Do you know what the word  mnemonic stands for?

I wasn't aware of the meaning of it either,as in my language it isn't a habit to memorize things in mnemonics.

Mnemonic is a learning technique that aids memory.

They can aid memorisation of very many types of information.

Thanks to Mr.Joseph's email,that I got today about the colours of the rainbow,I know about this memorisation helping device already.

He mentioned that we can remark the colours of the rainbow with the aid of a mnemonic,-hope he won't mind if I share here his fabulous example-,i.e.:

The seven colours of the rainbow are:

RED,ORANGE,YELLOW,GREEN,BLUE,INDIGO,VIOLET-in this order...
for easier memorization:- Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain

-I'm so thankful to Mr.Joseph to always point out an interesting language device and teach us new things.-

I've realised,that using this technique is a separate science already,with various methods.

There are many interesting mnemonics,my favourites are mnemonics for aiding the spellingof a word:

Mnemonics can be used to remember difficult word spellings:

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants.-->BECAUSE

Only cats' Eyey Are Narrow-->OCEAN

A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream.--->ARITHMETIC     etc.

There are many kind of mnemonics,-there are number mnemonics too-,maybe they can help us,language learners to retain difficult words more easily in our memory,and on a funny way..

YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE:

http://www.fun-with-words.com/mnemonics.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic

Memory Improvement Techniques (with mnemonics)

http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html

http://www.thememorypage.net/

http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/loci.html