How to Memorise Paragraphs

Reviewed by Annaliese Dunne

Last Updated: June 24, 2024

This is a simple way to learn long paragraphs for any occasion. It helps to learn speeches for presentations, lines for plays or answers to questions in language speaking exams.

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How do I improve my ability to memorize passages?

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Try chunking the text into seven or eight words and repeat these until you know them. After you can repeat them without looking, do another set of seven or eight. Once you can repeat those, repeat them together in order. Continue to practice a set and then the whole thing together in a sequence, adding another set after you can repeat the sequence you have already been memorizing without looking at the text. The longer period of time you practice and the longer you stretch out the different practices, the better you will remember.

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How do I memorize things?

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Read over the material plenty of times, and use little sentences that will trigger your memory or brain by remembering the whole paragraph.

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How do I remember a long Arabic paragraph?

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Break it down. Read the smaller sections first, then read it all together.

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Once you know a phrase highlight it.

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Try learning five phrases, go to do something completely different for twenty minutes, then come back and test your knowledge of the five phrases before learning the next few.

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Hand-writing the paragraph can also help you remember it.

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Don't over work your brain! Spending all day trying to memorize will only make it more difficult. Split your day up so that you get to do activities that interest you in addition to learning your text. It's all about how your balance and manage your time!
Depending on how long you have to memorize, try setting a goal each day and try to memorize at least 1-2 sentences.
Try highlighting different sections in different colors. This may make it easier to remember.

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