How to Memorise Paragraphs

Last Updated: March 17, 2023

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.

Steps

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Split your paragraph into short phrases that make sense to you.^{[1]
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Mark these short phrases onto a copy of the script you have to learn so you can clearly see them.^{[2]
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Read the first phrase out loud. Read only the first phrase, slowly, three times whilst reading it on the script.^{[3]
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Then without looking at the script, try to repeat it again.^{[4]
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Now, read the first and second phrase out loud slowly, whilst reading them on the paper.
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Read them without using your script.
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Keep adding phrases until you know the whole script.^{[5]
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Community Q&A

Question

How do I improve my ability to memorize passages?

Community Answer

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.
Question

How do I memorize things?

Community Answer

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

How do I remember a long Arabic paragraph?

Community Answer

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