vileru Wrote:How? Memory palaces are typically visually-based, so how exactly do you visualize grammatical rules? I'm sure I could come up with an example if I tried, but what you seem to have in mind is a technique that allows you to visualize any grammatical rule. I'm eager to hear about such a technique.
Also, how would you use the memory palace in real time? With a particularly vivid memory palace, you can often jump directly to the relevant locus and immediately access the memory you need. However, if you don't remember where the memory you're looking for is, then you'll have to start from the beginning of the palace, or at least a nearby locus, and continue sequentially. Obviously, you can't just wander around a memory palace mid-conversation, especially a massive grammar memory palace with hundreds of loci. Are there any practical solutions to these kinds of issues?
I'm also interested about what you mean by "basic linguistics". I assume you mean stuff like morphemes, phonemes, IPA, and theories/studies on language acquisition. But maybe I'm wrong and you mean stuff like the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, generative grammar, and semantics. Anyway, I don't mean to be fussy. I'm inquiring because I'm interested.
By Base Linguistics I basically mean a broad overview of linguistics, essentially the equivalent of a 101 and a 201 course: phonetics, syntax, lexology, morphology, and a spattering of grammar theory. So, basically knowing things like what is case, gender, active, passive, subjunctive, etc. Basically, enough to use a basic linguistic grammar with help of a search engine.
The basics of the memory place involves combining the loci with a grid based system. Each loci will be representative of one larger category, and each loci will have a grid. Each point in the grid represents a specific grammar point represented by a visual or auditory mnemonic, preferably using the target language. Grammar memorization is boring, so I basically, will outline the structure of a grammar into a note book and try to organize it into to some sore of coherent structure, so that patterns that are similar are next to each other. This takes a bit of time, and it is where using comprehensive grammars becomes useful. Because memorizing grammar is not particularly interesting, I then set an alarm clock for 20 minutes, and proceed to visualize and store the grammar (by paradigm or etc) and practice recalling that pattern. When I can recall it, without error, I then move on to the next piece. Repeat this until the alarm goes off and stop, the next day continue. I try to do it at night or take a nap after, if I do it in the middle of the day or morning. Doing this way, you should be able to memorize a language complete grammar system in a matter of months.
Now, this doesn't make you fluent by any stretch, but it means that you're straight up done with grammar. And since you're done with grammar, it makes using native material easier. And using lots of native material, leads to fluency or literacy.
As far as in real time goes, it starts slow, but by doing extensive reading and watching tv/movies, after you have the grammar stored you start to speed up. By doing this repeatedly , the walk becomes faster and faster until you hit the point where it becomes instinctual, and you no longer need to think about it it to access the rules.
Edited: 2014-09-25, 11:33 pm
