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Question: How do you memorize lines for a play asap!!?!!?!!?!!? !?
im 11 and i play wendy in the Canterville Ghost!. I dont know how to memorize my lines!. plz help or im SOL!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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When I need to memorize something I will either split it into chunks and repeat them over and over until I know them, or I will rewrite it!. It depends on if you are an oral learner, or a visual learner!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Repetition!.

Read your line, say your line!. Do it three times!. Go on to the next line!. See if you can find any thread (subject, emotional tie, through line, etc) that leads you from one line to the next!.

Have a friend hold the book!. Say your line and have them correct any mistakes!. Repeat the line with the correction!.

Write it out!. Especially useful is a white board (dry erase board)!. Write out the line, compare it to the book!. Make any corrections and write it out again!.

Three times seems to be a magic number for memorization!. You can perform any of these exercises any number of times, but every time you make an error you should repeat the correction three times!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

for my lines when im in a play i read them over and over before bed and try scenes slowly looking away from my book!. when i get them mostly memorized i think about them during school, at home, anytime i have a moment to spare!. then read them over again and again!. dnt put pressure on urself and its easier if u memorize early!. scenes that i have a lot of trouble wth i write out!. also memorize ur cues!. and associate the lines to things like emotions where they are on the script page wut they sound like stuff like that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i have to memeorize 3 pages of spanish every week!. i dont speak spanish and i dont even know what im saying, but saying them over and over really does help, thats pretty much the only way, get somebody to help you study, start with the first 2 or 3 lines, repeat them over and over till u get them, then move on and do the first 5, all the way until u get through them all!. =D good luck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well, I've been in quite a few plays and such myself and I think it really helps if you are repetative ans say things over and over again!.!.!. this is good but my main way to memorize is reading it, then putting the image of the while line in my head!. That way, if I go up there and I'm about to gwt stuck, I envision that article in my head and read it!.!.!. like I'm reading in my brain or something!! It'd [retty odd, but it always helps me! =D Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you have someone read your lines with you that could help but you should study them endlessly!. I am an audio learner though, so my problem was that I would know a bunch of other people's lines and mine would be harder to know!. So if you have someone read them for you, that could help!.!.!. or if you repeat them aloud a lot!. One way to know if you are an audio learner!.!.!. when you watch movies or television shows, can you repeat lines word for word!? Www@QuestionHome@Com

practice them constantly!.
Turn them into a song!.
people tend to remember songs more than other things!.
i still remember the "sun" song from third grade =)
once u have them memorized by song, turn them into regular lyricz!.
that might take a while to turn it into a song VERY fast but i know that it will work if u try!.
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it depends on if you are a tactile, visual, or audio learner!.
you can see which you are here:
http://www!.youthink!.com/quiz!.cfm!?action=!.!.!.

If you are visual either type it, or rewrite it!. This helps a lot if you are visual!. And sometimes it helps to take a few lines at a time and learn them and then move on and so on!.

If you are audio you should say them out loud maybe record yourself and listen to it over and over again!. Like i said about taking one part at a time could help!.

If you are tactile, seriously, you could walk back and forth, take a step each line, act out some parts, make hand gestures to remeber it!. Anything you can do with moving!


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just keep reading them through and get them into your head until you know them off by heart, and even when you think you do!? KEEP doing it until you know them so well you can like say them backwards lol (not literally) and then get someone to test youWww@QuestionHome@Com

read them over n over and read them out loud get a copy of the script and do it with someone,have them read thitheirnes while you practice yours also read them for 30 min before bed your brain retains more of what you read when you read before going to sleep!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

haha memorization is easy first read through your lines once only once then start practicing one when you get it add the next line and so on recite them loudly not softly so you can remember them dont just read in your head read outloud no matter who is there who cares your an actress come on shout it to the world hahahahaWww@QuestionHome@Com

Some people can memorize them if they just keep reading them then looking away and trying to recite the lines!.
You could also try writing your lines down on a piece of paper a few times, it helps me memorize things!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

idk!. I love acting so memorizing lines just comes naturally for me!. Just memorize them the same way u memorize stuff for school!. My BFF makes songs to rember stuff
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DEAR DRAMA MAMA YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY CAUSE WHEN START PRACTICING YOU'LL GET BETTER AND BETTER THAT'S WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAY PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT Www@QuestionHome@Com

go over them over and overWww@QuestionHome@Com

Have one of your parent or friends read the other lines, while you act yours out!. I works really well!. Oh, and do it over and over!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i am zoe im 12 you should remember it by looking at something e!.g vase and pretend this is your line come get me you stupid thing !. remember it by looking at an object its wHAT HELPS me Www@QuestionHome@Com

ok if you want to memorize it asa the go over one line 10 times then ggo to the next!.
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keep acting it out to yourself, you'll find that you've learned the lines in no time!

good luckWww@QuestionHome@Com

Try using tricks, for example i remember how to spell firends, by saying FRY-ENDS in my mind!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

contac me and I will send you my three page article on how to learn your lines!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

u should record it, den play it over a couple of times!.Www@QuestionHome@Com