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After 12 hours of German classes* and a few 10-mile walks around Vienna, I think I have come up with a mnemonic system for remembering both the gender and pluralization of German nouns.

I spent a week in my German class before attempting to create a memory town. I wanted to understand the structure of the language a little before starting to memorize things.

For example, one of the difficulties of learning German is that nouns have three genders and about 12 ways to pluralize the nouns. All of that has to be memorized for each word. [click to continue…]

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Last week I was so busy that I wasn’t getting much sleep. This week I have the same workload plus an intensive German course. [click to continue…]

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How to Join Our Google Plus Hangouts

by Josh Cohen May 5, 2012

We hold live discussions about memory techniques on Google Plus Hangouts. The schedule can be found here. To join our Google Plus meetups, login to Google+ and go to my Google+ Profile at the scheduled times and you’ll be able to join the hangout. There is a limit of 10 attendees at a time, so [...]

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Starting an Intensive German Course

by Josh Cohen May 1, 2012

Since I’ve just moved to Austria, and I don’t speak any German, the company that I work for is sending me to a German language course in the evenings. It will be 15 12 hours per week in class plus homework. [Edit: I found out that the course is only four days per week, so [...]

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The Past Year’s Journey and My Memory Training

by Josh Cohen April 15, 2012

The past year has been really crazy for me, and I don’t think that I’ve described the complete story in one place. I thought that I would summarize the year and provide an update on my memory training.

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USA Memory Championship: “Hope for Humanity”

by Josh Cohen April 1, 2012

Here is one more video of the 2012 USA Memory Championship that includes footage of Majid Fotuhi’s presentation, and the 2012 USA Memory Champion, Nelson Dellis, describing his 3-2-2 PAO system:

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Are You a Super Face-Recognizer?

by Josh Cohen March 31, 2012

Some people have an inability to recognize faces–even their own faces; others can remember an extraordinary number of faces, far beyond the ability of most people. First, take the super recognizer test, below!

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Dominic O’Brien Demonstrates the Journey Method

by Josh Cohen March 30, 2012

Dominic O’Brien demonstrates the Journey Method on YouTube for a company called Cottages4you:

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Mental Athletes: The Sport of Memory – Full Nelson (Video)

by Josh Cohen March 30, 2012

I hope you’re not getting tired of all the coverage of the 2012 USA Memory Championship yet! Here’s another video:

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More News Coverage of the 15th USA Memory Championship

by Josh Cohen March 28, 2012

Here are some more news articles about the recent 15th USA Memory Championship in New York City:

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