Any advice on memorizing countries?

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Hey all,

I have to memorize 138 countries by Tuesday for a quiz, for my Economics of World Development class. Anyone know any tricks to help you memorize countries?

I have the Americas memorized pretty good. Africa and Europe is gonna be a killer....



Any advice? :D
 
I have several books by Harry Lorayne, best thing is to break the name into something English (a word or two which sound the same or remind you of the name), and then put the names into a list and make a silly little story or try linking each two together (1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd and so on) by something stupid or could never happen in real life (that's usually what sticks in your memory).

Hope this helps, it helped me a lot. :)
 
Freeze_Dried_Bloodworm;2756891; said:
I have several books by Harry Lorayne, best thing is to break the name into something English (a word or two which sound the same or remind you of the name), and then put the names into a list and make a silly little story or try linking each two together (1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd and so on) by something stupid or could never happen in real life (that's usually what sticks in your memory).

Hope this helps, it helped me a lot. :)
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Ok =)

Yea, thats what I did for classification:

King Philip Came Over For Great Sex:

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.


I don't know any for the countries though :(
 
Anagrams, like some one already said. You could also make a song out of it - that's how we memorized the states and their capitals in 3rd grade.

Humming a tune can help jarr the memory...making up the song in the proper order ect. might be a bit more effort, though.
 
rmorse;2756946; said:
Ok =)

Yea, thats what I did for classification:

King Philip Came Over For Great Sex:

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.


I don't know any for the countries though :(
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I used "King Phillip Cops Opium From Girl Scouts."

I also came up with a naughty one for Moh's hardness scale that I cannot repeat here.
 
princess;2757064; said:
when u think of GB think of me :D woo neked if it helps
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Ok. That would help, but I need pics....
 
Didn't tiny toons or Animaniac's make a song for all the countries?
 
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