What is the quickest way to memorization?

[Penguin]

I have a list of fifty terms french-english and I need to memorize them by tommorrow afternoon, any ideas?

[Jasujo]

Just repeat them over and over. When I had to memorize spanish vocab, that's what I'd do. I'd say the first to myself, then look away and say it. Then I'd look at the next word, look away and say the first two. Then look at the third, look away and say the first 3. etc. etc. Everyone's different, though, so you have to find what works best for you.

Last edited by Jasujo on Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Igg]

Cheat in your test.

[Susannahmio]

Just repeat them over and over. When I had to memorize spanish vocab, that's what I'd do. I'd say the first to myself, then look away and say it. Then I'd look at the next word, look away and say the first two. Then look at the third, look away and say the first 3. etc. etc. Everyone's different, though, so you have to find what works best for you.

Thats exactly what I used to do!
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Thats exactly what I used to do!
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[Drake Redcrest]

What works best for me is just writing them down. I have I guess what would be a type of photographic memory, and I can just remember stuff after writing it down.

[Xandra]

What works best for me is just writing them down. I have I guess what would be a type of photographic memory, and I can just remember stuff after writing it down.

Same. Everyone learns differently- I do well when I memorize things by writing them down over and over. Some people learn best through listening; by having other people tell them the things. For other's, it's saying it out load over and over to themselves.

Try them all, and see what works best.

[May]

I try to make up patterns or figure out tricks to make me remember them. If it's vocabulary words, I would try to use them as often as possible. The more you use the words, the more you'll remember what they mean. Maybe find a friend (if you have time) and have a conversation with them in French using your vocab words.

[Xil]

Memorizing within the valid context. So make a bubble chart, with the topic in the center and the buzzwords all around, then defining the buzzwords in relation to the big picture!

Most tests with keywords are meant to be used like this. Memorizing them out of context would be dumb because then A) you're taking the learning out of it & B) you have less of a net to understand them by.

Knowing the big topic is synergistic to knowing the aspects of it!

[Dragonfire]

For French, I usually say the words in French and English out loud, then if the words are in a table format (French on one side, English on the other), I cover up the English words, and using the French words I try to guess their English equivalent. Then I do the same for the French side, and all this time I'm saying them out loud. It usually works, although it varies from person to person.

[Twinkle]

Write your terms out using black ink on yellow paper. Apparently, it's easier to memorise that way.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

What you need to do is join a Psychology class where you'll be taught about memory over and over and over again which is mind-numbingly boring; so boring that the best ways to memorise something will be etched onto your brain until you die. I didn't like Psychology. Can you not tell?

Anyway, you need to use this thing called a rehearsal loop. Sounds like some kind of cool psychological term but it basically means this:

Repeat over and over again until you really can't take it anymore

[Pudding]

When I had vocabulary to memorize, I'd record myself saying the words in both languages, then listen to that while I worked on the rest of my German homework. Then, I'd turn off the recording and try to write the words out from memory.

Another thing that's really helpful is to make flashcards. Honestly, even if I never actually used the flashcards, the act of making them helped me to commit things to memory. Just remember to reverse them occasionally so that you're not just memorizing things from English to French or French to English--I studied that way once, and half the test was translating in the direction I hadn't memorized. *facepalm*

[Shakira_Shoyru]

Oh! I became very good at memorizing now. (Got a lot of texts to memorize in drama..)
Good tricks : (With a s, cause it's different for everyone)

1- Copy the words, write them down a few times, your brain will get used to them.

2- Make up a song with the words.

3- Record your voice saying a word, then leave a blank, and record the whole list that way. When you listen to it, try to say the next word and its translation in the blank that's right before, and you'll know very soon if you were right or not.

4- Read one sentence, repeat it. Read the following sentence. Repeat the two first sentences. and so along. (That works better with paragraphs than lists...)

5- Ask someone to ask you a word's translation once in a while.

I think these are the ones that worked the most, there's a few others that exists also, kind of just put together the ones that usually are the most effective.
I hope it works for you, good luck ^_^

[Rachel]

Is memorization a real word?

[Anoohilator]

Is memorization a real word?

Yeah - it's wikiable