VAK

Since I don't know exactly what kind of learning style fits me best (I'm confused whether I'm a visual or an auditory learner), I first answered a VAK (visual-auditory-kinesthetic) questionnaire. Here's the link: http://www.businessballs.com/vaklearningstylestest.htm.

I found out I am no way near being an auditory learner, I'm an almost-pure visual person. Out of 30 items, 23 of which are in visual, 5 in auditory, and 2 in kinesthetics.

Anyway, as I found out earlier in our German class that nouns in the German language have gender (WHAT?!), we were advised to strategize on how we could remember the gender of those nouns. I'm thinking the gender must be based on how hard/soft the object is, or how frequent men/women use it, BUT, the hard part is, there's no fixed rule about it. For those just starting to learn the language, you just have to find a way to memorize the word together WITH the articles (articles used in German vary according to gender).

Whenever I memorize words of small number, I just memorize the initials of each word and make a word or a phrase out of it. However, this will not work in language learning. As for my strategy, I force a word to be feminine/neutral/masculine to whatever category it belongs. For example, Job, it's masculine for me 'cos more men are expected to have jobs. Another, Lowe, it's masculine 'cos lions are agressive. So yah, that's my strategy.