well nice to meet you basically what I
wanted to talk about today was
memorizing words in a foreign language
and so what I want to know first is do
you have any techniques or any
particular methods of memorizing words
in a foreign language if indeed you do
at all yeah I do I'm I'm very much a
visual person so I have to imagine the
word and maybe have a picture of it in
front of me and repetition I have to say
it 10 15 times in my head straight away
just to make sure the information is in
there but for me also writing it down
and visualizing it the two ways of
learning new was very difficult for me
well it sir this is a problem that a lot
of people struggle with I have a
technique that I picked up from Darren
brown you know Darren brown yeah right
so basically it centers around the
making an image first making an image
making that image as unusual as possible
taking the words in the foreign language
and taking the word in the in your own
language and taking all the elements
about to put together in this image so
as an example the word Necco means cat
in japanese and the way that i remember
that is i think of a cat with a very
very long neck and exactly and this and
this cat is being suspended by the neck
so it's dangling down with its neck and
this is shouting OH which is
social uncomfortable position it'd be
terrible and one of the things that you
also have to do is you have to add
detail to the image so you have to add
excuse me
turn this front you have to add detail
to the image so your sensory channels
your eyes your your ears your your mouth
your nose and your sense of touch you
can add all these different channels
into the image so imagine stroking the
cat's neck but it's a very very long
neck what account with a very long neck
feel like how would it smell maybe you
could even eat some of the fur you know
what would the fur taste like getting in
your mouth fern probably not very nice
it's not not the greatest taste in the
world but the point is to make the image
as vivid as possible that way it creates
that combined with the unusual nature of
the image creates a kind of an emotion
and information with emotion is the
stuff that sticks if you put emotion
behind the piece of information it
sticks you've got to take all the
elements of the word and it doesn't have
to be perfect but just enough to trigger
your brain into remembering what this
thing is so neck okay we know neck and
oh and you have this picture of the cat
dangling with a very long neck going oh
we've got the cat you've got the neck
and you've got oh all in the same
picture and then you have the details
and it's
makes you very very difficult serve
again make sense explore ourselves
excellent I'm glad you I'm glad you like
yeah fantastic we're forgetting nectar