Quick Memorizing of New Words 

Hello everyone! 

As a linguist I must have good memory to learn  new words; therefore, I should always do something to improve my memorizing skills. 

Today I’d like to give you some tips regarding this issue. Don’t hesitate to try them out!

1. Making paper flash cards 

I consider this way to be the easiest one for me. It takes me very little time. I cut the paper into small pieces, and then, I write the word in English on one side of the card and the translation/definition on the other. It’s useful when I am to write a dictation and I don’t have much time for revising. I can learn at least 30-or even more- words in 5-10 minutes; therefore, I find this way of memorizing vocabulary really efficient. 

Furthermore, if I want to keep some words in my memory, I put the cards with them in the box and revise the words every week/month. 

This way of memorizing is my favourite one as I have a photographic memory; therefore, by writing words down I can easily visualise them afterwards. 

2. Using words as much as possible 

After learning some words, I need to use them not to forget. That’s why the other tip is about writing examples or rather a text using new vocabulary. It really helps me remember the words from the context as I look back on the text or examples which I wrote, and I can quickly come up with the word I learned.

All in all, I don’t use any programs(/apps) for learning new words-it takes too much time and is not efficient for me. It’s enough to flip through the cards or just skim through new vocabulary I wrote in my notebook. My kind of memory allows me just to visualise the image of written stuff and this is it. 

Hope it was somewhat useful!

Leave your comments if there are any questions!