Do you want to quickly remember information, lecture material or the names of new neighbors? The mnemonics we'll talk about in this article will help you.
What is this?
Mnemonics is a set of strategies that are used to develop and improve memory.
In addition, mnemonics help you remember something in a specific one-time situation, for example, the names of new friends, a phone number, or a shopping list.
Types of mnemonic techniques
There are different types of mnemonics. Let's talk about each of them.
Orthographic mnemonics
This type helps you remember how to spell words correctly using templates, phrases, or rules.
For example, an example of spelling mnemonics is a well-known poem that helps to correctly conjugate Russian verbs:
Drive, hold
Watch and see.
Breathe, hear
Hate.
And depend and twirl,
And to offend and to endure.
You'll remember, friends
You can't conjugate them to an “e”.
The mnemonic of remembering people
When you first meet a person, try to associate any striking feature of their appearance with their first or last name. For example, if your new friend's name is Misha Zaitsev, imagine him looking like a bunny but with teddy bear ears. We guarantee you will never forget his name after that =)
Illustrative notes
This is a very common method that many people use. Learn how to organize information visually by writing it down in a notebook and highlighting it in different colors or decorating it with cute illustrations.
Songs
Many people are good at remembering information, making it... a song! A well-known example is a song about the English alphabet that helps kids quickly memorize it.
If you search the Internet, you can find many examples of mnemonic songs. But if you need to remember something unusual, you'll have to come up with your own.
Stories
If you need to take certain things with you when you leave home and you're afraid of forgetting something, come up with a short story about them. It is important to mention each of the things in it, and then you will definitely be on top!
acronyms
If, for example, you need to remember the name of a new boss, try to come up with a word for each letter. For example, if his name is Ivan and he uses a nice perfume, imagine that when he mails, he signs “Sincerely Yours, Fragrant Chief”, and you will never confuse his name with any other =)
Acronyms can help you remember not only a single word, but also several words.
For example, the well-known phrase “Every hunter wants to know where a pheasant sits” helps to remember the order of colors in the rainbow.
And here's a more complicated example of an acronym:
“If you really need cartographic information, learn to read the alphabetical characteristics carefully.” It helps to remember the order of the cities through which the Trans-Siberian Railway passes when moving from west to east: Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok.
It's important! An acronym should make logical sense and be figurative so you can imagine what it's about.
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