【明報專訊】Method of Loci has been under discussion for more than 2000 years; there have been other names like: memory palace, mind palace etc. Basically, it is learning and remembering details by association: to prepare a skeleton of a series of unrelated details. The terms are constantly referred to in crime fiction featuring Holmes, Hannibal, and Patrick Jane (Mentalist series). In the past decade, Timothy Doner and Anthony Metivier mentioned its use in language learning for ESL/EFL students; they suggested that the method is particularly useful in learning the German language.