 😂
dam I have german language exam this week
Amy Adams in The Arrival = Yes, Yes and more Yes.
Thank you so much 🌸🇸🇦
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Who is Amy Adam's character based off?
I want more about how to remember korean vocabulary 😭😭
Great idea.
Awesome. Thank you for the great tip! I wonder how the words such as adjective, adverb and verb can be memorized? For example, a adverb, 'directly', 'abruptly' etc. it's pretty hard to make the images. Would you recommend any tip for that?
I can speak English, Hindi, Marathi. Trying to learn Russian, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Panjabi... 😛😛😛🌹
I am trying to learn French got any more tips to help. Thanks
I didn’t remember them all perfectly , but I was laughing at how well I was doing OMG . This is like a brain hack !
@nelsonDellis Pour retrouver ton nom sur RUclips j'ai pensé a Nelson Mandela qui mangeait un délice !
Hey, is it better for me to insert these associations in my mind palace, or just the word association by itself is enough?
Great video!
You do not need to insert any of the information in your mind palace. Here's why.
You've memorized, essentially, two things:
1. The word 'butterfly' in a different language. (For example, mariposa)
2. Which language that is. (In this case, Spanish.)
You've turned both of those into pictures (mariposa = marry pose; Spanish = decoration, outfits, flag, bull)
The word "Spanish" acts as your mind palace in the sense that it stores the information. It links to the other thing you want to remember, which is "mariposa".
You think to yourself, What's the word for butterfly in Spanish? And the word "Spanish" reminds you of the decorations, the outfits and the bull, which then remind you of marry pose, which then reminds you of "mariposa".
Hi sir. Butterfly is kelebek in Turkish. Possible to link them? Regards.
Hi, your video was really awesome. I’m learning Japanese, do you have maybe also some tips for it? So that I remember the pronunciation with the Kanji. The Kanji have also meaning which I remember but still it makes it difficult to link the meaning of the Kanji with a pronunciation wich is quite different from the Western countries.
Some random words:
Kisha 記者 reporter
Dantai 団体 group, team, organization
Then the more effective strategy than this tips is space repetition. Carry out vocabulary note wherever you go. Open that whenever needed.
Can you make videos series on French pl
03:20 what? Haven't you seen the movie Papillon? Prisoner in French Polynesia has a tattoo of a butterfly.
05:00 why don't use the pasta? It is Italian, it looks like a butterfly, there you have it
and BTW in danish and other scandinavian languages, I'm norwegian, sommerfugl is directly translated summer bird, fugl=bird
Hey Martin, nope never seen it. But that's the beauty of mnemonics, you choose what is most meaningful to you. I definitely encourage that over the examples I give! Thanks for watching.
Any advice on memorizing verbs that may not have an obvious image that also does not have phonemes similar to that of English? For example "to implement" (hard to picture or create an image) is SIL-sih (실시) which doesnt have an easy English-like phonemes
Korean sounds are very similar to English ones. "Silsi" is "seal sea" or "silly" or "sill seam" or "sear she" etc. Meaning is harder. Google Translate says 실시 is a noun meaning "practice". What is another word for "to implement"?
Some one should publish a book that comprehensively presents good links for German words.
I'm learning German and remembering words that aren't close to English is so hard for me. 😭 I already knew Schmetterling
Hi Nelson Dellis I am learning Polish so how do I link something to know its from Polish?
A Nice Grfx example. I use a Story and dictionary.
Eg Please Change the Music. Thank you DJ.
Please -Chenge thank You-DoJee in Cantonese . A bit of work beforehand but can always recall.
I wouldn't like some advice. I am fluent in three languages English and Hebrew are my dominant and Russian is in therd please. I am trying to learn Arabic and I this method is great but sometimes it relates to aword in Hebrew and I buld an imedge around it and sometimes in English. When I try to remember the word sometimes I don't remember what language I used to build the imedge. What do I do?
BTW stiking to one language is hard.
How many words you can learn per hour/day using this method?
I love the technique number two so funny
I like your video... Have a nice day.
thank you!
Conseilles tu cette méthode pour l Arabe également ??
hey
I have an Irish test tomorrow so I’m looking at lots of revision vids 😭😂😂😂
Taylor ann Larkin sorry if it is late but good Luck how you did well
Memorizing of German vocabulary was very difficult for me. It was crazy.
sommerfugl is easy to remember because it's literally summer bird
Hola Nelson, Gracias por tu videos, pero busca otro ejemplo para España...somos mas cosas que toros..ejemplo tenemos grandes deportistas top mundiales, Saludos desde Albacete España
Nelson , what if the language you are learning is not Euoropean , like chinese or other languages , the sounds are very very different from your native language ,completely different ????????
Could you make a video where you learn an artificial language like Esperanto? I think that, you can learn it in a bit of time. Maybe the logic of the language will be funny for you. It isn't like the national languages, you won't need invest much time or money. Also, you know that bilingual person have advantages, so, your followers could learn it with your motivation. Thanks for your tips. I admire you.
That's a great idea. I'll consider it for a future video!
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I couldn't even recall 3 out of these 10 you made, I even forgot what stupid pictures you made for each so it'd be a struggle to recall the picture first and then struggle to recall the word if it wasn't close enough. You apparently took some time to prepare for this video, but, doing this for every word we learn will take eternity. So,I don't see this strategy efficient.
Puppy Yawn while flying with wings.
subtitulos en español por favor
I get It 😂 my language issues is my lack of imagination.. i dont make Up anything in spanish when i think buterfly 🤔 maybe vater guay .. 🚽👌
How to remember spelling of 1000 word ?
I would have imagined a butterfly wrestling cause of schmetter-
oh realy want to give you some dutch lessons! :P vlinder - blender hahaha
Do you speak any other languages that you learnt using these methods?
so if u have 1000-2000 words core basic words are enough to know a language
Mojave
Anyone else came from Mindshift?
Yes me. Is the course worth it after Learning how to Learn? (I only watched the memory tips)
It's definitely worth it! First of all, it's free, just like its predecessor. Second, it's not going to take much of your time. You can be doing whatever you are doing right now and still take this course. Third, this course is very helpful in career perspective. It explains how you can be creative and bring paradigm shifts in different career paths you choose. Moreover, while a few things can seem to be repetitive from the last course, they will only help you to reinforce what you already learned. So, I should say you should definitely take it, because learning is always going to be helpful, and never a waste of time :)
Awesome, I will definitely take this course, thank you! I love how Barbara Oakley is teaching this stuff. It really changes your life and thinking.
You're welcome :)
And right, both Barb and Terry are amazing!
bAbochka, not babOchka ;)
Thanks for correcting :)
Try Arabic...... it's almost impossible
I LUV ur beard!!!!!!?
Brazil Samba Borboleta kkkkkkk
I just got more confused 😕
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Is this genius or madness?
This methods are time consuming. No success guarantee.
unfortunately, this mnemonic technique absolutely useless, if it’s not a tomorrow test.
IMHO: This "LINKING" method of memory seems to be much more troublesome, than practical!!! It requires taking a lot of time, struggling to connect ABSTRACT sounding "foreign words" by converting some weird, cartoon-ish, "mental image", to another equally abstract image related to the "mother-tongue" (source language), and then somehow trying to remember these "connections, for a lifetime!..... It's way too inefficient, slow, and fallible.
My brain keeps showing me the puppy on butterfly image in the middle of the night and I couldn’t remember the exact word so here I an again 🥲