5 Ultra Fun Ways To Super Boost Your Fluency

Program Notes

As you all know, I focus on memorizing vocabulary. I also  share some ideas about memorizing poetry and decks of cards. And other ways to awaken the possibilities of your mind. Lots of other ways.

But above all, my goal is to help people succeed in their target language studies. Or within their profession so that can excel with sophistication and ease.

The method I teach involves creating many Memory Palaces based on the alphabet. Each Memory Palace features a journey, some long, some short.

But memorizing vocabulary isn’t the whole story when it comes to becoming fluent in a language or profession. So in this episode of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast, we talk about 5 other ways you can get a superboost of fluency.

So let’s get started:

1. Expand your fluency by studying the background of your language or profession.

If you’re studying French, turn to books on the history of the language. Read up on the countries where French is spoken or its influence has been felt.  Look at how it has shaped cultural customs, political structures and its speakers.

The same is true for reading about, say, medicine. Look at the history of the field and its cultural impact. You can look at how medicine has influenced art, theatre, literature and other aspects of culture.

2. Read within the language itself.

This means not only children’s books. In fact, as discussed in the episode, these can be more destructive than helpful when learning a language. They often have non-standard words that can be hard to find in a dictionary.

Try online magazines and newspapers instead. You can find a breaking news story in your mother tongue and then look for it in the language your are studying. Write down some of the words and phrases you’d like to learn and use the Magnetic Memory Method to memorize them.

3. Test what you’ve memorized.

This is critical. Recall Rehearsal not only tells you how accurately you’ve memorized the material, but it also does at least two things:

a) It improves your memory abilities b) It depends your familiarity with the target information

In sum, the Method of Loci and Memory Palaces are best used by …

Using them.

4. Seek, develop and use motivation.

As discussed in this episode of the Podcast, motivation is a slippery fish. You don’t want to visualize goals that you can’t achieve. At the same time, you don’t want to encourage yourself to be an underachiever.

It’s kind of cliche to suggest this, but choose SMART goals. But the fact of the matter is that they work.

From Wikipedia, courtesy of Peter Drucker, SMART goals are:

* Specific. This means that they target a specific area for improvement.

* Measurable. You need to be able to  quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress.

* Assignable. You have to be able to assign the goal to yourself. If you can’t do it, who will?

* Realistic. If it’s impossible to achieve, the goal will be of limited use.

* Time-related. You should specify when you expect the results.

Using SMART goals will help you a great deal as you continue your fluency development.

5. Teach.

As people often say, something taught is something learned twice.

And it’s true.

If you haven’t externalized a subject you’ve learned, you haven’t really internalized it. Without teaching it, you haven’t fully processed it. Like good coffee, knowledge needs to be percolated and then shared.

The same goes for everything, including mnemonics and other work with memory techniques. into place and the theories lose their complexity.

As always, thanks for listening to the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast. If you’re looking for information about the Masterclass, it’s currently open. If you’re already a member, please login now to continue learning about how to improve your memory and the quality of your mind. You really can learn and memorize anything.

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