Learn a language with mind mapping

Mind mapping
Creating mind maps or mind mapping is using a paper and pencil to draw out maps of connections between two or more ideas. You can use mind maps to learn a language with grammatical ideas, vocabulary and even conversational ideas such as question and answer. Mind maps look like neurons and dendrites or trees. This is not by coincidence. It is a refection how natural structures create connetion, including your memory. Each person draws a mind map in a different way. Some are clean and orderly others seem to be pure chaos. It does not matter. Your style of mind mapping is your style. You can use colors, pictures or whatever you want to make your mind map beautiful or fun.
Mind mapping and language learning
For me personally, I use mind maps to learn target vocabulary in a language. These mind maps often contain phonetics, and word building, but most important categorization. I am not good at drawing pictures, but I add a few once in a while. My mind maps are more like mazes with starting and ending points and many entrances and exits.
For example I will have a mind map with ten entry points, let us way for example connected with transportation vocabulary. For transportation, vocabulary I might have choices or verbs or nouns or adjectives connected with transportation, this route on my mind maps could wind all over the place, with further subcategories and pictures of brides and roads until I find an exit.
Why mind mapping works
I do not believe there are any magic pills to learn a language, except maybe with music; however, I think the act of mind mapping is what helps you learn a language. Creating drawing and planning your mind map is a fun break from learning a word list. Physically drawing the words and thinking about it is why mind mapping works. Maybe there are other reasons, but I have been learning and teaching languages for years and I believe every-way is a good way to learn a language and there are no great secrets other than putting the time in. However, if you enjoy what you are doing than the time you spend will seem like play or no time at all. Further there are efficient ways to learn a language and inefficient ways to learn a language. I think mind mapping is one of the more efficient ways to learn a language.

D5 SECE The future Chapter 29

Towards a radiant thinking and mentally literate world
FOREWORD
Trends to expore the most magic organ in this world has been shown that there will be a future for human based on our MENTAL LITERACY
MENTAL LITERACY
ALL these trends reflect the increasing international drive towards Mental Literacy defined thus:
Standard and numerical literacy involve an outstanding of the alphabets of letter and numbers and their infinite permutations and conbinations. Mental Literacy is an understanding of the alphabets of the biological and behavioural aspects of your brain,including especially the cortex,the brain cell,learing,memory and creativity.

1. The mental literate individual
2. The mental literate family
3. The mental literate organisation
4. The mental literate society
5. The mental literate civilisation

Radiant Thinking -Radiant future

In our increasing understanding of this incredibly complex and mysterious organ, in our increasing understand of family of mankind -ourselves and our radiant fellow humans- and in our increasing understanding of the inter-connectedness and relativity of all things,lies our hope for future.

Example two of shor presentation

short exmaples of new ways of thinking

D5 secA Problem solving using mind map

Problem Solving with Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping
Problem solving is one of the key skills required to be successful at work, but finding speedy and imaginative solutions to the challenges and difficulties that inevitably arise is not an easy task. When confronted with a problem, all too often, we try to 'force' our brain into coming up with a solution. Not only is this a poor way to resource our creativity but this approach can result in stress while our mind wrestles with the problem. Straining your brain in this way will not result in a satisfactory solution. Alternatively, Mind Mapping is a far more effective way to attain clarity and answers. It will help you view the problem as a positive challenge, an opportunity to demonstrate your skills and flex your creative muscles.

D5secA Personal use of SELF-ANALYSIS

It is helpful to begin with a 'complete picture'self-analysis MIND MAP,which includes as many as possible of your major characteristics and personality traits.

Here are four stages:

1. Preparation of your environment


2. Quick-fire MIND MAP burst


3. Reconstruction and revision


4. Desicion making

CREATIVE THINKING D4 chapter 16

Foreword
Gain major insight by expanding your creativity Mind Mapping method.
AIMS OF CREATIVE MIND MAPPING

1. To explore all the creative possiblities of a given subject
2. To clear space for new ceative thought
3. To generate idears that result in specific action being taken,or physical reality being created or changed
4. To encourage more consistent creative thinking
5. To create new conceptual frameworks whithin which prevoius ideas can be reorganised
6. To capture and develop'flashes' of insight when they occur.
7. To plan creativity

BENEFITS of this MINDMAP

1. utilise all the creative thinking skills
2. increase the probablity of gainng new insight
3. reinforce and buttres the incubation process,increase the probability of the generation og new ideas.

D4 Chapter15 MEMORY

Foreword
Begins with a colorful Greek myth which has much to tell us about the relationship between MEMORY ENERGY and CREATIVITY.
The muses reprent creativity.Each is the goddess of a particular art:

• Erato-love poetry
• Calliope-epic poetry
• Euterpe-lyric poetry
• Urania-astronomy
• Polyhymnia-hymns
• Clio-history
• Thalia-comedy
• Terpsichore-dance
• melpomene-tragedy

Benefits of MNEMONIC MIND MAPs

1. Utilise all the cortical skills,thereby enormously enhancing the probobility of recall
2. active all level of brain
3. Intrinsically designed to aid memory
4. Reflect the creative thinking process
5. They provide a sure fire method of remenbering,thus increasing the individual's confidence,motivation and gneral mental functioning.

D4 -Chapter 13~14 Organising your own and others ideas

Note-making
It is the process by which you organise your own ideas in either a dyadic or polycategoric way.It helps tremendously with decision-making.
Basic ordering branches:

• Basic quetions:what why when where how who which
• Divisions: chapter lessons themes
• Properties:characteristic of things
• Hisory:chronological sequence of events
• Structure-forms of things
• Function: use for what?
• Process: how it works
• Evaluation: how good things are
• Classification: belong to what
• Definition: means what
• Personalities: roles people have

Benefits of polycategoric mind maps for note-taking

1. Learining far more quickly
2. Images quickly translated into essays
3. A growing delight in accumulating knowledge
4. A permanent and easily accessible record of all your significant learing experiences

Division4 SYNTHESIS -----Chapter 12

Chp12~17

This division explores the many distinct tasks which can be successfully accomplished using MMs

Chp12 Making Choices

Foreword

By using the mind map to set out your needs and desires,priorities and constraints,you will be able to make decisions based on a clearer view of the questions involeved.

General decision-making

Helps you to balance competing factors

The mind map does not make the choice for you.However it dramatically increases your ability to make the choice by highlighting the key trade-offs.

Simple decision-making

It refer to the Dyadic Decisions (means two in latin) ,they usually involved simple chioce such as yes/no,better/worse,stronger/weaker... and are first stage in creating order!

Journey through the mind of a mind mapper.PART 3
Making decision after the mind map finished drawing.

1. Process-generated

In many cases the process of Mind Map itself generates the solution by gathered realisation of the answer you want.

2. Numbering-weighting

If the decision is still not clear ,after process mind mapping,the number weighting method according its importance can be used.

3.Intuition/Superlogic

GUT FEEL if above methods cannot work .

In a flashthe brain completes the most astounding mathematical calculations,considering trillions of possiblities and permutations ,in order to arive at a mathematically precise estimate of probable success which might be subconscious expressed as follows:

"Having considered the virtually infinite database of your previous life,and integrated that with the trillion items of data you have presented me with in the current desicion-making situation,my current estimate of your probability of success is 83.7862%"

The result of this massive calculation registers in the brain,is translated into a biological reaction, and is interpreted by the individual as a simple "GUT FEEL".

4.Incubation

Relex to incubate an idea.

It is advisable that you use this technique since it is in this kind of situation that your brain harmonises and integrates, and as a result, tends to make its most meaningful and accurate desicions.

5. If weightings are equal

COIN-TOSSING to find which one you really prefer!

DEALING WITH INDECISION

Thinking about these things:

1. HISTORY origins and how did it develop?
2. STRUCTURE How is it constructed?
3. FUNCTION How does it work?
4. ROLE What does it use for human world?
5. CLASSIFICATION How does it relate to others?
6. Then implementing your ideas rather than continue thinking about the choices

Benefits of this MIND MAP

1. Bring all the issue into clear focus
2. Utilise the full range of cortical skills,resulting in a more comprehensively considered decision
3. Use of color ,dimension and images to bring more creativity
4. Images to bring vital emotional responsed into decision-making process
5. process resulting method
6. Environment for incubating
7. By clearly reflecting the internal decision-making process,they able the individual to remain focus on all the element.

Division 5 USES_chp18

In this division we explore the many practical ways in which you can use your newly acquireed Mina Mapping skills.
Preview

• Section A Personal

Self-analysis

Problem-solving

The Mind Map diary

• Sec B Family

Family study and story-telling

• Sec C Educational

Thinking

Teaching

Creating the master mind map

• Sec D Business and Professional

Meetings

Presentations

Management

Computer Mind Mapping

• Sec F The Future

Towards a Radiant Thinking and mentally Literate World

Sec A chapter 18 SELF-ANALYSIS

Foreword

This chapter investigates how mind map can be used to give you a greater insight into yourself or help others analyse themselves.

Self-analysis using Mind Maps

Mind Maps can be an enormous help in clarifying your thoughts and feelings.Since a MM uses the full range of cortical skills it gives a comprehensive reflection of the self.Having seen this clear external image of yourself,you are less likely to suffer the unhappy consequences of making decisions that go against your nature and your real needs and desires.

It is helpful to begin with a "complete picture"self-analysis Mind Map,which includes as many as possible of your major characteristics and personality traits.

4Major stages

1Preparation of your environment

Caring for yourself will make your self-analysis more open, complete,profound and useful.Following recommendations given in Chp 10.

2Quick-fire Mind Map burst

Allowing a full and free flow of facts,thoughts and emotions,working at speed will make it easier to express all your ideas,whereas attempting to be too neat and careful is likely to inhibt the spontaneous truthfulness needed for such an exersice.

3Reconstruction and revision

Useful Basic Ordering Ideas include:

• Personal history-past ,present and future
• Strengths and weaknesses
• Likes and dislikes
• Long-term goals
• Family and friends
• Achievements and Hobbies
• Work and home
• Emotions and responsibilities

Colours,shapes,symbols and images are especially helpful in expressing this aspect of your personality in your mindmap.

Directions may be:

• learning
• knowledge
• business
• health
• travel
• leisure
• culture
• ambitions
• problems

This final MM is the external mirror of your internal state.

4,Desicion Making (chp 12 detialed)

Reviewing the past and PROJECTING FUTURE GOALS

Recommend you do self-analysis MM at the beginning and end of any important phase in your life.

Benefits of self-analysis Mind Maps

1. Provide a comparatively objective perspective on self
2. Full picture of the individual by utilising all the cortical skills
3. Macroscopic and microscopic views of the individual
4. easy to plan accurate future
5. Permanent record to gain a truer perspective
6. Help others to do
7. Make it easier to express emotions and incorporate them in self-analysis.

Foreword and Instruction in week1

1.FOREWORD
When there is a problem,there is a key or at least a will attempt to slove it. Likewise, the exploration of a efficient,easy and natural way of thinking is comming from a dilemma.
As he stated:Like others around me ,i was going through the typical student's "pilgrim's progress":the slow realisation that the volume of acagermic work is increasing and that the brain is starting to buckle under the strain of all the thinking, creativity,memory,problem-solving,analysis and writing required.Again like others, I had begun to experience not only diminishing returns nut accelerating non-returns.The more I took notes and sudied,the less,paradoxically,I seemed to succeed!
The logical progression of either situation led me to catastrophe.If I cut down my studying,I would not absorb the necessary information and would consequently do progressively badly;if I were studying harder,making more notes, putting in more time,I was similarly spiralling into failure.
As a result, he assumed the answer must lie in the way he was using his intelligence and thinking skills. However,there were no relevent books about how to use the brain rather than operate it medically.
For if such books were not available,then he had happened upon virgin territory of the most staggering importance.
He began to study every area of kownledge such as psychology,the neuro-physiology of the brain,semantics,neuro-linguistics,information theory,memory etc. which would help shed light on the basic questions:

• how do i learn how to learn?
• what is the nature of my thinking?
• what are the best techniques for memorising?
• what are the best techniques for creative thinking?
• what are the best current techniques for faster and efficient reading?
• what sre the best current techniques for thinking in general?
• is there any possiblity of developing new thinking techniques or master technique?

Gradually he realised that the human brain functioned more effectively and efficiently if its various physical aspects and intellectual skills were allowed to work harmoniously with each other,rather than being divided.

The tiniest things produced the most significant and satisfying results.For example,sinply combing the two cortical skills of words and colours transformed my note taking.The simple addition of two colours to my notes improved my memory of those notes by more than 100 per cent,and perhaps even more importantly,made me begin to enjoy what I was doing.

MIND MAP was ready for show.

2,Introduction

PURPOSE

You will discover some astonishing facts about the brain and its function,and will take your first major steps on the path to freedom of mind.

• To introduce you to a new concept in the development of thought--Radiant Thinking
• To introduce you to the revolutionary new tool that allows you to use Radiant Thinking to best advantage in all aspects of your life-The Mind Map
• To give you a profound intellectual freedom by demonstrating that you can control the nature and development of your thinking processes,and that your abillity to think creatively is theoretically infinite
• To give you practical experience of Radiant Thinking,and in so doing to raise sinificantly the standard of many of your intellectual skills and intelligences.
• To give you a sense of excitement and discovery as you explore this new universe

THE MIND MAP BOOK AND YOU

You who now read these words are doing so with your own unique personality and uniquely developed set of learning skills.You will therefore progress at a pace and rythm particularly suited to you.In the light of this,it is important that you measure yourself primariliy against yourself. The examples contained within the book should be used not as standards that must be attained but as beacons to guide you towards your goal.

The Mind Map Book - Reading Schedule_WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE EXPANDING FREEDOM OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

1.STURCTURE OF THE BOOK
The book has been arranged in six major divisions and according to its inherent logic flow,all of the divisions can also be rearranged in three parts:
1)The fundamental theory of RADIANT THINKING which is talking about the Natual Architecture --Brain. These will be discussed in DIVISION 1;
2)The Guiding Principle of the Mind map from the basic brainstorming exercise to add your personal style to create your own Mind Map. These will be explained in DIVISION 2&3;
3) The varied applications of the Mind Map. In the following divisions(4&5),a detailed instruction including both explainations and examples will be given in order to show the bright future of using the Mind Map and the Radiant Thinking.
NOTE:Division 6 is the addenda of this book so that this division will be excluded from the reading plan.
2.TIME TABLE ACCORDING TO WEEKS
The first 4 weeks will talk about the first part of this book in order to get a deep understanding of this thinking method;
The next 5 weeks ,which is from the week5 to week9,will mainly study the key principles of how to draw a mind map with radiant thinking.Moreover ,to add my personal style into it;
The last 4 weeks ,from week 10 to week 13,will learn to read mind map in varied application areas firstly and try to create my own mind map due to what I learned from this book.
3.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tony Buzan
Tony Buzan is the originator of Mind Map,the president of the Brain Foundation,Founder of the Brain trust and the Use Your Head Clubs,and the creator of the concept of Mental Literacy.
Buzan was born in london , is an alumnus of Kitsilano Secondary School, and received double honors in psychology, English, mathematics and the General Sciences from the University of British Columbia in 1964. He is probably best known for his book, Use Your Head, his promotion of mnemonic systems and his Mind Mapping techniques. He launched his own software program to support mind mapping called MindMap in December 2006. His website, Buzan World, cites trademarks on the phrase 'Mind Maps' which he has registered in many countries. Who knows, if you buy his books you too might get a double first and have your own self-promoting Wikipedia page.
Following his 1970s series for the BBC, many of his ideas have been set into his series of five books: Use Your Memory, Master Your Memory, Use Your Head, The Speed Reading Book and The Mind Map Book. He has since authored or co-authored over 100 books.
Most of his teaching generally divides up into: general awareness of the extensive capabilities and capacities of the brain and its functions, memory skills, reading skills, Mind Map note-taking and note-making, creativity, and how brain function can be improved over time into old age.
Buzan developed Mind Mapping whilst at university, out of the frustration that traditional notes took up so much time to create and review. He has argued that Mind Maps are an efficient way to take notes from lectures or books. His brother Barry Buzan, who co-wrote The Mind Map Book, suggested the technique could also be used to capture notes from one's own creative ideas and is useful in business.
As a popular psychology author, Tony Buzan has written on subjects relating to the brain, genius quotient (GQ), spiritual intelligence, memory, creativity and speed reading. He is the founder and President of the Brain Foundation (not to be confused with various medical-related bodies with the same name) and also the Brain Trust Charity, the World Memory Championships and the World Championships of the Brain. He was a co-founder of London's Mind BodySpiritFestival as well as the Mind Sports Olympiad.