for a system like this to work effectively, it is the student who should create his or her own associations.

Receiving visual information

1Plan your reading.

“If we wish to remember much material we must equip ourselves with a large number of places. It is essential that the places should form a series and must be remembered in their order, so that we can start in any place [locus] in the series and move either backward or forward from it.

“A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

If there’s no really obvious or memorable connection between a word and its foreign translation, then you need to create an artificial association.

or back-tracking.

What I had effectively done was to trick my memory into semi-believing that it had witnessed a series of experiences, and the depth of this belief was totally dependent on the ability of my imagination to conjure up artificially sensed experiences.

I simply pictured the first ideas and associations that entered my head as I read each name down the list. It’s important to hold on to these first associations, as they are the ones most likely to repeat themselves at a later date.