Tired Of Struggling To Learn Memory Techniques For Language Learning On Your Own?
Sometimes all it takes is a powwow with a good friend.
I know, I know …
Your friends think you're weird when you talk about your favorite Memory Palace and the crazy images that you use to memorize information like German phrases or other parts of language learning.
That's why I was so excited when John McPhedran and I started hanging out to talk about our shared passions:
Heavy Metal …
Movies …
… & Mnemonics!
You Don't Have To Memorize Vocabulary And Phrases Alone!
At least two cool things happen when you share your adventures in memory:
1) You learn how to use the techniques better yourself.
2) You come up with completely new approaches.
Or you learn to use the Major System for memorizing notes:
All of those things happened when John and I started hanging out, and so I'm excited to share with you our wide-ranging conversation about memorizing German, music and even a bit of Mandarin. (It's funny to listen back to this interview because since then, my approach to Chinese and how much Chinese I now know has thoroughly grown!)
Here's the full transcript of our discussion. To make it concrete for you, I've extracted 16 principles from the discussion you can start using right away. We're confident that you'll learn a lot and urge you to find a person to chat about your memory projects with. For starters, you can join the Magnetic Memory Method Facebook Group after downloading and listening to this episode of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast.
Method Number One: Invest In Memory Training
Anthony: This is Anthony Metivier. You're listening to the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast and today we have a real special treat John McPhedran. Did I pronounce that right?
John: Yeah.
Anthony: It's pronounced just the way it's spelled which is awesome. Well John, how do we know each other?
John: It's quite a funny story. About just over a year ago, I'll tell the whole story.
Anthony: Yeah, tell it all from the beginning.
John: Just over a year ago, I'm from New Zealand, and I have married a lovely German woman. I was in Germany last year, so this is my third time now, but I was here last year and I was about to fly home to New Zealand. Me and my wife, we were in a hotel in Prague, and I was just looking on my Kindle for stuff to buy on Amazon. I was always looking at German language books, things to learn German and better ways to do it, and I came across the Magnetic Memory Method mnemonics system for learning vocab.
I bought that and started reading. It just sounded really cool. It wasn't something I dove into straight away. I knew that it would take a while before I got around to doing it because I had some other priorities, but I always kept it on the back of my mind. Six months after that, I came back to Germany to live, and I knew that I had to sharpen up my German skills, so I looked further into the Magnetic Memory Method and ended up buying the product on Udemy. Through the message system there, I just start typing Anthony just questions that I had.
From reading his books, I knew he lived in Berlin, which is where I've moved to, and I knew that he also was a heavy metal bass player. So I thought it would be cool if I just put it out there just to you know just poke the fire I guess you could say. Just to see if he was close to where I was and just make
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago
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