Strategies For Memorizing Vocabulary

Visual	
I think of a word in my mother tongue that is like the word I am trying to learn.	
		
I draw a picture of it.	
I use look-cover-test-check. 	
I look at the word and then close my eyes and try to see it in my 	
head (photographic memory).	
I break long words up into little parts.	
I put 'post-its' with the words on them all round my room.	
Auditory	
I put the words to a well-know tune 	
I make a tape of the new words and listen to it.	
I say the words out loud over and over again.	
I break long words up into little parts.	
I make the words into a poem or a shape poem.	
Kinesthetic	
		
I separate the gender of the articles from the words and then try to put them together again.	
I write the words out over and over again.	
I make cards with the words in the foreign language on one set and in my mother tongue/ or pictures on another. Then I play games with them.	
I make up a word search or a cross word with the new words in it.	
I make up a gap filling exercise with the new words in it.	
Other Ways To Memorize	
I get my friend/ my parents to test me 	
I teach the new words to my parents/ brother/ sister