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How to Learn and Memorize Latin Vocabulary Using A Memory Palace

How to Learn and Memorize Latin Vocabulary Using A Memory Palace

Metivier, Anthony

Paperback

LatinGeneral EducationSelf-Help

ISBN10: 1494399695
ISBN13: 9781494399696
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Dec 7 2013
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Here's a fact most Latin students never learn:

The oldest surviving manual of memory techniques was written in Latin.

The Rhetorica ad Herennium laid out the Memory Palace method more than two thousand years ago, and Cicero and Quintilian trained with it as a matter of course. For a Roman orator, a trained memory wasn't a party trick - it was basic professional equipment. When you use a Memory Palace to learn Latin, you're studying the language with the very tools its greatest speakers used.

This book shows you exactly how.

You don't have a bad memory. You have an untrained memory.

If you've been grinding through vocabulary lists and flashcard decks only to find the words gone by the next chapter of Wheelock, the problem isn't your brain. Recognition is not recall. Drilling weak memories harder doesn't make them strong - encoding them properly in the first place does. That's the gap this book closes.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

  • Build a Memory Palace network based on the alphabet - a letter-location system that gives every new Latin word a permanent, findable home
  • Break Latin words apart at exactly the right points for encoding, so declensions and long compounds become easy to place and retrieve
  • Tune in on the sound and rhythm of Latin so new vocabulary starts to feel familiar instead of abstract
  • Use two simple relaxation techniques that clear the stress and mental static from your memorization sessions - often the hidden reason words refuse to stick
  • Carry the entire system over to any language that shares the Latin alphabet - Spanish, French, Italian, German - and adapt it, with a little imagination, to any other script

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