Memorizing dialogue can be scary. You may feel that you won't be able to deliver the dialogue without blushing, or that you'll forget everything you have to say. But don't worry, as long as you relax and follow these memorization methods, you'll be able to remember them easily. Choose the approach that you think fits your memorization and learning style.
Step
Method 1 of 3: Understanding and Repetition
Understanding the material
Step 1. Read all the materials
Before you start memorizing everything you have to remember, you should read the whole thing and understand the script, speech or presentation in question. Take the time to read it yourself in a quiet place and read aloud if necessary.
If you want to improve your memory, read it again
Step 2. Understand the material
After you read them, think carefully about the meaning and intent behind the words, whether this is to motivate workers during a presentation or deliver an impassioned monologue in a play.
- If you play theatre, understand your character's motivations well. This will help you decide what to say or not to say.
- If this drama, presentation or speech involves other people, understand their part too. How does your character or presentation relate to what other people have to say? Understanding exactly what they are saying can help you when your character has to speak.
Step 3. Write your part
Once you have read and understood your material, write it down. If you're memorizing lines from a long play, focus on a long monologue. Whatever you do, remember that writing your piece can help you process material much more quickly and will get you closer to your dialogue. You won't feel like these are just words on a page, but become like your own words.
Remember to focus on the words as you write them. Don't just write while watching TV or listening to music. Take enough time to really absorb what you write
Start Memorizing Your Dialogue
Step 1. Move while memorizing
You will find it easier to memorize while moving, using gestures, showing emotions while expressing them. Don't just say the words, but also follow the movements you have to make when you actually say them. This helps the body understand the dialogue better.
Even if you don't move your body, you can move back and forth as you practice. This will also help
Step 2. Pay attention to the others
If other drama members or other people are involved with your presentation, pay attention to what they have to say. Don't just wait for them to finish a statement or monologue so you can start your dialogue. On the other hand, by understanding what they are saying, you can find a connection with the sentence you have to say.
Try to build a strong sense of all the dialogue so you don't have to memorize them. Remember that other people may need your help remembering their lines for the big day
Step 3. Use the word trick
If you're stuck can't remember, try a variety of word tricks to help you remember dialogue. Here are some word tricks to try:
- Use rhyme to help you remember the right words in sentences.
- Use visualization. Visualize the words you are about to say and the message being conveyed, and the words will come back to you.
- Use acronyms to remember your sentences.
Step 4. Cut into pieces and remember by section
You don't have to memorize dialogue from start to finish if your sections are very long. On the other hand, you can chop up your sentences to make them easier to digest piece by piece and eventually understand the whole thing.
- Try to remember the sentence from the beginning of the speech. If you're able to do that, move on to the middle while continuing to combine the beginning. See how far you can go without forgetting something. Once you can remember the front and the middle, move on to the end.
- If you're part of a play, you can study your monologue first, before moving on to interacting with one character, then the next.
- Don't try to memorize too much at once. Working with smaller pieces will be easier and less frustrating.
Improve Your Technique
Step 1. Repeat, repeat, repeat
Once you're comfortable with your lines, take the opportunity to compliment yourself, but don't stop practicing. You should repeat the dialogue as often as possible until it sounds natural to you. You have to keep repeating it until the day you have to deliver it, or you can forget the dialogue on the D day.
- Repeat your sentence when you wake up in the morning and before going to bed.
- Repeat the sentence in the car.
- If you're playing for the theater, repeat the sentence with another player.
- If you have a patient friend or family member, ask if you can repeat your sentence to them from time to time.
Step 2. Record your sentences
You should have a recording of your sentences and keep them at all times. Just sitting down and recording all the lines can help you remember them. If you're memorizing for a play, you can record all the sentences in the play, so you'll know when it's your turn to speak. You can play these recordings at any time to maximize the time you spend memorizing your parts.
- Play the recording whenever you get the chance. Play while you're getting ready in the morning, or while you're doing housework, like folding clothes, even while you're exercising or taking a walk.
- You can also play recordings in the car.
Step 3. Relax
This is an important point. You need to be relaxed when it comes to delivering your sentence. If you don't relax, you will most likely forget your sentences in the middle of a workout or even on the D-Day.
Keep telling yourself it's no big deal. If you make a mistake, you can recover gracefully, and even if you can't remember the words, it's not the end of the world
Step 4. Learn to speak without text
If you know how to improvise, you won't have to worry too much about memorizing your parts. Improvisation is a great way to keep people from noticing that you forgot your piece. The most important thing is to ensure that there are no pauses or confusion. Whether you're performing alone on stage or part of a play, everyone has to act confidently, even if they don't know what's going on.
- As long as you are comfortable with your character or role, you will be able to say something similar to what you should have said.
- Remember that you are not the only one who can mess up. If you are in a drama, maybe other characters can make mistakes; You need to be comfortable enough with the other players' sentences, so you can help align if needed.
Method 2 of 3: Using Meaning as Trigger
Step 1. Reread several times
No matter what text you're reading, whether it's a speech, a monologue or maybe just a small phrase, this step can help you get a clue as to what the speech or monologue means.
Step 2. Find meaning in your text
Without meaning, text will just be text, and any text has no meaning.
Step 3. Little by little
Read a paragraph or section. Then see if you can add movement to it.
Step 4. Repeat step no 3 several times before continuing
Step 5. Once you're sure you can remember something from the paragraph, try stating it in motion, but without text, to test your memory
Step 6. Keep doing this step for each paragraph or short section of this text, and you will eventually remember every sentence and movement, naturally
Method 3 of 3: Visual Memory
Step 1. Understand that visual memory is not something you are born with
Instead it is a technique or skill that can be learned by anyone, and is one of the oldest memory techniques in the world. One of the old techniques is known as “Memory Palace”. The basic idea is that you build a big palace in your mind with a special place for everyone, and if you want to save the memory for later recall, you can visualize yourself in that palace and put the memory in the appropriate space. Then all you have to do later is remember where you put it, pick it up and see it with your mind's eye.
Step 2. Break up the text into smaller pieces
Divide based on existing ideas.
Step 3. Give each section a number and associate the idea with the number
For example to remember the Gettysburg Address, the first part of "Four scores and seven years ago, the discoverers brought this continent, a new nation, born in freedom, and dedicated to the foundation that all men are equal.") understand the time, place and reason, so that you can remember “part no 1 = When, where and why”.
Step 4. Color code each section
Use the rainbow colors in a standard arrangement (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple or mejikuhibiniu).
Step 5. While reading, look at the page
Likewise words, letters and punctuation as forms. Now remember the form relationships between each word. Note that the word "baseball" is to the left of the word "commissioner".
Step 6. Make a mental and visual connection to the first part and the first phrase of the next
See this as a larger version of step 4. With this, when you present the Gettysburg Address, you can remember that the first section ends with “the premise that everyone is created equal” and you can relate it to the first phrase of the next section, which reads, “Now we are involved in a great civil war.”
Step 7. Finally, after practicing the memorized text, try to remember the shape of the page
Look at the fragments, look at their numbers and colors. See what words are side by side. Even try to see the shape of the letters used. The basic idea is, if you can see the text in your mind's eye, you can read the text from your head.
Tips
- Try taking a 10-minute break between paragraphs or sections of your own choosing. It's less likely to remember the entire text if you do it all at once.
- Read your dialogue again and again. Then try to say it without looking at the paper or text.
- Try to read as much as possible. Then have someone test you.
- Have someone in your family read the script to you. Have them read the sentence before you, and see if you can remember your part.
- Speak dialogue while doing everyday things, such as walking, or eating (saying in your head), etc.
- It's important (if you can) to ask people to help you with your sentences. If they can, ask them to say part of your line and you continue the dialogue before and after it, so you know what to hear when your part arrives.
- If you have a lot of text to memorize, and it takes time to memorize it, try doing it in a few days.
- Mirror practice! This will help you speak in front of the group without having to imagine what they think of you. Practice in the mirror until you're satisfied, but no kidding, this is serious stuff!
- Record your parts, and listen to them again while you sleep. These sentences will enter into your subconscious, and you will be able to remember them faster.
- Try remembering your sentences on an empty stomach. Your mind will more easily digest the contents.
- If you try other methods, don't keep practicing and memorizing as this will only make you forget because of the pressure you are putting on yourself. Do it slowly and quietly, and you can remember every sentence and every movement.
- If you're part of the theater, try to get a role that you can do-not one that's too difficult. Try getting a bigger role, if you can afford it, but don't take on a role you can't do.
- If you study dialogue from movies, take a look at how the actors pronounce their lines. Listen carefully to their intonation, accent and articulation. Following them can help you memorize more easily.
