What to memorize?

1. Language
1. Greetings, "thank you," and, "you're welcome" 
2. Hirangana (more cursive than the angular katakana) is taught first to Japanese children
3. Sign language
2. Geography
1. Capitals (US & the video) 
• *
2. African countries
3. Math
1. Quadratic formula 
2. Fundamental Theorem
4. Music
1. Guitar
2. Piano
3. We Didn't Start the Fire Billy Joel 
1. Video
1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four
5. Five
2. History
5. Other
1. Logical fallacies
2. Theses
3. DDS (for nonfiction)
• mnemonic
4. Chess moves
1. Openings
2. Strategies
• 2 Minute Chess Strategy: The Center
5. Doomsday rule
• http://rudy.ca/doomsday.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
6. *
• Presidents 
• Song
• .gov

What not to

1. Events
1. Birthdays
• Sync Google Calendar to Facebook friend's birthdays
2. Near useless
1. Phonetic alphabet
• unless you're paranoid about implying what you're thinking about when clarifying letters to someone else
2. Poetry
• (really just undecided)
• shmoop.com/cremation-sam-mcgee/stanza-1-summary.html

http://ask.metafilter.com/20594/What-should-I-memorize
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2047.html

V&A

Visualization & Association

Link complex words to simple ones to create the image, in your mind. More about Link Method.

1. Get a blank sheet of paper.
2. Brainstorm easy words that sound similar to its parts; make them wacky, wrong, wild--just vivid.  
3. Think of simple images for these easy words. 
4. Make an ordered story. 
5. Learn
1. Practice it (or them) about ten minutes later.
2. Practice 30 minutes after the end of the ten.
3. Practice 90 minutes after the last.
4. Practice about 3-4½ hours later. 
5. Practice once-a-day for about three days to a week.
6. Once-a-week after that. 

The best way to start is with this post. Ingeniously imagine away...


      Bonus
Make a summary of each chapter in the textbook. Take it and draw each main idea in sequence. Its easy--read Ann Van Den Broeck's comment on the full page: memory-improvement-tips.com/best-memory-trick.html.