Sometimes you can find a personal association that doesn’t have any known meaning, but that works for remembering the data. The Shaper System for numbers is another example. So a mnemonic image for the letter A could be an ox. Visual ResemblanceĪ mnemonic image can be created by visual association.įor example, the letter A originates from a Cretan and Phoenician form where the point of the A points at about 8 o’clock, which makes it resemble an ox’s head. klopodi - to take steps towards doing somethingīy mentally organizing the group words as “to try” and then picking apart the differences, it makes the memorization easier.Īnother example is to learn related words at the same time.provi - to try to do something, or attempt/test something. If you group together related items, you can often memorize them by taking note of the differences between each of the items.įor example, in Esperanto there are several words for “to try”: Spellingįor example, the French name Marquet looks like the English word market even though they have different pronunciations. If you had to remember the word ate, you could convert it into eight and then use your mnemonic image for the number 8. Homophones are words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings. The second part, “kalo”, could be Frida Kahlo and/or the word “hello”, which would also remind you that the accent comes on the last syllable of the word. The first part, “para”, could be something like: Break the sounds into parts: “para” and “kalo”. The Greek word for “please” is parakalo (παρακαλώ). Or you could imagine that the entire class of monkeys is missing and the teacher-monkey is wondering where everyone went. Picture a classroom of student monkeys where one chair is empty - the monkey is missing. The Esperanto word, manki means to be missing. The image(s) helps you get past the tip of the tongue effect. If a word has multiple syllables, sometimes you only need an image for the first syllable or two. Syllablesįind an image based on similarity of the syllable sounds. In this section, we’ll look at some general techniques for doing that. How do you turn a word like “freedom” or “adumbrate” into a mnemonic image? When first starting out with mnemonics, it can be difficult to come up with mnemonic images for abstract information. Tip: for more details on memorizing words, you might want to also read our article on How to Memorize Vocabulary Words.īelow, we’ll take a look at some of the ways that you can come up with mnemonic images for difficult words or facts. Here’s the final mnemonic image that represents the word pugnacious and its meaning: a nauseous pug who is always looking for a fight. You can make the images playful and weird if it helps you remember them. To remember that pugnacious means “combative nature”, you can picture a nauseous pug that is always trying to start a fistfight with someone. Your combined mnemonic image is now a pug who is nauseous. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear that is the word “nauseous”.Ĭombine the two images that represent pugnacious: You can then find a mnemonic image for the second half of the word, -nacious. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word pugnacious is the sound “pug”, which is a kind of dog. Let’s say that the vocabulary word is pugnacious, which means “having a combative or quarrelsome nature”. Remember that a mnemonic image is just a picture that is meant to remind you of the word (or whatever fact you’re trying to remember). If you need to remember a vocabulary word while studying, you could create a mnemonic image for it. Tip: to find images for all numbers, check out the Shaper System. That picture in your mind of the drum is the mnemonic image that can help you recall the number “10” later. The “1” is the stick, and the “0” is the drum. Example 1: Remembering a Numberįor example, if you want to remember the number “10”, you could imagine that it looks like a stick beating a drum. Mnemonic images are the base for many other memory systems, and are part of how the memory palace technique works. Pictures are easier to remember than abstract information, so by converting the information into picture, it increases the chance that you’ll be able to recall it later. A mnemonic image is a mental picture that represents a fact that you want to remember.
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