Mnemonic
As some of you may know, I chose biology as my subsidiary subject. It was clear that sooner or later, I would have to deal with genetics. It turned out to be sooner rather than later - and I love it! However, I'm really bad at memorising things
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However, what do you dislike about the common: "The letters with curved lines pair with each other as do those without curved lines."?
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Actually, I didn't know it when I had this idea. The similarity of G and C *did* occur to me, when I was writing the caption in a sketch though (but it was too late) XD
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Both fail when considering RNA, though. I would love to see the green cat trying to undress the tiger!
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It can't undress the tiger. It may be able to undress an alien though. Or an ape XD
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They certainly are :) Memory truly *is* selective. I tend to remember useless stuff, e.g. I will always remember that yolk contains more proteins than egg white (we call both protein and the white part of the egg Eiweiß in German XD). Very useless. :D"
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It's impressive that you can use an mnemonic in English - whenever I try to write even notes in German, apart from not knowing how to express everything, I tend to not remember what I wrote later anyway. Then again I'm far from fluent, and everything in class is spoken in English of course.
For species classification, I always used: Kick Pow Cat Of Funky Gag Store - Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species ;)
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As I do a good portion of my daily reading, writing and thinking in English, it's really not that special to me ^^" I started learning it when I was 10, so I've been speaking it for more than half of my life!
Foreign language classes not taught in that language should be forbidden! Speaking and hearing a language is the best way to learn a language! (for the same reason, my knowledge French is very modest) I'm very sorry you don't get proper lessons...
Do you have an exchange programme? Those helped a lot for me! :D
I'll try to remember that one! Might need it in summer ;)
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And while I'm over analyzing what I don't even know entirely, and grasping for words I've forgotten or don't know at all, I'm trying to take notes on some topic having nothing to do with the language, trying to basically study two things at once. I *did* write my notes in German while taking German classes, which were spoken auf Deutsch ;) !
Simply substituting words one for one, like "Guanine bonds mit cytosine" does little to promote real thinking in another language, more like just using it in facsimile. I reckon it would do me much good to read more in German, to expose myself to the German way of saying things and to force myself to think about why it's done so, and to have to look up words (and have a context for them in the sentence to - very ( ... )
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Well, it's a start, isn't it? :)
By the way: ist das korrekt? is correct, so would ist das richtig? or stimmt das? :)
For me, notes usually depend on the language I'm hearing. I automatically choose the same language. Even if the written stuff I see simultaneously is in a different language.
Try the German words then (they're not that different: Guanin, Cytosin, Adenin and Thymin)
Reading sounds like a good idea! Or maybe watching movies in German? Are American DVDs sold multi-language? Over here we usually have the original voice track plus German and sometimes other European languages - usually French, Italian or Spanish.
I personally don't like the German translation of Harry Potter, but I guess it's good enough to learn German with XD If you need any ideas for further books, just ask me :D
Wow, 20% are an awful lot. American universities are god-damn expensive already!
Yeah, I found that list, too :D It's quite awesome!!
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