How to Remember What You Learned in English

Hi everybody, my name is Alicia. In this video, I'm going to talk about some tips that you can use to remember the things that you learn. In this video, I'm going to talk about a few

concepts that you can use when you're studying something. Of course, the focus will be on language, but you can use a lot of these tips for anything that you study. So, how do you remember the things that you learn?

That's what we're going to cover in this video. So, let's get started. Okay. The first concept I want to talk about is something called spaced repetition.

So, spaced repetition is a way to study something. So, again, the focus will be on language here, but you can use this concept for any topic you want to study. So, here is the basic concept of spaced repetition in

a few steps. First, you study something for the first time. Let's say it's a new vocabulary word. So, you study something for the first time. You see the vocabulary word, you go, "Okay, this word

means this thing." Great. Then, step two, take a short break. So, maybe a few hours usually. So, let's say for example, you studied this new word in the morning, and then you take a break, you

have your day, you come back to your studies in the evening, at night, and number three, you review the new thing, right? So, this is kind of the basic concept, the basic step-by-step thing we do with spaced repetition.

Study something, take a break, review it. The next step, take a slightly longer break. So, maybe a day, for example. So, you review your thing in the evening, and then you take a break.

You don't see it again until maybe the next evening, right? You review the item again. And then you simply repeat these steps. So, you continue the pattern of taking longer breaks between

review sessions. So, this concept called spaced repetition involves leaving a space between your repetitions, between your review sessions. So, there is a reason for this. I've created a very basic graph here, so you can

kind of see the concept behind spaced repetition. This section is your memory, so 0% to 100% your memory, your ability to remember what you learn, yeah? And this part here is your study or your review point.

So, I've marked these with days in this example. So, when we think about how we remember information, we need to think about how we don't remember something just because we heard it one time or even two times or three times, depending on the person, right?

We need to hear it multiple times. We need to use it and practice it multiple times for it to really stick. So, this is a visual way to understand the spaced repetition concept.

So, here this red dot is a study point. So, the first time you study something, right? Here at day zero, we have 0% memory of the word. We don't know the word.

We have never studied the word before, right? So, here this red dot is our first study point on day one. Okay, I know it maybe 10%. I got it.

I have seen it before, right? And then we take a break. Here's our first break, yeah? This break I talked about here. We sort of forget it a little bit cuz we