That was based on the real life Kim Peeks. This guy could read one page of a book with one eye, and the other with the other eye, taking him 3 seconds to read 2 pages. He remembered everything he ever heard, saw, did, and on what day.
He remembered what the weather had been like every single day, and if you told him your birthday, he would work out what day of the week you were born on. But Kim Peek rain man was a savant who suffered a lot and was incapable of using language properly. He was just able to tell you facts. The savants i was reffering to, were less full of facts than Mr Peeks was, but far better off and would be able to learn and speak languages.
I doubt you could really learn a language that way, though it would be a tremendous help. However, if you have the mental capacity to memorise a dictionary, you should be able to learn almost anything you choose. When I was in the second year of medical school and were tested every Saturday we joked about memorizing the Manhattan phone book. It would have been better if we were savants. Yes, I believe it is. Jerry Lucas ex-basketball player memorized the Manhattan telephone directory, and he's no savant.
He has a series of systems for memorizing things, and he wrote a book with Harry Lorayne, who is also an expert at memorization, called, "The Memory Book".
I've read it and use some of the techniques, though I've never bothered to memorize telephone directories or dictionaries. I highly recommend the book, though. The gist of it is that you don't memorize a whole bunch of things, you only memorize two things at a time, with a link to tie them together. Then you link the 2nd thing to the 3rd thing, then the 3rd thing to the 4th thing, and it can go on indefinitely. I used to do a card trick where I'd have someone shuffle a deck of cards, show me the cards in order, then hide the cards.
I could tell them the order of cards all the way through the deck. I could also guess someone's card if I had them pick a card and put it back in the deck, because it would be out of order. It's a simple trick, once you learn it and practice a bit.
I personally could see little point in being able to remember all that information because you would need the intelligence to know how to apply that knowledge to benefit others and help yourself. Additionally, as far as it applies and extends to learning languages, I have found that while it takes a few minutes to look up a word that you don't know or have forgotten, in a dictionary, it can take months and even years to learn how to use verbs correctly which are the invaluable building blocks of any language Learn Spanish.
Sign in. I am casting a tv show and we are looking for people who memorized the dictionary - dancer, ABR 8, A WEEK!!!! I heard about this guy, too. Apparently he had quite a few languages under his belt before this, but he was definitely something special. Sorry, can't remember his name, though, Ian. Daniel Paul Tammet born 31 January is a writer with high-functioning autistic savant syndrome.
Whoa, I was a lot late on that response!! He can work out very very hard maths equations in his head and recite the number pi- 3. Read, read, read!!! One of the best ways to learn new words is by reading. If you are still unsure, look up the word in a dictionary and write it down in your own dictionary.
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Hi tsunami That is indeed a long word! What does it mean? It sounds like a medical word. Jonathan LearnEnglish Teens Team. I tried to use the words and I'm going to look at the words again after 24 ours, one week and month. Before,I read the word several times,until remember. After this tips I will make words cards and learn new words with my friends. I'm reading word many times and after repeats I remember this word.
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