I find that making up mnemonics works well to combat interference. They don’t have to be good mnemonics for this to work.
Example: I noticed I kept mixing up the Spanish words aquí (here) and allí (there). I then made up the mnemonic that aquí has a “k” sound so it’s close, and allí contains l’s so it’s long away. A few days later, I encounter the word “allí”. My thinking then goes “That’s either here or there, I keep confusing those” → “oh yeah, I made up a mnemonic” → “allí means there”.
I wonder how well this method would work for others.
This is generally how I memorize the bits of scripts that are from my perspective arbitrary. It doesn’t even need much of a connection to the text itself.
E.g., one line I had trouble with was “Come, sirs”, which I kept paraphrasing as any of a dozen phrases that basically mean the same thing, until I associated it with brothels for knights. Now my cue comes along, I know I’m leading a group of people elsewhere, a bunch of competing ways to say that get activated, the brothels for knights concept gets activated along with them, it reinforces “come sirs” and that’s what I say.
I find that making up mnemonics works well to combat interference. They don’t have to be good mnemonics for this to work.
Example: I noticed I kept mixing up the Spanish words aquí (here) and allí (there). I then made up the mnemonic that aquí has a “k” sound so it’s close, and allí contains l’s so it’s long away. A few days later, I encounter the word “allí”. My thinking then goes “That’s either here or there, I keep confusing those” → “oh yeah, I made up a mnemonic” → “allí means there”.
I wonder how well this method would work for others.
This is generally how I memorize the bits of scripts that are from my perspective arbitrary. It doesn’t even need much of a connection to the text itself.
E.g., one line I had trouble with was “Come, sirs”, which I kept paraphrasing as any of a dozen phrases that basically mean the same thing, until I associated it with brothels for knights. Now my cue comes along, I know I’m leading a group of people elsewhere, a bunch of competing ways to say that get activated, the brothels for knights concept gets activated along with them, it reinforces “come sirs” and that’s what I say.