TOP 3 Ways to Improve Your Memory Advanced English Lesson
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm today we’re going to talk
about three ways to improve your memory
so that you can remember what you learn
in english let’s get started the first
way to improve your memory and to
remember what you’ve learned is
repetition a lot of people say if you
have a difficult time remembering
people’s names like when you meet a new
person it’s difficult for you to
remember their name the advice that they
give is to repeat their name to say
their name back right when you learn
their name say it again right when
you’re having a conversation with them
say their name several times repeat the
new information which is their name so
how can you apply this to learning
English in English there are new
vocabulary words new grammar concepts
may be new pronunciation that doesn’t
exist in your native language how can
you use repetition to remember all of
these things well no one likes to repeat
the same word again and again and again
so the best way to remember something is
to hear it repeated in different
contexts hear it in a TV show read it in
a book hear me say it in a lesson this
is going to give you a context for how
it can be naturally used the challenging
thing is it takes patience this just
happens through experience through using
English and listening a lot reading a
lot you will be exposed to those words
or those sounds or that grammar concept
through lots of exposure in different
situations so you need to really use
English in a lot of different ways so
that you can get natural repetition if
you just write the vocabulary word 30
times maybe you’ll remember it but you
might not remember the context
or you might not know nuances of that
expression so I recommend being patient
and listening for similar words as
you’re reading or listening to a podcast
or listening to one of my videos this is
a great way through natural repetition
to increase your memory the second way
to improve your memory so that you can
remember what you’ve learned in English
is through using multiple senses
including drawing your eyes even your
nose your ears using multiple senses to
remember one way to do this is to draw a
picture let’s say that you’re trying to
master the R sound or and not use
instead well you can draw a picture of
the mouth saying these words it can be
even a really simple picture I’m not an
artist my art is quite elementary but
even if your course is the same this is
a great way to visually see how you
should pronounce it or if you’re trying
to learn a new expression if the
expression is an idiom maybe the idiom
is don’t put all your eggs in one basket
this means try to diversify your life
don’t expect one thing to be the only
way that you can succeed well you could
draw a picture of this and try to
imagine how to use that idiom through
the picture it’s going to be much easier
to remember
then simply reading the words or reading
a story about it when you have a visual
image this will really help you another
way to visually memorize and remember
things is in your house maybe if you
don’t know the word for potted plant
this is a plant maybe you want to
remember potted plant well you can draw
a picture or write
the word and tape that word on the plant
that way whenever you see the visual
image you will connect those two things
sometimes this is called the sticky note
method but you can use this with paper
and tape and put things around your
house that remind you of certain
expressions or maybe certain
pronunciation that’s useful for you I
think with English we often don’t use
visual images enough we use words or
listening but visual images are so
important so don’t forget to use
multiple senses when you’re learning the
third way to improve your memory in
English is to make your world English a
great way to do that is to change your
phone into English change your computer
into English try to make everything in
your life English
watch English TV shows if you don’t have
that option at least turn on the English
subtitles watch videos in English in on
YouTube try to surround yourself with
English this is similar to repetition
but you are surrounding yourself that is
a really a valuable way to increase your
memory because in the end all of these
memory ideas are about exposing yourself
to more English when you have more
exposure to real English in your daily
life you’re gonna remember more this is
a big challenge for a lot of people of
all ages we learned something and then
forget it so I hope that these three
methods repetition using multiple senses
drawing pictures putting notes places
and also the third method of making your
world English will help you to increase
your memory do you have any other
suggestions for how to remember what
you’ve learned write them in the
comments below let’s share our ideas
together
thanks so much and talk to you later bye
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