Mnemonics in your language

#1

:uk: My very educated mother just served us noodles (used to be nine pizzas :wink:) - planets of the Solar System

Richard of York gave battle in vain - rainbow colors

Big elephants can always understand small elephants - spelling of because

:ukraine:Чому Пінгвіни Живуть Зимою Без Своїх Фантазій - rainbow colors

:ru:Каждый Охотник Желает Знать, Где Сидит Фазан - rainbow colors

:poland:Pamiętaj chemiku młody - wlewaj zawsze kwas do wody - pour acid into water, not the other way around

Let’s share examples of sentences to remember things in your language!

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#2

In school, to learn the math sequence of PAMDAS, we learned the mnemonic
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally :laughing:

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#3

Spelling SOCKS for the Spanish phrase: eso sí qué es
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosy to remember which way to turn a screw or cap
Every Good Boy Does Fine: to remember the order of notes on the lines of a music staff

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#5

that SOCKS thing was a game changer for me with Spanish when I worked in a restaurant back in the day

#7

CATALAN:

  • Writing numbers (DUC): Decenes (tens) Unitats (units) Centenes (hundreds), also “duc” means “duke”). This means that the hyphen is written between tens and units, and between units and hundreds. For instance, setanta-quatre (seventy four), tres-cents (three hundred)… And not dos mil (two thousand).
  • Hyphen in compound words (Xeresa): Xeresa is a village in València. This means that, in compound words, there is a hyphen between the first “item” and the second one if the second “item” starts with X, R or S. For instance, “para-sol” (parasol, sunshade), “para-xocs” (bumper).
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