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Just another thing I remembered concerning memorisation: Normally, after you memorised something, you start forgetting. The curve for this looks like that for radioactive decay (or whatever "Radioaktiver Zerfall" is called in English) - after say, twenty days you only remember half of the items you memorised.
One counter measure for this is a special schedule for repetition:
After..
1 hour
2 hours
4 hours
1 day
2 days
4 days
1 week
2 weeks
4 weeks
1 month
2 months
4 months
etc.

With STARS you can probably skip the hour part, but if you're aiming for long term memorisation of stuff you don't use regularly, a repetition schedule would be a good thing. And another thing that could be added to the computerized version of STARS

Gotta sleep,

Jens






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Jens,

A computer program which I have not tried which uses a flashcard approach similar to that which you have described can be investigated at
www.supermemo.com

Regards,
moises






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Sorry for replying so late, 1st time looking at the board. This technique really does work. Before I knew that it was the technique, I taught myself how to do it by chance. I was able to memorize the equipment list and location of each item by compartment for an entire fire station,(six trucks) in one night. I recorded the items from a "map" of the trucks on to a tape, an then replayed the tape until I had it memorized. The other students were astounded by the precision of my recollection. I got 100% recall for the test. I'm now trying to learn PR to help my reading comprehension. Best of luck to all.






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Thanks everyone!! I'm very grateful for the input






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Hi Raanan.

Not sure about "Superlearning" but this really does work, and you don't need repeat it as long as you make your images clear. What you will need to do is base it on your own particular language database of the words and phrases that you have in your own language and in those in which your are proficient.

Here's what you do: Say, for example you want to remember the word "metamorphosis" in Japanese, which is "henshin". Break down the sounds of the words into components that mean something in your own language. For example, I took a picture of a hen (in my mind) and wrapped a long hairy caterpillar around the hen's shin. That way I have the sounds of the words and I even managed to link it to my symbol for metamorphosis which was a caterpillar. That was my choice, but you can use whatever images and sounds suit your background, language and culture.

Here's another one:

metabolism = shinchintaisha

I used my own body to remember this word:

shin - my shin

chin - well, you can have "chin" but the same word has a sexual meaning in Japanese, and research shows that anything to do with sex, death, humor and basically, more emotion than usual tends to lock in memories more easily.

tai - I imagines a necktie

sha - hmm, that was more difficult, but I know French too, so the word "chat" for cat which is pronounced "sha" went well. I had the cat standing on my head. I ran through the image a couple of times with the sounds and voila!

Can you imagine what I did with "kabushiki torihikijo" for stock exchange?

The thing to remember is that some languages you can link to your own easily. A Russian can see roots in Czech and Bulgarian. An Italian can see the roots in French and Spanish because they are closely linked. So in this case you learn be association.

Therefore, if you haven't got the links naturally, create them artificially.

One last one for Russian: Sobaka (pronounced "sabaka" more or less) means "dog". Someone I know thought up "It's a barker" to learn that one!

Bonne chance minna san!






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I see you alot on the postings. How long have you had the course? And is it working ? Any beginner tips for me ? Just got it yesterday.

thanks, Rick






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Originally posted by REGULL:
I see you alot on the postings. How long have you had the course? And is it working ? Any beginner tips for me ? Just got it yesterday.

thanks, Rick


Hi Rick.
Your posting was made just after mine so was it me it was intended for or for Raanan who put up the original posting? By the way, which course were you referring to?






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