I've just found this article.... It gives a very good summary of the ideas RTK and KanjiTown is based on: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/...crets.html

If for nothing else, it's great to give to friends and family an idea of what these methods are about

Great read, thanks.

I'd be interested to see whether or not the whole idea of creating a memory palace could work for kanji. I'm sure it would. Try doing them 3 at a time like the author, or go up to 5-10 at a time and put them in a room with a crazy image. Hell, we already do the crazy images, now we just have to use more spatial memory and a similar setting.

"I'd be interested to see whether or not the whole idea of creating a memory palace could work for kanji."

Our memory palace is the Kanji itself. So it's unnecassery to create another memory palace for the Kanji, unless one wants to remember a list of Kanji ordered from A to Z, or ordered by radicals, on yomi. If body parts are used: mouth radicals in mouth, rice field radicals in brain etc... But since all we want, or at least I do, is recognize the Kanji, not list all Kanjis with brain radicals etc.

Great article by the way.

Nice one, thanks.

There are a few variations on this for learning kanji readings. Search for 'Kanji Town' or the 'Movie Method'. The only real downside I can see is that it is quite a daunting task, as far as creating the images go.