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wikiHow to Memorise Paragraphs

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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.


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    Split your paragraph into short phrases that make sense to you. For example, split "The mirror has fallen off the wall, and no one is willing to put forth the effort required to hang it back in its rightful place." into "The mirror has fallen off the wall," "and no one is willing to put forth the effort required", "to hang it back in it rightful place."
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    Mark these short phrases onto a copy of the script you have to learn so you can clearly see them.
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    Read the first phrase out loud. Read only the first phrase, slowly, three times whilst reading it on the script.
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    Then without looking at the script, try to repeat it again.
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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.

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  • How do I improve my ability to memorize passages?
    wikiHow Contributor
    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.
  • How do I memorize things?
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    Read over the material plenty of times, and use little sentences that will trigger your memory or brain by remembering the whole paragraph.
  • How do I memorize a lot of text?
    wikiHow Contributor
    Read one part over and over while looking, then try saying it without looking. Then do this with all the other parts. When you're done, read it once, then say the whole thing without looking. If you haven't memorized it after that, start over from the top.
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    • Try learning five phrases, go to do something completely different for twenty minutes, then come back and test your knowledge of the five phrases before learning the next few.
    • Try to learn the script completely at least two days before you have to perform it so you have the two days to keep backing it up in your head.
    • Once you know a phrase highlight it.


    • This technique won't work for everyone and it also depends on the size of the script.

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