The essence of the method is that a connection is established between two words or objects, which creates a single whole from objects that have nothing in common.
What are associations?
An association is understood as such a connection between objects or phenomena in the human psyche, which, when one of the objects included in the association appears in the mind, entails the appearance of another object. Two or more objects can participate in an association.
How do you create associations?
If there is no connection between objects, then it must be invented. Any connection can be: fabulous, fantasy, absurd, funny. The more unusual connection you can think of, the better you will be able to remember these objects. Let’s look at some examples.
Attic – Cavalry– imagine the riders waiting in the attic for the signal to attack in the attic. There is a trumpet signal and riders on horseback, with difficulty climb through the attic window. Then the horses look out like cats for a place to descend and jump from the roof. With shouts of hurray, the cavalry rushes into the attack.
Glass – Goats– two goats rushing towards each other. When the distance between them turns out to be very small, someone’s kind soul manages to insert glass between them – so that the goats do not inadvertently damage each other. They bang their horns with a crash on the glass that can withstand their impact, shrug their shoulders in bewilderment and disperse, leaving behind the clinking glass. By doing this, you can tie anything together. And the more incredible the association between them, the better.
3 Using rhymes also helps. For example,
– загляни скорее в шкаф,
Там на полке шарфик – scarf!
4/ Mimd map is a method of graphically representing words to remember. We find a connection between these words and draw a diagram.
5 Method of thematic cards and stickers. It means that we lay out the cards by topic (for example, education, food, etc.) and teach them literally for five minutes over a cup of coffee. And the sticker method is very simple:
We write the name of the object in a foreign language on self-adhesive paper and glue it onto the object itself. Thus, each time we approach the window, we will know how it sounds in a foreign language.
6 Audiolinguistic method.