Memory Shortcuts

Through our years of learning English, there have been a lot of techniques that have helped us to remember important things that people teaches us. These techniques are known formally as mnemonic devices.
Also, we have been tested about our English knowledge all life with a lot of different of types of tests to measure different types of memory.
In the following paragraphs of this post we will tell you some examples about how much have this techniques influenced our English learning and memory work.
To begin with, there have been a lot of memorized rhymes and acronyms to help us remember stuff. An example of this is in our English IV - Student Book where they taught us the acronym FAN BOYS to remember the coordinating conjunctions that we must use in compound sentences. Other example is from a long time ago, when we were just little kids. In that time we learned about a Knuckle mnemonic for the number of days in each month of the Gregorian Calendar where each projecting knuckle represents a 31-day month, we've been using it all life and it's very useful.

Some guidelines to memorize stuff easily are mentioned next:
Pay attention and Noticing: This has been very important in our English learning, for example when we watch TV and we try to identify how they pronunciate words and which mistakes are made so we can learn from them. Like the exercise Alejandro told us to do with Sofia Vergara and Modern Family.
Encode information in more than one way: An example of this is from a long time ago too, when we were kids. We learned the alphabet with a popular song that helps us to remember the letters easily and is not a classic way of learning.
Add meaning: One example of this is finding keywords for every phonem in the English language, these words are usually something meaningful for our lives so they're more important to us and are easier to remember.
Use visual imagery: One example of this is remembering the symbols for every phonem like it were a picture, that way we can remember easily the sounds.
Take your time: Through our english learning we've experienced a lot of moments when we've realized that's better to separate a big block of information into smaller pieces and study each piece individually and between large breaktimes.