Are you a visual or auditory learner?

I need visuals. If I have something to attach the memory to, then I can remember things better. (If that makes sense) My best way of learning, is by writing it down, so I like to take lots of notes. However, the combination of visual and auditory teaching is best. I also have a harder time following and paying attention when it is only audial. My mind wanders more.

Because I have always had a strong hypersensitivity to sound (for better or for worse!), I am most definitely an auditory learner. According to my parents, the time I could talk, I would memorize all my cassette tapes cover to cover after only several listens. As I grew older, I have been able to memorize song lyrics effortlessly. Bottom line: if I have heard a song more than twice, it's a safe bet that I can recite the lyrics verbatim. My music collection is the largest most people I know have ever seen too. The same is true for theatrical performance such as movies and shows and the like. I really love Gilda Radner, for instance, and after watching one of her comedy sketches all of twice, I get to where I have it down well enough to perform it at parties, and even on stage. Pretty much anything that touches me in the slightest stays with me no matter how long it is. In middle school, my classmates would call me a "walking encyclopedia." There has always been a downside to this, however: every time I have an unpleasant confrontation with another person or if somebody wrongs or offends me, everything that was said plays over and over in my head word to the point that it feels like all it's still going on. I can't snap out of things. I can't "just let things go." For much of my life, I have also had a very low threshold for low-frequency noises, especially if sudden, and have a low tolerance for background noise. I can also guarantee that if I had retained information through means other than auditory throughout my life, I wouldn't have learned one-tenth as quickly. I do not absorb a darned thing by reading material over and over and over again, for instance. Above all, my learning style is quite dominantly auditory. Visual aids help somewhat, but nothing quite makes my brain react the way hearing something does.

I think I am more on auditory but I have notice when I combine visual and auditory, it gives a great result to me. How about you? I took a test regarding this learning style and my result was the highest is auditory, second is the visual. However, the result of my auditory and visual did not have a long gap result. That's maybe it becomes better when it combines. It really helps when we know our learning style so we can maximize our opportunities. :)

I think i am more of a visual learner, since i find it hard to hear sometimes especially when the class becomes noisy too or the teacher talks fast. so i like something to read to really catch up with the lesson.

Visual aids are great as a complement to the lesson, it may help you to understand some points better. But I still prefer to listen to the teacher, if he/she knows how to explain of course instead of making the students asleep. I also like listening to old people when the talk about the past, because they tell the history from another point of view than the history books do so the books miss some points which only the oldern people are able to tell you.

I'm trying to learn a language and listening is not enough, I need to read the script, use a dictionary and work my way through a grammar book. I hear a lot of Greek on the television and that helps my pronunciation but I need to know the word in order to hear it in the first place. So for me, at least, I need both, visual first and then I can listen, understand and remember the context in which it is used.

I think having visual aids motivates me more to understand a lesson. You can easily associate things if you see them and is accompanied with a great explanation on how it works and all. And as you said, I also get interested to listen to a teacher that speaks spontaneously and not rely on the books that we use.