Can notes around the house help me remember vocabulary?

Can notes around the house help me remember vocabulary?

Arthur Bornstein (Founder, The Bornstein School for Memory Training) gives expert video advice on: What is the best way to learn vocabulary words and definitions?; Can notes around the house help me remember vocabulary?; How can I remember words in other languages? and more...

Using little systems like a vocabulary word on the refrigerator door, putting it on the wall is fine. But sometimes you can look at that word fifty times and still you won't remember it, unless you start making associations. Now, to do a review on vocabulary, there is a very simple system. You can take a three by five card, put ten words on the card, write the definition on the back of the card that's how you make those associations. Now you have ten words and you have ten cards, that's a hundred words. Now you can put twenty words on that card, and you have ten cards, you now have two hundred words. You carry these little three by five cards, and then review several times a day, or maybe once or twice a day, then spot check it, you'll find that you'll be up to 400, 600, 1000, words in a very short period of time. So developing systems where you are putting things around the house means you're going to have a lot of papers around the house and sometimes it's easier to have it on a card.