How Do You Memorise Something?

Ok, so I've got a Spanish speaking test coming up next Wednesday and I need to learn a 350-ish word speech about holidays which may not sound like much for some but I've only got a short time to learn it. How would you go about learning it?

@thedandyman: I don't. I escape it. XD

@rocketraccoonthingy: Ah, if only I could but my Spanish teacher would find me and kill me if I didn't do it, she's crazy like that.

@thedandyman: Call 911

As Gumball Watterson would say, I swallowed it and then I memorized it.

Math tastes terrible, btw.

@rocketraccoonthingy: I reckon she knows some crazy nerve strikes, hits hard enough to break steal beams and can dodge bullets so she'd wreck the police. Plus I'd call 999 rather than 911, England ftw.

@thedandyman: Oh so you're ingrish then. Awesome! Hit the motherf*cker in the face with a baseball bat. That'll do it. lmao

Get off Comic Vine and start studying.

Don't try too hard to think about memorising it, just learn it. Go over it multiple times, speak it out loud as well as reading and writing it. Keep your mind calm and relaxed.

fall in love with Spanish then let it break your heart.

Repeat it over and over again.

Study before you go to sleep, then do it again when you wake up.

It actually works really well. To add to this: eat something small, like an M&M or something along those lines, both times. It's a sensory connection between events.

The sleeping advice above is good advice. Other basic things like stay hydrated and eat well and just cram, focusing completely. When I learn speeches in other languages don't focus on spelling, just on sounds.

Get someone who will listen to you while you are checking your knowledge and pointing out where you missed a spot ::D

Find someone who speaks Spanish and spend time just going over those words with them.

Put sentences onto flashcards and repeat them while looking into a mirror. Weird but itll work

Read it.

Ask Wenjun Chew

Don't study for too long. You remender the first things and the last things and will tend to forget the stuff in the middle if you are studying for extended periods of time.

Studying for too long is actually a detrimental to you.

The best way to go about it is study for a half hour maybe and hour not any longer and take a break! Walk around make something to eat. You need to give yourself time to absorb what you just learned. Then go back and study more. You will just burn yourself out sitting there for too long.

Also the day before you have to present, write a test or whatever get a good nights sleep. You will find youre able to recall stuff and will just preform A LOT better vs if you are tired.

and good luck!

Hmm I actually might try this. Usually my memory is well enough so that I can study a few minutes before a test and get most of the info i need.

If you eat something with a distinct flavor, then try to remember the "feeling" (it's hard to describe, but it's more than recalling the taste; it combines taste, scent, touch, and a bit of sight due to reading while eating) of the flavor, you can almost picture the words on a page. It isn't a true photographic memory, but it's a great technique that I have used during exams. I've done that on tests and it actually helped me to recall what I read.

This works for most subjects. Doesn't work as well for things like math, where it's more about application than memorization. It kinda works for foreign languages, but that also requires more practice rather than just raw studying. Still, it's good to know.

This is true, too.

Get a Hispanic friend and tell them to walk you through it a couple of times

@jedixman: thanks for the info and tip.

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@rocketraccoonthingy: You're onto something, baseball bats work every time.

@thedandyman: Ssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Shag it.

Lol, I read the thread title in Quinton Flynn's voice...xD

But wow, that is a lot to memorize! Have you wrote the speech down already? I would just keep reciting it aloud, honestly. Maybe even have a fluent Spanish speaker listen to you just in case.

I wish you luck, though! Am sure you'll do well regardless. :)

@thedandyman: Pay a Mexican to disguise as you and do the test instead. It's simple :)

Thanks for all the suggestions and support, normally I'd spend more time on individually replying to people but, y'know, gotta be revising. Fingers crossed all goes well tomorrow.

Practice.

Study for 15 minutes a day. Then eat something. Repeat. Good luck.