🌎Memorize all Countries and Capitals with Memory Techniques: #1 Canada - Ottawa
Ordering The World Map
We begin by creating a artifial order on the map to easily identify a path of how we are arranging the otherwise random countries into an ordered list. This will allow us to learn all countries in our own artifical order by connecting them to the Major System, the most popular memory technique for numbers. This series will assume that you have already learned the Major System. But even without you will be able to connect country with capital and find it on the map. Our first continent is America, starting in the north. We will then go south in wavy lines. This is why we start with Canada today.
The Shape of the Country
The easiest way to be able to identify a country on the map is by associating the shape with something similar looking. These visuals don't work for everybody initially but usualy as soon as you can follow a certain description your brain will adjust and hence forth you will see it right away.Canada looks astonishingly like a whale from the side facing west with a tail facing east. There is even a fountain of water pressed out in the north where all the cluttered islands are. Can you see it, too?
The Major System Number
To order our countries and list them later one by one we will use amazing Major System to translate numbers into images.The image for number 1 could be tea.
The Name of the Country
Some countries are easier and more commonly known while others have difficult names and are rather unheard of. We will encode all of them into phonetically similar imagages which will help us to remember them much easier.Canada
Sounds like a can
The Name of the Capital
We are doing the same for the capital as we did with the country: We translate the name into a phonetically similar image.Ottawa
Sounds like an otter
Creating a Memory Story
The final step is to connect all four images for the shape, the number, the country-name and the capital-name. The beauty of this system is that you can connect these images in any order you like and it will be easy to remember any of the other elements by triggering one of the others. Try to visualize each story with your imagination and repeat the information a few times to make the memory stronger.A whale is bathing with an otter in a can full of hot tea.
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reeksreads like that.Or you can just do it the old fashion way and memorize them all.
What is that old fashioned way? Rote repetition? I doubt that many people can memorize all countries in the world in one day with that way. By the way: memory techniques are one of the oldest skills we know and what you refer to as the old way is actually the new stupid way. Let us not get manipulated in believeing that our brains are rubbish. They are awesome!
I'm a Canadian and this is the first time I hear someone saying my country looks like a whale. I'll remember that. I do see a beaver formed by the lake in the center, and Canada is a beaver country. I like the ranking you give my country but really it doesn't deserve it. Canada maybe looks also like a space shuttle and since everyone knows the arm of the space shuttle was made in Canada, then you won't forget it. Canada starts with a C which is almost a 0. I'd be more comfortable with that ranking.
It is not a ranking at all, it is merely an arbitrary ordering. You change that to whatever order you prefer.
USA is #1, of course. The rest needs work, I think.
Why? Because of their dominance with drones?
No, but you're almost there. It's because they are the first nation to put their flag on the moon.