<p>i have you memorize a 40ish line pablo neruda poems in spanish in two weeks!!! anyone have any good memorizing strategies???</p>
<p>Get a bunch of index cards and write 5 lines on each of them. Memorize it bit by bit.</p>
<p>Or at least, that’s how I memorized Romeo and Juliet.</p>
<p>My D had to memorize the Bill of Rights. She did each amendment by putting the words to music…and the goofier the music, the better. (That way, you won’t “ruin” favorite songs by always remembering your memorization). It works (as long as you can “silently” in your head)…she still remembers most of it…used the “Barney” theme for the 2nd amendment, for example.</p>
<p>Read the printed text about 10 times then…
Read it on tape (or on a CD) or even better have a Spanish native speaker read it. Listen to about 4 lines at a time (but in units that make sense --don’t stop in the middle of a thought or sentence.) Then pause-- try to repeat–if you lose track, rewind (or go back) and replay several times, try again …etc.</p>
<p>Do people still have cassette recorders? I guess you kids can do it on the computer somehow nowadays. </p>
<p>I am assuming you have to memorize it to say, not to write??</p>
<p>I read the first line (or sentence depending on the type of text) a couple times. then I close the book and say the line through. then I do the same for the next line. then I put the two lines together and repeat them until I know them. you can keep changing the size of the chunks until you have the whole thing.</p>
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Yup, I usually do something like that too.</p>
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<p>You know that he is kinda hard, right? So, if his work is hard, then you have to work that much harder to balance things out. </p>
<p>So, maybe you could do 8 lines a day for five days? And, always go back and review the lines you memorised from the day before. </p>
<p>Then, do the whole poem every day for five days.</p>
<p>This all ^ adds up to ten days, eh? </p>
<p>Then, for the other four days just review it gently every day. And get to the point where you can naturally say the poem aloud as well as write it in longhand.</p>
<p>That is about it. Good luck and bless 'ya LizzieE ! (^_^)</p>
<p>You have two weeks, it’s not that bad. I’ve had to memorize poems when I took Spanish 3 my freshman year, and I only had a weekend to do it.</p>
<p>Just repeat one line out loud or in your head, over and over, until you’ve memorized the line accurately. Then move onto the next line, memorize only it, and once you’ve memorized it, repeat the 1st and 2nd line together. Do this until you’ve gotten through all 40 lines successfully.</p>
<p>Pablo Neruda is a gangsta! (memorable quote from when we read one of his poems in class-oh public schools :))</p>
<p>Anyway, break it up into logical stanzas, if you can, and memorize a section each day. Leave a day or 2 at the end to make sure you’ve got it perfect grammarwise and aren’t replacing words (happens a lot).</p>
<p>Also, if you can visualize any of the imagery in the poem that always seems to help. Connect the words to pictures.</p>
<p>Memorizing it so that you can recite it? Well I guess just sit down with it and say it over and over again. When you think you’ve got it down, ask people to prompt you with random lines from the poem.</p>
<p>How I would do this is read the whole peom a few times. then startt to memorize and repeat chunks of the poem a few lines at a time.</p>
<p>Take it stanza by stanza. Memorize the first stanza one night by just reading it over and over again. After the first few times, begin to say it without looking at the words the whole time. Only glance down when you need to. Keep doing this until you can say it five times in a row without messing up. Then repeat this with the next stanza only this time, after you have it pretty much memorized, say the first stanza each time you say the second one. Continue in this manner, adding one stanza at a time, until you have the full poem memorized. I had to memorize a poem in Spanish pretty much overnight and this worked for me really well. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>