How do i remember words without doing it the boring and hard way?

Question

I have a chinese dictation in a week or so. (My version of dictation= teacher asks you to write 10 words, you must remember how to write those 10 words and do the obvious..write them!) I always find it hard to revise for things like these. How do i remember 10 words without being bored to death!

I know what you're thinking....don't even suggest cheating!!

Answer 1

Why is it, that a night time comedian can tell a joke one time, and many people can tell it the next day at work to those who go to bed early? It's all a matter of focus. Ten words in a week or so? That's just a little MORE than one word a day! Write one today, then repeat it tomorrow and add another. Confusious says that a long journey begins with a single step. I can't write one word in Chinese and I think you have a pretty cool skill worth taking the time to learn. Whether it's boring, is up to you. Skill at anything is 1% inspiration and 99% persperation.

Answer 2

Its one of those things really. As other people have said write the words on posters and stick them up in your room and stuff so you will pick them up without actively noticing. Just repeat them every so often learning them in a pattern might help. Also try to visualise an object that sounds like the word that usually helps. Also you could try and make a sentence out of the words but if that fails just repeat them over and over. There is no fun way sorry. Good luck =)

Answer 3

Chinese characters are based on pictures. You can adopt Tony Buzan's method (look it up on the net) of associating words (as well as how they sound) with pictures remembering the lot in a visual kind of way. The more bizzare the better. This method is suppose to be ideal for learning new languages.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You can think of fun ways to remember them by making up phrases or sentances using the letters of the word as the first letters in the sentance, for example, IMAGINE = I Must Achieve Greatness In Nearly Everything = I.M.A.G.I.N.E. see? Not sure how this will work in chinese tho?

Answer 6

Try and make an assosiation with each word or visualise the word or the assosiation like a picture with each word. That helps me as I have to learn lines of scripts

Answer 7

Have you ever heard of Truman Capote? He is famous for having remarkably long sentences with big words. We read an excerpt of his averaging about 32 words a sentence way back when. This is what you are trying to do, except you're failing. Your passage is about eight lines long and accomplishes nothing except coming out completely illegible and saying nothing. You need to "dumb" your language down to a level you can handle. Great authors like F Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote can use these techniques successfully because they have previously mastered more simple techniques. You haven't. Don't aim to sound smart; the best books don't always blow you away with detail and finesse. The best stories are good stories. Get your story down the best you can, then start editing it. Aim to make things that make sense and evoke emotions, don't make writing that sounds supercilious. Good description is good but "An explosion of colors rocketed across his vision as the girl before him became more solid. Wispy peach colored lines lashed out, wrapped around him." is simply hard to understand. Let's deconstruct this. "An explosion of colors rocketed..." Colors don't rocket. This just sounds weird. A better phrase would be something to the effect of "Blazing light and color filled his vision..." This sounds equally smart, but more accurately describes what was happening. "...as the girl before him became more solid" This is good; however, it sounds like your trying to hard. I personally would go with "came into focus" but there are a number of ways you can do this just making more simple sounding and less over the top "Wispy peach colored lines lashed out, wrapped around him" This sentence has the rare quality of saying lots of high-vocabulary words and still saying nothing. The only way to make this less helpful a sentence would be to write it as "Ethereal wisps in a palette of peach lashed out and entangled themselves within his aura." This sentence could be eliminated completely, or replaced with something much less condescending. "They thickened into arms..." Once again, you are trying to use symbolism and description to create a visible image, except this image is considerably different from what you are describing. Stop beating this particular image of blurriness to death, and clear out some of these words with much less distracting lyricism. I'm skipping ahead, as it has the same basic pattern and criticism for a while. I'm moving to the last paragraph. This feels weird. You used the dashes wrong, and then used a dot-dot-dot where a dash should be. You might even want to flip those. Next, this sounds much to cliche and like every other sentence where somebody writes somebody waking up. If you're going to do it, do it different. Finally, I think what's happening here in this whole passage might be interesting. The thing is, this whole thing is very hard to understand, even if you know every word and all of the conventions. Make it something easier to understand. It'd be very hard to find a great american writer who's work was hard to get through. On the contrary, their works are easy and page turners. Don't take my criticisms the wrong way, as I generally want to help your language lose the affectations and become more final. Good luck, and if you need any more help with this or any other part of the writing, send me an email from my Profile.

Answer 8

if you want to remember words quickly, 1st use them in a sentence during the day and also try to associate the sound with a another word you already know, then by remembering the trigger word you will remember the one you need.

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Answer 9

make a recording of yourself spelling out the words, play it over and over to yourself.

Write the 10 words on post-it notes and leave them dotted about, on cupboards, the fridge, the bathroom, around your mirror, anywhere you're likely to see them over and over.

Practice writing the ten words over and over. There's no quick way, just more effective ways!

Good luck!
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Answer 10

Write each word at least 25 times.
Say it loudly when you write it.

Write them in MS WORD
print it as pdf
open it
make it bigger then smaller
then bigger
then smaller
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