You Can Remember in an Easier Way

There are many different techniques that people can use to acquire a better memory and to remember things with much better retention. These techniques have been used by many people since ancient times. They use our imagination to remember things better.

Wondering how to remember, say, vocabulary of the language you learn while using your imagination??

If you need to memorize something... you should imagine something that reminds you of it. And the picture that you think of should be somehow unusual... ridiculous, funny, out of the ordinary. This is very important. That's what makes the information easy to remember. People remember pictures much more easily than words.

So, when you need to remember, say, a shopping list... you have to imagine the first two items in some funny way. If you have to buy a bread and a pizza, imagine yourself eating a big bread in a restaurant (instead of a pizza) ... but you can imagine anything you want. It's really up to you. If you need to memorize some third item then you associate the second item with the third item in some unusual way to remember it. And then you continue with other items in the same way. This way you can create a very long chain. Because of this the technique is called a chain system... or a link system. Using this technique you can remember any sequence of items and many other things as well.

You can remember a foreign language vocabulary - you associate the meaning of the word you want to remember together with a word that the sound of the foreign word reminds you of. To give you an example: la casa (a spanish word meaning a house) sounds a bit like "case". You can also remember someone else's face - now you associate their surname with something their face reminds you of. And there are also many other things you will think of yourself. So you can see that imagination is a good help when you need to remember something - and it is much more enjoyable.