How can I improve my ability to remember complex or foreign names?

How can I improve my ability to remember complex or foreign names?

To remember a complex, foreign name, if you hear the name, you're meeting Mr. Giftakis for the first time, what you have to do, it comes across very fast, you have to think very fast, and say, what does it sound like, break it apart Gift-Tack- and a Kiss. And I see Mr. Giftakis holding a huge gift with a big tack in it and he's throwing a kiss. Giftakis. You're taking the abstractness out of the name, putting it together into an image. If it's Mr. Markowitz, he's holding a big pen, a marking pen and he's marking a witch, mark a witch – get the picture? Abstract to concrete to meaningful. If it's unknown, you make it known. You lock those two together, but you might have to have two or three syllables to put it all together. A little practice, you're gonna get perfect.