Hello. There is this discipline international names on memory league website, do you have some ideas how to get better at it - international names? It would be best to have opinions of people who get 20+ names in international names.
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I would recommend becoming familiar with how names work in different regions of the world. You don’t have to learn different languages. Just be aware of common endings and patterns so that perhaps you can recognise what part of the world a name is from. Being aware of the pronunciation can also help.
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Hey comeon, I’m not as strong as Jan or Katie (my PB is 24 and 21 in compet).
It took me a month to do more than 13.
I agree with what @katiek said. Basically, you will see that a lot of pattern are very common. (Bjorg - Xin - tan - Xian - Yuang etc…) So learn to do associations with theme can be quite useful.
You can also use 2images per names ( Chrislawa : Christ / law)
Basically the more you train the more you are going to skill up.
Review your session is a good way to progress also.
It’s an infinite debate but I think to be able to do 30/30 you need to be talented, or train really really hard. I don’t know if the second option is possible. Hope I can prove that 30/30 is possible without anything special.
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hi katie! if you don’t mind, can you please explain more about the ways, the sourses you use to get used with different int names? i’d love to hear and learn from you!
I’d suggest getting used to breaking down names into syllables and then using substitute words. Learning the period of table of elements (number and element) is great practice for this, as many of the words cannot be visualised. The images you choose to use will be very subjective to you (as they should be) but by splitting international names in this way you can quite easily turn them into images. You can also decide as to whether you want to remember the pronunciation or spelling (or even both and that will steer your choice of images.
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For instance, I watch a lot of sport and you see different patterns (endings, consonant clusters etc.) and get used to the most common names from each country. Or if you don’t watch sport then maybe you could look at the names of actors in TV/film. Alternatively, you can simply search for lists of names from certain countries.
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Thanks 
. I’ll try it out
How many countries do you search names for?
Well, most of the European countries have different languages but there are some with common characteristics, so perhaps you can start with the broader regions (e.g. Eastern Europe, Scandinavia) and then look in more detail. Similarly with Africa, there are various regions that have common name characteristics. Also a number of regions within India you can look at. It’s also really useful to be able to recognise Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese names. I don’t want to leave any countries/regions out but I’m just mentioning the ones that come up most often in International Names 
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Thank you for advice! 
I’ve just found this website. Has all kinds of names from all languages. 
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I tried this too, and immediately got ads on my facebook for baby stuff lol. But I do think it’s a good approach because.
I try to turn some names in to multiple words.
Thorbjorg, a guy at work is names thorn bjorg becomes a robo. Thor’s robot is my image.
I notice some common name chunks and i have preset images there.
Xuan= zoo animal
Jan = jan zon
Bern- burn
Clei- key
Qi- Goku
Rein- Simon Reinhard
Lin- Line
Another thing I’ll do is when i do a training sessions and ill type the names out and review later to get used to seeing the spelling.
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Well, and have you already improved?
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It would be funny if you used Simon as an image while facing Simon in a match.
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Yeah, im very inconsistent but I have gotten better
This has happened with Orkhan in Words actually
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I’m making flashcards in quizlet for ints divided according to the language (e.g. English, German, French, Arabian, etc), so if someone is interested I could share it.
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I am interested
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Hey there 
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