So Many Days Till Judgment, with Milton Acosta: Jonah 3:4

But what's a good bit of advice for people who are trying to learn the languages?

One of the things that we face when we learn new languages, and biblical languages in particular, is memorization.

Today there are many techniques and even apps and software and things that help us But maybe for some people, using old methods could work.

And one of those methods that were used way back in the Middle Ages and even before that was using places in a house or a room or even a path to memorize long texts or to memorize vocabulary.

So, for example, if you are in your house and you want to memorize words related to edibles, fruit or vegetable or whatever, you place those words.

words in places where they actually are in your house, in your kitchen.

So

would you write them on a little card then? Something like

that? You write the words, but you go to the place and you say those words looking at the places where you will locate those words in space and also in your mind.

The theory behind this is that things that we memorize need hooks in our brain where we hang them.

And so the hooks will be the bowl in the kitchen or the plates or the table, wherever we place those words there and in our minds, they will be located there.

So when we want to retrieve those words, that vocabulary, we go back to those places and then we We follow a pattern.

And sometimes it's better, at least in my experience, to memorize words in groups of three.

Rather than just a single word.

Right.

Maybe for some people it would be four or five.

But whatever works, as we learn biblical languages, besides or along with the methods that we are taught and the technology that we have, We need to find our own way of learning, how we learn better and how we memorize better.

So quickening the memory, and I love that.

I've heard that referred to as episodic memory in that you go back in your mind to, okay, when I saw that word last – I was in the kitchen, and I was looking at an apple, or I was looking at a plate or a bowl or something like that.

Exactly.

Yeah, so you remember that in context in a way.

Terrific, terrific bit of advice.

Nobody's ever mentioned that before, so that's very unique.