Enviado em 09/04/2011

How can we easily memorize new words in a different language? Different

people have different techniques for memorizing new words but there are some
basic ways that we can make memorizing easier for us.The most important part
of learning new vocabulary is being able to remember it the first few times you
need to, after that a new neural pathway is created in your brain and the link is
already established. The first few times you use it though should be a little way
apart. It is not as effective using it 3-4 times in 30 seconds as using it 3-4 times
in 5 days. This usually causes the problem; because there is so much
information coming to us all the time, we don't retain everything, we only retain
what stands out, what seems significant, and because the new word may not
have triggered significance to us, (because it's a sound we are unfamiliar with
and tends then to be thrown out with the rest of the noise) we don't remember it
when we need to use it. This lowers our confidence in our ability, makes us
reiterate that "learning languages is difficult" and our brain switches off to
protect us from things that are difficult in case we fail at them which would
make us feel even worse! So how do we know what IS significant? Anything
that makes us feel an emotion, anything that snaps us out of our normal
autopilot filters and makes us take notice. Try it yourself. What did you do last
weekend? You will only be able to remember in detail the significant moments,
the things that stand out, the things that made you feel some kind of emotion
and that were different to the usual.However we CAN use this to remember new
vocabulary. By using the techniques in this video we can help glue the new
word to something we already know with emotion. We can create that emotion
by making the link unusual and adding sensory detail to make it clearer. Then
we will be able to overcome the biggest hurdle of new vocabulary, the first 3-4
times usage in context; once we have made these links memorable by gluing
them together with emotion we can come back to them in one day/2 days/3 days
and we can still remember them. If we can remember them when we need to use
them in context, each time we use them in context gives us confidence and adds
another layer of glue to the link until eventually we bypass the original image
we had and just go from the word in our own language to the word in the
foreign language, without even thinking about it.Give it a try, remember, there is
no right or wrong way to do this, only different degrees of effectiveness, and
what applies to you, everybody has their own links that will work for them, but
the more detail you add and the more unusual you make the image the easier it
will be to remember, so get creative and enjoy!