How to improve memory

I myself personally call this ' language interference ' :P. When you want to remember an English word, you are in the French language or Spanish thinking pattern. It causes all sorts of unnecessary mix-up :P.

How to overcome this, through hard memory by thinking of it day and night is sure a non-starter I believe and it will sure bore you down and make you lose passion on the language. There is a way, try to speak it out loud what you've just come across, speak what a native speaker speak, and try to go along with every nuance in their speech ... be it the accent, and style of stressing on certain words. This enhances your ability to remember single word easily as this is the audio part of the NLP.

Another method is through in-depth discussion, bring it out in englishforums, with more participants involved in what you are trying to remember, the time you remember them you can remember your ' word ' better. An association of word with the participants I would say

Don't worry eva. That happens to me too. Occasionally I forget how to say a word because it might be 'on the tip of my tongue'. When you live in a foreign country and you have less contact with the language you are teaching, this does tend to happen. It's natural. Either that or my memory is getting worse! :P

Eva, try this: Keep a dictionary on hand in the classroom, on student A's desk. When someone asks the meaning of a word, have student A look it up, and tell the class the meaning. Then, student A passes the dictionary to student B's desk, who will be the next person to use the dictionary. Then, student B passes it to student C, and so on. The students will remember the words better if they have to look them up themselves, and you will avoid embarrassment! : )

alexanndra that was a really clever idea!! I will certainly do it..and if there are any more similar ideas I would be happy to know!!
Thanks a lot

I think when It comes to learning a new language, one of the best ways of improving the memory, is practicing. Practicing by reading, and rehearsing the new words learnt, alone, by putting oneself into imaginary situation that will force the usage of those words. I think it's helpful especially when you have no one to practice with. People usually keep a notebook in which they write down the new words along with their definition, and put the poor notebook into the oubliette.

Oh by the way, thanks guys for all the tips you gave in your posts. I hope they'll help, for my memory really sucks.