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[SeldomSeen]

It depends a lot on class size but one thing that really helps me is on day one to take a photo of them with a name card held up. I take this unofficial register to every class.

I'm not currently in China and am in a neighbouring country where they don't give themselves English names making things even harder. I struggle to pronounce some of their names although they tolerate my bad pronunciation (or, more specifically, inability to use tones correctly) with good humour.

I have one class of 16 students. On day one I remembered about half of them; day two, two thirds and after that I pretty much had all of them.

I have another class of 26 students and it is much harder and I can only remember half of them after three days.

Of course, it's the best and the worst students you always remember.

[NP1970]