Some people have a very good memory(记忆) and can easily learn quite long poems(诗) by heart. Ohave poor memory and can only remember things when they have said again and a.
The famous English writer, Charles Dickens, said that he could walk down any long street in London and then tell you the n of every shop on both sides of the street. Many great men of the world have a w memory.
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by r what he hears when he is a small child. Some children live with their parents in foreign countries and they seem to l two languages as easily as one. In school it is not so e to learn a foreign language because students have little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects too. A man's mind is quite like a camera, but it takes photos not only of what we see but also of what we f, hear, smell and taste. When we take real photos with cameras, there is much to do before the photo is finished and ready to s to our friends. In the s way there is much work to be done before we can keep a picture forever in our mind.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
