Lesson 47

Hi all,

I did this lesson almost twice, because of bad place to learn and lack of concentration. The lesson was about GMS.

I just learned the core basics of GMS - all of the things I knew and you should know also (and supposed to know). It was once again nice, short lesson - it took me around 45 minutes (x2). Unfortunately tomorrow will be a lesson about american law :(  so I suppose I'll strugle with it a little. Anyway - just 4 lessons till the end of fourth curse. Finally !!! I am doing also small improvements with MMaster.


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Lesson 46

Hi,

This lesson was also quite easy. After those lessons about medicine such lesson is a piece of cake. I had to remember the table of contents from 7th grade's history book.

There were no problems at all. Easy lesson - it took me less than 1 hour. Also I am still reminding myself also "48 laws..." and using MMaster.


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Lesson 45

Hi,

Today's lesson was quite short - it took me less than 1 hour. It was about "ways of introduction of medical products" - how to remember terminology informations....

I cannot say much about it - it was easy to do (to follow). Nothing special really. And I realized that I have just 6 lessons to the end of the fourth course (I'd say FINALLY :P ). I am very happy, specially because after finishing it I will know all of the secrets of GMS. And I'll start to remember books and stuff I want to remember. I play with MMaster twice a day - once in the morning and second time in the evening. I am a little bit more concentrated but still I am far from perfect.


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Lesson 44

Hi,

After planned little break, it's time to continue the course. This lesson was about heart - memorizing the medical text. I skipped the this complicated text (many of words I couldn't find in normal dictionaries) and I went directly to the exercies.

The lesson wasn't that bad as I thought - I did it in two days. I can now tell you some details about heart and veins, coronas, semilunas etc. which I don't care so much and don't want to remember. I am using aslo MemoryMaster twice a day (mornings and evenings) to improve my concentration and still I am repeating "48 laws of power". It is funny that sometimes during the day I am thinking like - ohh shit, this person is using now one of the laws...- or - I should go and say (don't say) this because in 48 laws... - and so on. Nice. I like when I know something useful for me, not like this 44th lesson, hehehe.


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The Matrix Method

If you are familiar with GMS a little - probably you've heared somewhere or read inside the course about the Matrix Method.

Bad news - as far as I know such method doesn't exist - and it is NOT in the X-files area, nowhere in the second GMS course. Sorry. It was just a hype. 

If something will change - I'll let you know. But still - it is worth to study this course.


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Lesson 43

Hi,

As for now - that was the easies lesson in fourth course. Or maybe the previous one was so hard for me, I don't know. Anyway, it took me something like 40 minutes to finish it. Not bad, don't you think so?

I had to remember 48 laws using Cicero. Of course to have it on reflex I need 3-4 days of repeating, fixing. Than it'll be inside my brain, it'll be a little... me? Nice :D !!!!!
Ciceros after that time will be ready to be erased again.

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Lesson 42

Finally finished!!!

I don't know why but I took me A LOT of time. Maybe because I am not a fan of history in general. But now I can tell you 5 pages from the textbook almost word to word about World War I.

I did my own image for Russia - "vodka" - not as Ruslan suggested - "double headed eagle". Sorry but I've never seen Russia as an eagle in my life (no offence). The images and connections are most important, not the politics.And that is what I see when I think of russians - vodka ( of course not always!) and beautiful women :D

I am doing also everyday MMaster and getting better and better (new day =  + 10 digits)
17 lessons till end of GMS course - finally !!!!!!


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Lesson 41

Hi all,

At the beginning my advise to this lesson is - the lesson  is quite hard and time taking - so... read the final "NOTE" at the end of this chapter to not lose so much time as I did !!!

Shit, I did 3 methods full and half of the 4th. From this lesson I feel the difficulty level is growing. I'll let you soon know if that's true. Ahhhh, and one more thing - train a lot the MemoryMaster. As Ruslan said on his forum:

Quote:

"to use GMS efficiently for learning one should have ability to memorize 300 items on the go. If you can’t memorize 300 items you won’t be able to memorize book or any complicated data fast and efficiently. "


He won't tell you this on the main page. I can remember now more less 120-130 items (it depends on a day). So... Don't give up guys, and let's work!!! If I can do it, all of you can.

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Lesson 40

Hello,

Yesterday I finished Lesson 40. It was more interesting than informations from the previous lesson (about rain worms and petrified oaks).

With additional exercise it took me around 1h30' . I think it is so long because of my break before. But now I am back on my track :P

Just one advise from me to this lesson. First - learn the connections between the images (all of them from the article), then connect them to the text.
And remember - additional exercise doesn't have to be remembered word by word the same day!

Good luck!!!

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Lesson 39

Hi all,

I am back. Sorry for the break here - but really this course is hard to follow. But finally - I finished Lesson 39 !!!

What can I say about it? I was hard - because, even now I still don't know, did I have to remember all of the text fragments (what I did) or only the sentences with colors.... Anyway... My advise to this lesson is - if you want survive it

you should learn first the main sequence (postcard then rain worm etc.) then start to learn not from the first three long texts but from 4th one, then 6th, 8th and 10th. Then learn from the shortest fragment to the longest one. That way this lesson will be much easier and shorter.

I am sure that advise will help you.


See yaa.


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How Are You doing? (the thing about Phenomenal Memory Course reviews)

Hey all, one more thing !!!

I'd like to hear about you and your progress with GMS. It is now possible to commet here without any login - I just discovered it few day ago.So ....

Don't only read the blog, do your stuff with GMS, ask questions if you have any (for sure somebody will answer any them) and review Phenomenal Memory Course for others. Good and bad reviews from all of the GMS students appreciated.


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Lesson 38

Hi,

I feel that today's lesson was a real beginning of the course - with not many pages and was not so much time-taking. I had to remember 9 sentences word to word and now, during the day, I have to check if I really did it. We will see :P

I am excited that FINALLY something is happening. Still I feel it should be much faster to remember all of this stuff - but hey... I have still 13 lessons to complete the fourth course. So that is all for today.


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Present for you - my 00-99 FCs

Today I have a good day so I'll make a present for you - why not? Here is my 00-99 FCs pictures that I see in my head . You can use them also [as I did] in Memory Master (copy-paste) or to print them as flashcards. 

Here are the links (I will not re-up them anymore so if you want them - download from links below ASAP). The password is of course     perfectmemorygms.blogspot.com 


http://www.multiupload.nl/8ENMXPAI8T

No unnecessary files there, no cash for me, 8 possibilities to download it. Use and Enjoy :D


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Lesson 37

Hello,

Today was very funny and quite short lesson about remembering 25 anecdotes. I enjoyed them very much (specially a joke about CIA agent). I am really happy that the old, good style of the course came back on place.

This lesson was quite similar to lesson 16, nothing new was here, small reminder I'd say. But as I saw a moment ago - the tomorrow's lesson will be veeeery different. Finally !!! :D:D:D


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Lesson 36

Hi all,

I am so happy - old good course is back - no more fillres such as the third course. And one more thing - you don't have to do the previous one if you're not interested. As for now (the first lesson of the fourth course of GMS)  it was mentioned that that you (and I) need only the first two courses completed.

 So I feel that I am on the right track again. And motivated. I've got again this feeling of believing that this course is not some scam taking a lot of time and so on...

Now about the lesson - I liked it a lot because it was a concrete one. Easy to follow and well explained exercises, few mistakes is here also ( they used "Ice" as FC for "October" - Why is that? - before [in Lesson 11] it was a pumpkin so I am using it here also (original FC). This lesson wasn't difficult at all.

After the third course I lost my momentum and concentration so probably I need to start again "Psycho-technical exercises". I had a break also with Memory Master - but today is a new day and I'll start everything all over again. :D



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Lessons 33-35 - THIRD COURSE COMPLETED

The fird course of GMS is... boring, badly written and a little out of date. I am happy and excited that it's over and finally - I will start (today or tomorrow) the coure of the course - "Textual Information Memorization" - (112 pages).

If you really want to learn a language try and google "Rosetta Stone" (advised also by Spawnofares). I've checked it lately and it is much more effective, not so boring and created in a lot better way - specially for the pronunciation and understanding - course. You can find it in many places in the web so there is no problem with getting it. But...check some ways of remembering the words by GMS - I liked it a lot.


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Lessons 30-32

Hi all,

Sorry for not updating this blog - it is mostly because of my BIG disappointment by third course of Phenomenal Memory Course. I will explain why - first of all it is very badly written - many words and sentences is not translated (I am doing russian as in the course). Second thing is the method of learning - because I cannot call it memorizing.

It is like this - find an image for a sentence, read it and repeat 8-10 times. It should be remembered and connect it to support image in Cicero Method. Then repeat it after 40 minutes, then... and so on. It is NOT memorizing it is learning with little help of mnemonics. In my case it doesn't work so fast and it takes too much time and also too many mistakes.

That is why I'll probably "skip" this course as Spawnofares did.


I will try to contact with him and ask what is necessary to know to continue the rest of lessons without this third course. It is because of those reasons I didn't write anything - I was fighting with myself so much to do any exercises... I am disappointed and I am trying to believe that this method won't be the only one to learn how to remember books etc.

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Lesson 29

Hello,

I am really suprised that this third course is not what I've expected - somehow I feel (still) disappointed because of advises like - "At first you are grouping for ..."  and so on. There is this rule of "four days" to remember everything I want from this course. It is working with words, but I really have very difficult time with remembering whole phrases in russian.Well...

As I saw already a little, I think the next lesson will be much more interesting (I deeply hope). For sure I'll remember those 8 sentences in 4 days by repeating it 3 times a day (as it is advised) - even stupid could do it. But it is not impressive for me (and so whole third course - comparing to the second one).


Tomorrow the middle of GMS course. I am really expecting to have at the end the phenomenal memory...

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Lesson 28

Hi all,

I can honestly say that the Third Course is the very messy. Before they said exacly what to do (do this then that and at the end check for the errors or else). Now is more like: try this, but also maybe you can try that, but don't forget that this and that is also good with that. Try,try, try... Well.....

I don't like 3rd course so much - I am not saying it is not working. The ideas are great. But for sure all is written in a confusing, messy way. Surely not only for the foreigners.
As you know I am doing russian course as it is in there. I think third course can be a little more difficult to understand, during studying other languages. My advice to you is - do the russian one!!! Just for training. You'll learn the way of learning - you'll apply it to whichever language you want.
And what, sorry???......You don't want to waste your time for such language? Well,hmm..... then remind yourself what did you during the 1st course. :P

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Lessons 25-27

I have been busy lately and I have a delay with GMS - well... it's life. Sorry. But now I'll post regularly again.

Anyway - Russian language is so funny - it is like to speak with dumpling in my mouth, plus those "shch" sounds and the others... The most timetaking for me is finding the way to say it correctly (how good it is to have in our times google translate !!).

Important hints - you have 2 lessons to learn the alphabet not one (25 and 26), lesson 26 is very easy to do and during lesson 27 don't forget to use mentioned earlier Google translate.

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Lesson 24 (Second Course) - COMPLETED

Hi,

Today I officially completed the Second Course of GMS called "Your First Data Base". I did the test in more less 20-25 minutes and I did one, really stupid mistake - I thought one number\picture and wrote down the other one... :P

Now I am very happy that I can remember so many dates, phones and informations, but on the other hand I am happy that tomorrow (or the day after tomorrow) I won't have to repeat it all over from the beginning. And I hope after I will be able to memorize much faster !!!

Today morning I did recollection from 1.1.1. as I wrote yesterday and after that I was so tired that I didn't do MMaster. But... for sure I will play with tonight and tomorrow. So the second level of GMS is completed. Now I cannot wait the time of "Textual Information Memorization" course - the CORE of GMS - from lesson 36. Of course it is no sense without basics to go directly to this lesson. Anyway... it's coming very soon :D


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Lesson 23

Hi all,

Today I completed lesson 23, which was very easy and short - it took me less than 30 minutes (because there were just few things to remember). Tomorrow in the morning I'll make a general repeat and in the evening or late afternoon I'll make the test (Lesson 24).

So few last words about the second course of phenomenal memory GMS... It was not so time taking as previous course, was much more interesting, stabilizing FC ( shit I need to do more MMaster, so tomorrow morning I'll do warm-up with FC cards, then MMaster few times and then finally total recalling from 1.1.1 till end).

After the test as a reward I think I'll make 1 day of break - this week I did 6 lessons (of course if I'll make tomorrow lesson 24 - what is sure :P ) !!!!!!

Now I hope I'll enjoy the test tomorrow.

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Lessons 21-22

Hello,

Yesterday and today I finished 2 lessons. They were quite easy for me. Lesson 21 was about statistics, phone codes and so on and generally was very easy. It took me less than an hour. I wanted to continue and was ready to study lesson 22, but the rule of the course is - one lesson a day. so I waited 24hrs to finish even the next one, which was even easier (don't be scared of number of pages). But you know what? It is amazing what is now for me easy, hahaha.

The last evening I did total recall from 1.1.1. and it took me a lot of time (+ fixing some forgotten connections). MMaster is behind again, argh....

Just one more lesson and finally the test :D

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Giordano Bruno - biography

I've just found 3 biographies of Giordano Bruno (the GMS system is based on his work). Also Gianni Golfera and his memory system is based mostly on Bruno's works. Check this out if you are a little interested in the mnemonics and history:

Biography no.1

Biography no.2

Biography no.3



Giordano Bruno - amazing medieval genius burnt alive... I hope you'll enjoy it.


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Lesson 20

Huge progress in MMaster and also quite easy lesson. I have some concentration problems, but from tomorrow I'll start to train myself as it was advised during the first course.

During this lesson the biggest problem for me was again english language - medicine in foreign language is twice more complicated !!! I had to find the understandable definitions first, then learn them. How good it is we live in times where to find the medical dictionary in the internet is not so difficult.

As I mentioned before somehow I have some lacks of concentration from time to time - and I am planning on dealing with it very soon. My imagination now is really sharp, sometimes I am shocked that I can see things in such details.

Lesson was also about remembering train timetable and lifespans of famous people - I can honestly say it took me maybe 5 minutes to do both of the exercises - piece of cake!

Now, I must do just 3 more lessons and then the test. I think it is the first time in my life when I am impatiently waiting for the test, hahaha......


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Lesson 19

Hello,
What a lesson !!! I wish I had GMS during my school years - I would be less stressful during during mathematics and geometry. Honestly I've never liked those schemes, patterns and so on... but with GMS it is a lot easier to remember all of them.

Of course now it's too late for me (I mean the school years) - but really - if you're still studying or having something that requires knowing all of this math-stuff :P - than GMS is for you - veeeeery helpful. It took me a little over 1 hour to do this lesson - because of my temporary lack of concentration. In one of the exercises there was to imagine a scales. And I remember that during my childhood it looked more less like that :

And when I imagined that picture I started reminding myself good, old times and how many things now is different. Anyway... Now left just 4 more lessons and the test. Nice :D  My MMaster progress is getting better and better. Still I've never had a perfect recollection, but I feel it will happen very soon. Also I am going to (in 1-2 days) change the timer from 6 sec. to 3 or 4. I feel it's now little too slow pace during connceting images.


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My few thoughts on how to study

Answering the question - what am I doing when I am not posting here is simple - I am not getting lazy, procrastinate or else - simply I am repeating a lot and using the material in a daily life situations.

I have also the advise for some of you on "how to survive" the first few lessons and "how to continue" ... This is very simple: change the pace of the lessons. Really it is no sense to make one lesson a day for a period of 4 days and then nothing for a week or so, then again one lesson for a week and then nothing again. Slower doesn't mean worse. It's better to spend an hour a day doing GMS and FCs then nothing or with too intensive (and irregular) pace. I am not saying it is not possible - it is - but really... The secret here lies in regularity. It is like going to the gym - you cannot take all of the strong exercises during the first day in gym (even after a week). You need a time - and same is with GMS. So do it's slower but better. I am doing the course with a lot of small steps - but still doing progress. Every day I am doing something - repeating, studying, training MMaster...
Tomorrow you'll find here my new post about lesson 19 and my quite big progress in MMaster.

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Lesson 18

Hello,

This is my raport on lesson 18. I can honestly say it was a fun for me to study this lesson. I don't know why, but even so... It was very interesting one. It took me around 1h15-20min. - of course also because of translating english words to my native. But you know what? Sometimes my native language is very helpful - there are some words which I am using to fix and connect faster and easier way than in the course. Yuppie :P
Lesson has a lot of pages and not a lot to do -  just I had to connect images in a good way and I had no problem here. I liked also both ways of remembering foreign words and signs - but sometimes I feel it takes too much time to do all this stuff - 1h15 for just few words... huhhh, hopefully at the end of the course I will be able (I have to!) to do it much faster.

I also did yesterday huge repetition from 1.1.1. with all the details and it took me over an hour. After I did some MMaster, but my results were not so good - my average (at 40) is 3.6  - Failed, like program is calling it :D

Still I'll put MM tomorrow at 50 (6 sec. as always) - and sooner or later -  I'll do finally all correctly (of course the better is sooner).
Just 5 more lessons and I'll finish the second course. Cannot wait!!!!


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Lesson 17 - COMPLETED

Hi,

I enjoyed this lesson, even so it was about astronomy in english. I had to translate and understand the definicions to my own language, than learn it in english. This lesson took me a little over 1h30 minutes, because of those translations - I think if person is interested in astronomy or (what I am certain) is from english speaking country - than this lesson will take much less time.

 

For me now the most timetaking is remembering everything from lesson 13 till 17... Buuu :( It is A LOT of informations which are surprisingly still there, in my head. I am also very happy, because the next lesson is about japanese language. I was always wondering how to remember those strange signs, hahaha. I must train more MMaster, I must !!! I was avoiding it because of my bad results there, but since today - I promised myself to do it as often as possible.                                                                    

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Lessons 15-16

Hi all,

during this busy for me week I've just finished lessons 15 and 16 but still tomorrow I'm going to finish also lesson 17 so the minimum of GMS will be done (3 lessons a week).

My head after lesson 15 was very tired and working like crazy machine :P

I still don't like history but the GMS' way is much easier - from beginning it seems kind of difficult and stupid-hard to remember that way. I think I must get used to the new-old-natural way of brain work. Still I didn't like so much the way of remembering people - I thought it'll be somehow easier, more "smart" way, so I fought a little here also.

Lesson 16 was a big fun for me mainly because of anecdotes at the end of the lesson. I liked the most the one about scotchman.

Both lessons took me around 2hrs each. I must start also MMaster again, because these days I had no laptop with me, just memo cards. My FC's are as for now almost perfectly memorized - I have only problems with 58 and sometimes 78.

From now on you can again expect from this blog regular raports on my progress (every 1-2 days).



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Lesson 14 - COMPLETED

Hi,

I just want to say that from today I am changing the study time of GMS. Why? Because I cannot get up in the morning :D  
That is the only reason. I completed  lesson 14 after quite long time (2hrs+ with some breakes). It was a little "not in my type lesson" because of studying history (which I am not a big fan), so I was fighting with myself a lot to finish the lesson. And also because of the new way of memorizing and reading information. Slowly, slowly but getting forward.

I am using also MMaster, and it's getting me sad - it's so fast (or I am so slow -)!!! I know it's possible to change the speed, but I want to do it in 6s. And I will !!!!
As for now I didn't have even once 100% recollection, still I must fix my FCs, I think. At the end of Lesson 14 it's written that now I should set the memorized data up to 40. But I'm still in my 20s :( !!! I'll change it today up to 25, tomorrow till 30. We'll see what will happen. Anyway, I'll let you know.



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Lesson 13 - the easiest lesson as for now

Hi,

I am happy to say that the first lesson of the second course is not so time taking - around 30-40 min. and is EASY.

At first, when I read what should I do I was like - "Oh noooo!!!! again it'll take so much time" - but then... it turned out to be very easy. I had only to be focused - no music (I never use it during that time), no TV, I closed also the window (no noise from the outside) and when I started making the exercise, suddenly I was suprised that it is over. "Shit, already? Yuppie !!!" :D

So tonight I'll try a little (or whole :D ) Lesson 14. I must also do more Memory Master and remember that number 68 is PaLm.


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Interesting books - less TV more knowledge

Yesterday I was looking for some informations about Daniel Tammet - and I've found in the net 3 interesting (for me) books:

First one is his autobiography - "Born on a blue day",

Second one is - "Moonwalking With Einstein" by Joshua Foer - who is claiming that Tammet is just mnemonis,

and the third one is - A. R. Luria's "The Mind of a Mnemonist- A Little Book about a Vast Memory".

Read books guys, please. There will be always some episode on TV...

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Finally !!!! Lesson 12 - (First Course) -> COMPLETED

Hi everyone,

Pfff, that lesson was tiring - and it took me two evenings - and one morning :P
The first day I spent on fixing FCs (getting better, baby :D ) and first few exercises from this lesson.
First 4 exercises were ok. The next day I completed ex.4 after 3rd attempt. During 2nd recollection I forgot just 3 numbers. Not bad !!! :D

But the ex.5 was killing me. The pace of 6 sec. is not yet for me... It took me maybe 15 min. to complete it the first time (I have still problems with FCs - specially no.58 - FiLm and 70-79, the rest is almost reflex-like). The second repetition took me...20 minutes, than even more - and I said to myself - "For tonight it's over". And I went sleep. Today, this morning, I completed it with a little struggle - I started from beginning and it took me 30 mins with one repetition - but I did it !!!!

One more thing - at the end of Lesson 11, you're asked to install "Memorization Master". But... how to use it is explained in Lesson 12 (last page) or here (hehehe) -> Cicero method, 100 support images. Today is Lesson 13... I hope it'll be fun.



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Lesson 11

Hello,

How's going? Yesterday I just finished Lesson 11. Most of the time I spent on exercise 4 and was a little angry (as I am not an american) with ex. 5. It was a little unfair that one, because I don't know "American Flag Day" and so on, and "National Mustard Day" made me laugh :D

I've noticed also that FCs which are having just one letter are easier to memorize - like 1-10-19 (N+...), 30-,90- because I have no doubt what the first letter is.

Ex.4 I did correctly after 3d time (first was learning it). I've got the link to "psycho technical exercises" (thank you, qsdf123). Here it is:


http://www.pmemory.com/student-area/addexercises.php


Also I've found some interesting movie on Youtube (once again,I have no time to watch it right now):

Enjoy :D



Just one more lesson to finish First Course - I am extremely happy!!!


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Ruslan's interviews

Here I got the interviews with Ruslan from 2008.

http://www.thedrpatshow.com/guests.php?guest=801#

I have no time to listen to it now but I hope you'll enjoy it :D

To listen the interview simply click the mike or the link above and there choose the archives from 2008.

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FCs... Arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

I've just finished (after repeating again and again) FCs with memocards. I usually have a problems with those from 50-80. So I tried to improve it a little more.

Now, I am going to learn a little more of Lesson 11 (and again new FCs - shit!!!).




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Wow !!!!!!

Look what I've found just a moment ago :

Unfortunately it is in German, but even so....

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How much time...........

Just a moment ago I've read the journals at the PMS forum. What i noticed is that the later lessons will take much less time. I   H O P E  so because this first course is really thief of the time.

BTW. I have no time during the mornings (today is exception), so usually I start to study around 10 pm. Until now - nothing to happened to me during my sleeping time.

Lessons 1-10

Hi. It took me almost 20 days to finish this lessons. Usually it takes beetween 2,5h for one lesson. Many times I am confused by the new english words which I don't know (english is not my mother language), like "nib" or "hacksaw" , "nail filr" or simply stupid like "awl", which I changed for "owl" , "beak" for "bow" etc.

Still I am extremaly happy that I am doing the lessons every day (usually I make 1 lesson for 2 days, plus FCs).I would like also to have the excercises for concentration from lesson 8. Can anyone could help me with that?

So from now I'll be writing everyday about my progress and problems (that can occur).

THX,