How to Remember Words When Learning a Language 

“How can I remember words?” “How can I memorize new vocabulary and make it stick in my long-term memory?” These are questions that nearly every language learner has asked him/herself at one time or another. Given that learning and remembering new words is such a huge and important part of foreign language acquisition, it would make sense to learn about how to become better at it. It might be boring, but learning new words is simply unavoidable.

You might remember my 12 tips on how to improve your memory that I wrote a few months ago. In these posts I basically gave a bunch of useful tips to help dramatically improve your memory in the more general sense. I gave tips, among others, on how to focus better, use mnemonics, use visualization techniques, eat healthily, and so on. I would strongly encourage you to go through the 12 tips (even if you’ve gone through them in the past, re-reading them is a good idea!), but today I’d like to provide you with some easy ready-made techniques used by many experienced language learners to remember words.