Suppose, a teacher wants to teach his students a new work for lawyer, that is barrister. To do this, the first thing is to associate the word barrister with a keyword which would be familiar to the students, say, bear. After this, a mental image has to be created of the word and its keyword doing something together. For example, in this case you can think of a bear working as a lawyer inside a courtroom.

The keyword mnemonic techniques can also be employed for specialized terms like ranidae which is the scientific name of frog. In order to remember this, you can associate the term with the keyword 'rain' and visualize a frog sitting in the rain. These mnemonic techniques require constant practice in order to make them effective. The keyword technique can even be used to acquire the vocabulary of foreign languages. For example, certain Italian words can be learned in the following way:

• The Italian word for apple is 'mela'. Associate this with 'mail' and imagine an apple kept inside a mailbox.
• The Italian term for lake is 'lago'. So, the keyword can be log and you can think of a log floating in the lake.

So practice these mnemonic techniques frequently to achieve accuracy.