spaced repetition Concepts

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

by Gabriel Wyner · 4 Aug 2014 · 366pp · 87,916 words

and accessible way, weaving in his personal language journey. His method, proven by his own achievements, is clear: focus on pronunciation, avoid translation, and use spaced repetition extensively. And he offers lots of specific techniques to make sure you’ll never forget what you’ve learned. I’d recommend this book to

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: Wait, Wait! Don’t Tell Me! Principle 5: Rewrite the Past Timing Is Everything: The End of Forgetting Do This Now: Learn to Use a Spaced Repetition System 3: Sound Play Train Your Ears, Rewire Your Brain Train Your Mouth, Get the Girl Train Your Eyes, See the Patterns Do This Now

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: One Last Set of Vocabulary Cards A Glossary of Terms and Tools Appendices Appendix 1: Specific Language Resources Appendix 2: Language Difficulty Estimates Appendix 3: Spaced Repetition System Resources Appendix 4: The International Phonetic Alphabet Decoder Appendix 5: Your First 625 Words Appendix 6: How to Use This Book with Your Classroom

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put all of the new methods together. I encountered three basic keys to language learning: 1. Learn pronunciation first. 2. Don’t translate. 3. Use spaced repetition systems. The first key, learn pronunciation first, came out of my music conservatory training (and is widely used by the military and the missionaries of

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instead of speaking. By throwing away English, I could spend my time building fluency instead of decoding sentences word by word. The third key, use spaced repetition systems (SRSs), came from language blogs and software developers. SRSs are flash cards on steroids. Based upon your input, they create a custom study plan

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expense. As a result, I have a chest full of neat tools and toys to play with. We’ll begin with my favorite one: the Spaced Repetition System (SRS). * * * 1. They’ll do it, for the most part, in English. Yes, this breaks my no-English rule, but you know what they

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words you’ve almost forgotten and building foundations for new words at a rapid, steady clip. Playing with timing in this way is known as spaced repetition, and it’s extraordinarily efficient. In a four-month period, practicing for 30 minutes a day, you can expect to learn and retain 3600 flash

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alphabet, vocabulary, grammar, and even pronunciation. And they can do it without becoming tedious, because they’re always challenging enough to remain interesting and fun. Spaced repetition is a godsend to memory intensive tasks like language learning. It’s a pity that it wasn’t a subject back in school, when I

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had a lot more to remember. At its most basic level, a Spaced Repetition System (SRS) is a to-do list that changes according to your performance. If you can remember that pollo means “chicken” after a two-month

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. Until someone puts a USB port into the back of our skulls, our most effective weapon against forgetting is spaced repetition. And since we need deep, memorable experiences to get the most out of spaced repetition, we might as well get them in the process of making our flash cards. The card construction process

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and maintain. We like habits; they make the difference between comfortably chatting with the Parisian waitress and awkwardly asking for the English menu. KEY POINTS • Spaced repetition systems (SRSs) are flash cards on steroids. They supercharge memorization by automatically monitoring your progress and using that information to design a daily, customized to

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-do list of new words to learn and old words to review. DO THIS NOW: LEARN TO USE A SPACED REPETITION SYSTEM (SRS) We have found a way to defeat forgetting. Now we must decide what to remember. In the next four chapters, I’ll show

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remember new words easily. To accomplish this, I’ll show you old and new tools that can quickly rewire your ears, and we’ll use spaced repetition to rapidly memorize example words for every important letter combination (e.g., gn as in gnocchi). In short order, you will master the sounds of

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at your daily schedule and determine how much time you have available. We’ll use that information to create a language-learning habit. Choose Your Spaced Repetition System The most popular SRSs are computer-based, and my absolute favorite is Anki. First released in 2008, Anki is free, easy to use, and

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remember everything. When you were learning a language in school, you could receive the same correction hundreds of times, and never actually remember it. With spaced repetition, you only need to receive a correction once, and within a few weeks, it will become a permanent part of your long-term memory. KEY

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will make sure that you review your flash cards efficiently, and you’ll be spitting out German words in no time. Step 4: Follow Your Spaced Repetition System and Learn Your Cards Learn thirty flash cards a day. As you learn them, you’ll tell your SRS what you remember. If you

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abroad for the purposes of learning your target language and exposing yourself to the culture of your target language’s home. LEITNER BOX Paper-based spaced repetition systems. They use a flash card file, a carefully designed schedule, and a few simple game rules to create the same sort of

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spaced repetition magic you’ll find in a computer program like Anki. LEVELS OF PROCESSING One of the mental filters that determine what you remember and what

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purposes of language learning, it’s the program you’ll use to connect with language exchange partners and private tutors on the Internet. Skype.com SPACED REPETITION An extraordinarily efficient learning method whereby you learn something and then wait a few days to review it. If you still remember, then you wait

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even longer before your next review. By studying in this way, you push memories deeper and deeper into your long-term memory. SPACED REPETITION SYSTEMS (SRSs) Automated to-do lists for flash cards that monitor your progress and tell you which flash cards to study on which days to

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, start with my series (linked at Fluent-Forever.com/videos). YouTube.com APPENDICES APPENDIX 1: Specific Language Resources APPENDIX 2: Language Difficulty Estimates APPENDIX 3: Spaced Repetition System Resources APPENDIX 4: The International Phonetic Alphabet Decoder APPENDIX 5: Your First 625 Words APPENDIX 6: How to Use This Book with Your Classroom

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to fluency, simply because you get a lot done when you make language learning your full-time job. However, our use of imagery, mnemonics, and spaced repetition will push us ahead in terms of overall efficiency. The following estimates show the total amount of time FSI students spend in class for each

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Speakers 88 WEEKS (SECOND YEAR OF STUDY IN-COUNTRY, 2200 CLASS HOURS) Arabic Cantonese *Japanese Korean Mandarin (Min Nan) (Wu Chinese) APPENDIX 3: SPACED REPETITION SYSTEM RESOURCES Computerized Spaced Repetition Systems: Anki Anki’s website is Ankisrs.net. There you’ll find download links and installation instructions. Once you’ve installed Anki, you’ll

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for new grammatical form for new words for pronunciation, 1.1, bm3.1 reviewing, 6.1, bm1.1, bm2.1, bm7.1, app6.1 in spaced repetition systems, 2.1, 3.1, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm3.1, bm7.1 for spelling stories on three tracks of, bm1.1, bm2.1, bm3

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paradox Leitner box, 2.1, bm2.1 definition of game rules handmade cards for pronunciation, 3.1, bm3.1 reviewing, bm2.1, bm3.1 in spaced repetition systems, bm7.1, app3.1 letter names levels of processing, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, bm7.1 lips, 3.1, 3.2

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of processing for pronunciation trainers rules of sentences and spelling, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, bm3.1 working with See also recordings spaced repetition systems (SRSs) choosing and corrections definition of flash cards in, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, bm1.1, bm1.2, bm3.1 as key to

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language, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 Spot the Differences (game), 4.1, 5.1, bm4.1, bm7.1 SRSs. See spaced repetition systems Stock, Gregory stories, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, bm5.1 subtitles suffix Swedish language symbols synonym, 6.1, bm4

The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

by Sahil Bloom · 4 Feb 2025 · 363pp · 94,341 words

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are often used to mask a lack of deep understanding. Use the Feynman technique: Find beauty in simplicity. How to Retain Everything: The Spaced-Repetition Method Pillar: Growth Spaced repetition leverages cognitive science to help you retain new information. It plays on the way our brains work to convert short-term to long-term

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memory. With spaced repetition, information is consumed at increasing intervals until it’s committed to long-term memory. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus was the first to identify the effect

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of spaced repetition on memory retention. In an 1885 paper, he formulated the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve (EFC). The EFC maps the exponential loss of newly learned information. Ebbinghaus

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observed that each time the newly learned information was reviewed, the EFC was reset at the starting point but with a slower decay. The spaced repetitions had the effect of flattening the memory-retention decay curve. Why does this work? Think of your brain as a muscle—each repetition is a

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, you are pushing the muscle with a steadily more challenging load. You’re forcing the retention muscle to grow. Here’s how to implement the spaced-repetition method: Let’s imagine you consume some new information at 8:00 a.m. Now you start the repetitions: Repetition 1: 9:00 a.m

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hours later) And so on. The memory is reinforced at increasing intervals. Next time you’re trying to retain new information, use the science-backed spaced-repetition method. It works. How to Think Differently: The Socratic Method Pillars: Growth and Space In 2009, Stanford business professor Tina Seelig wrote about an interesting

Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

by Tom Vanderbilt · 5 Jan 2021 · 312pp · 92,131 words

ability to get better. I tried to ratchet up my chess brain. I did puzzles. I clicked through endgames on Chessable, a website that used “spaced repetition” and other proven learning techniques. I played games of 960, where the pieces are randomly scattered, to shake myself up. To help me make faster

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Jan 2012 · 1,007pp · 181,911 words

on accelerating the acquisition of foreign languages. Detre was completing his PhD in computational neuroscience and aimed to crack the learning code by combining optimal spaced repetition with crowd-sourced (and crowd-vetted) images, among other things. As an aside, he’d also performed DARPA-sponsored research on using fMRI scans to

Haskell Programming: From First Principles

by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki · 1 Jan 2015 · 1,076pp · 67,364 words

be glad to help you as well, and they especially welcome questions regarding speciﬁc problems that you are trying to solve.1 We believe that spaced repetition and iterative deepening are eﬀective strategies for learning, and the structure of the book reﬂects this. You may notice we mention something only brieﬂy at

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order). • Do not feel obligated to do all the exercises in a single sitting or even in a ﬁrst pass through the chapter. In fact, spaced repetition is generally a more eﬀective strategy. • Some exercises, particularly in the earlier chapters, may seem very contrived. Well, they are. But they are contrived to

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

by Clive Thompson · 11 Sep 2013 · 397pp · 110,130 words

in reverse. If you reviewed a fact one day after you first encountered it, you’d fight the curve of loss. This process is called “spaced repetition,” and experiments and anecdotes suggest it can work. It explains why students who cram for a test never retain much; the material dissolves because they

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never repeat it. But though spaced repetition is clever and effective, it has never caught on widely, because ironically, the technique relies on our frail human memories. How would you remember to

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%20of%20Internation%20Conferences%20Poster%20.pdf; and personal interview with Lyndsay Williams and Ken Wood. this process could work in reverse: Ebbinghaus, Memory, Kindle edition. “spaced repetition”: John J. Donovan and David J. Radosevich, “A Meta-Analytic Review of the Distribution of Practice Effect: Now You See It, Now You Don’t

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine

by Peter Lunenfeld · 31 Mar 2011 · 239pp · 56,531 words

weather, the stock market, or human culture) rely on a huge number of attractors and can be better thought of as “phase spaces.” In phase spaces, repetitions and differences lead to constantly shifting equilibriums. A minor change in the original condition can effect a hugely different outcome—better known as the “butterﬂy

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

by Emily Nagoski Ph.d. · 3 Mar 2015 · 473pp · 121,895 words

, and external environment because of the expecting system. This is implicit learning—a different experience from explicit learning. Explicit learning is memorizing a poem with spaced repetition and conscious effort. Implicit learning is (in part) the expecting system linking stimuli across time and space. We don’t have to study or memorize