Lecture #10: How to Memorize Anything - EFFICIENTLY
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This is the tenth lecture in a series of lectures, intended for first-year college and university students, loosely around the topic of "How to Do Well in College". But the information in this video may be more widely useful. There are two methods that allow people to efficiently memorize things: mnemonic cues and spaced repetition. In this video I explain how to use each of these.
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I’m back here after 4 years…. I forgot how to remebr
😂😂😂 Damn
You must be from the future
@@waliullahmazumder your right 😭
Good for you. It’s spaced repetition with a 4-year space between revisions.
Key Takeaways:
1. Mnemonic Cues - make a story that ties in with memorization. Intuition is like an effective program and our cognition is our means of writing the program. By putting in the work to make a relationship/correlation, you foster memorization.
2. Spaced Repetition and Active Recall - Although active recall was not mentioned in this video, there's a plethora of research proving active recall combined with spaced repetition is one of the best ways to learn. Spaced repetition increase the intervals of time between learning attempts and we learn things more efficiently. Active recall can be combined with looking through your flashcards by attempting to answer the question first (audibly or in your head) before flipping the card. Online software like Anki is used to help with this process by giving you flashcards based on how difficult/easy the card was and when the last "learning attempt" occurred. I open Anki every morning and make flashcards every night.
[ Note: It's okay to use flashcards made online from similar topics you are studying, however there is a great benefit to taking time to make your own cards. 1) It allows you more time to process and think through the material you're trying to memorize/study 2) You choose directly what you want to put in your deck of cards (as opposed to finding a card in a deck that's not important or the deck is missing important study material) ]
I have been taking notes throughout the whole playlist and look forward to trying to integrate this into my educational life. I wish I had seen this when I first began college - I'm currently facing my first B, which has made me re-think my studying strategies, because being "naturally" smart does not work in college.
ppl literally remember better what they did themselves you prove it here
being smart works well everywhere but sadly it works so well in college that you learn stupid things that block your use of smartness beyong the cultist herd's setting and then you loose instinct independence and you get caught believing experts who know shit about world beyond repeating own institutional dogmas and patterns
I love the self-awareness here. Internet nerds are so dope.
Active recall I do too but cards distract me, I rather use key words on paper
Making a note too. i don't want be naturally smart now but a smart working straight A top of the class
Two more things I’d add:
1. Put multiple related questions on one card
2. Never look at the answer of the card until you’re sure you can not answer the question
We understand information relative to what we already know (schemas) and we chunk stuff together.
So what I’ll do is make notecards with multiple questions all relating to the same topic.
If I’m in an intro to ethics, instead of making three cards on (1) the definition of utilitarianism, (2) the ‘founders’ of utilitariansim, and (3) objections to it, I’ll just make one card with three questions.
Then, the next card will move onto Kant’s deontological ethics.
This has all the advantages of before + the ability to group information relative to what you already know and what you are learning-instead of learning it in isolation.
One last thing-it saves 3x-4x notecards
And about the second point, we learn much much much better through active recall (jogging your memory) than simply seeing the answers. We remember things by forcing our brains (or our minds…🧐) to recall the information.
It’s like going to a gym. You want to gain muscle, lift heavy. You want to remember, try to remember things without looking at the answer.
I strongly agree with #2, for exactly the reasons you give.
you also learn more being at movement
like when walking through forest
you would learn much more by simulating this displaying a different locations pictures around each card
you would also benefit by shuffling order of the questions on card and changing visibility of the best known question on card to make others more visible next time
a simple app could do this effectively
probably developing an audiovisual dictionary of meanings displaying text as a story
but we probably would need a next gen AI to make such a thing and train brain to makes such stories automatically in mind as reading
not everybody is an autistic exception with innate abilities like savants
Quite the comment. enjoyed it and the video!
@@szymonbaranowski8184 any apps you’d recommend
"or our minds…🧐" ... Thank you!
As someone who, for decades, has performed memory feats in front of large audiences, I agree with you professor Kaplan. A word I like much better than "association" is the word "Connection". The mind is a connecting machine. We connect new information to that which we already know. I also really liked the fact that you talked about using index cards as flash cards. I teach the same thing. Another reason that it's such a powerful memory aid is that the act of handwriting notes forces a person to use more of their 5 senses, thus strengthening the neural pathways (synapse) inside the brain. Thank you for your clear message.
Give us an example
How would you go about memorizing a full page?
Divide it into paragraphs. And read and try to recall what you just said by recording it (audio or handwritten!
That’s Neuroplasticity you are referring to.
U are amazing trainer
@@Nomorectrax sellotape it to your eyes :)
I've always heard of people memorizing things by using their imagination or imagery, but when you incorporated it with the flashcards it genuinely blew my mind. I never thought of combining the two. It's going to be a real change to my studying, thanks.
really then how you make concepts ? in that concepts there is agian images in that there is another images .. how you do it ???
if you learn information in chunking then you miss the big picture , when you learn the information in big picture you lost other details , ok if you learn this 2 you miss the organsing information of this
I learn SOOO much from this series! The pop quizzes are brilliant and I wish I had you as a prof way back when. Your students are very fortunate! Thank you!
For years, I tried off and on to learn Morse Code, but I'd get to around "F" and give up because I couldn't keep the dots and dashes straight. But someone recommended that I should associate each letter with a word that has the same cadence, and doing that, I had all the letters memorized in no time. For example, Morse Code for "A" is dot-dash, which has the same rhythm as "ahoy". So the letter equivalences I came up with are: ahoy, Bob Balaban, Casablanca, dog catcher, eat, Fibonacci, green bean soup, hootenanny, icky, Jafar has lice, kill the lights, Lothario, Morse Code, noisy, Omaha, protect my butt, quick find a towel, revolver, Sierra, tea, uniform, vitamin D, Wakanda, X marks the spot, you're a big jerk, Zagnut City.
i especially appreciate the vitamin D
but tea is bad for men
@@szymonbaranowski8184 why do you say tea is bad for men?
i use this exact same method for morse code, i still haven't forgotten a single letter.
I want to try this but I also want to remember the letter names (Alfa, Bravo, Charlie...). If I ever learn Morse well enough might try learn semaphore too.
Yooo, Zagnut City. I go once or twice a year
This is a fabulous way to learn. My daughter struggles with remembering what she studied and uses index cards all the time. But still struggles due to her learning disability. This is soooo awesome! I'm gonna share this with her. Thank you for sharing your wisdom on how to remember things. This is super cool!
I am a lifelong learner. You are without a doubt the most astute teacher I have ever been exposed to especially how to take notes and how to remember what you read. Thank you SO much!
why?
This is such a wonderful concept. I didn't know this thing had a name. This is how I have learnt to memorize all my life, right to Postgraduate. It is so nice, seeing this video. My method of memorizing wasn't a secret at all. It's a concept. Wow. Great job !
I like using telephone numbers to remember dates. For example, the American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865. The student uses their own phone number and changes the last 4 numbers to the date they need: XXX-XXX-1861 and XXX-XXX-1865. I’ve seen this work, and I’ll say these methods you’ve outlined should begin much earlier than college. I’m an educator and I very much appreciate your videos… Cheers!
I relate the year something happened to my birth--124 years before, etc. Amazing the difference it makes
I just found out about this guy and I can honestly say, there is a level of stress that has gone down just listening to him break down the methods to memorize. I always thought I had an issue, I always thought I wasn't smart enough and despite doing other things to help change that internal narrative, Jeff's information and ease of explanation are such welcomed assets in my attempt to learn Spanish and other relevant knowledge. Cheers!
Your didactics are very useful ; Thanks a lot ! Still works when you reach the age of 70+ ! And it saves you a lot of times from getting angry ‘cause you think you “forgot” what you were looking for ! Just keep on being disciplined and don’t let it go thru !
I did this [mnemonic cues] to memorize the top 200 medications prescribed in 2013 for pharmacy tech school.
I still remember some of the brand/generic combos because of the stories.
I used spaced repetition for a lot of math through school.
I used Mnenomic without realising it when I was learning origin and insertion of muscles in Anatomy, that is pretty cool 😎 Thankyou 🌻
This is the way I’ve been learning my entire life so I 100% agree with you. If I don’t have stories/ associations I can guarantee you I won’t remember. This is the same as remembering peoples name. I always have to relate it to something.
I can offer up another method that worked really well for me in my software engineering course. I memorized the list of the names of design patterns (dp) by assigning a letter to each name, where each letter was just the first letter of the name itself. So for the Builder dp I abbreviated it to "B", etc. Then I grouped the letter abbreviations together into acronyms of around 5 letters per group, effectively chunking them. Each acronym corresponded to the 3 categories of dps (Creational, Structural, Behavioral). Then I used space repetition to remember the acronyms, and then I used spaced repetition to remember what the abbreviations meant in each acronym. So for example: ABFPS (Creational), stands for "[A]bstract factory", "[B]uilder", "[F]actory method", "[P]rototype", "[S]ingleton". The whole list is ABFPS, ABCDFFP, CCII-MMO-SSTV. I also assigned mnemonic cues to the groups, where it helped me to think about how the second group starts with ABCD, and ends with double F's. Also it helped me to see that in the third group, it had sub-groups, and it had repeating letters: CC, MM, SS. I also found that this approach using acronyms works for remembering a list of sentences, where you assign a single letter to each sentence, and create an acronym for the list. Then I used spaced repetition to remember the sentences by first recalling the abbreviation, then recalling what each letter in the abbreviation meant. So for example "Adding more people to a project increases the time to complete the project", a project management concept. I would pick the most important word in the sentence (mnemonic cue), like "people", abbreviate it to "P", and combine that with other abbreviations into an acronym. So for instance, for a list of 4 related sentences, you might have: PINE. I would use spaced repetition to remember the acronym, and I would use spaced repetition to remember the abbreviated sentences. To test myself, I made a sheet of just the lists of acronyms, and I would use it to quiz myself about what each stood for. When I got good at it, I could even remember the acronyms without first prompting myself using the sheet. I have only ever used this approach to study for college exams. I am not sure how effective this is for remembering something longer term, but I think that one could continue quizing yourself after a course is completed in order to achieve long term recall.
abbreviations should mean something
better to make stories of the letters
and even better if you combine these jargon words with their funny cryptonims
There's an easier way of putting something into the long term memory.
You are an amazing teacher. Keep it up!
Thank you! Will do!
Yes 🙌 Because I have to do it even if I don't want to @@jeffreykaplan1
Loving your purpose and service to others Jeff!
A strange thing happened after I fell from a ladder head first onto a concrete patio . That night I happened to see an article about the constant pi. It had listed the first 100 digits. I moved on but later on I found myself recalling the first 50 digits. I went back to that article to check if my recall was accurate. I found I was able to recall the 100 digits in a few minutes.
This went on for a few days and I built my memory of pi to 1000 digits with no effort. However, this gift from a knock on the head began to fade and fade quickly. In just a few days my recall had faded to the first 12 digits. My recall ability is now back to where it was before the fall. It was fun while it lasted!
When i go home i'll have to remember to hit my head with a hammer.
I will then be able to remember the number sequence of Pie while in my hospital bed recovering from a cracked skull.
Pity by the time i get out of the hospital i'm back to normal again. Genius!!
@@sergiodario58able I don't care whether you believe it or not but its a real phenomenon. Much wilder stories than mine happen. Try looking it up.
Since you mention "genius", one guy did become a math genius after a severe blow to the head. And it never left him.
@@phredro1731
I never said i don't believe it. I just thought it's a pity that in order to become a genius you have to break your head..lol... good luck to you anyway.
@@phredro1731 I thought the end was going to be like: it was fun while it lajdsoajjjjj...ted
@@YOSOYLADISCO no, it was more like "f*!kg#d@mmit!!
re: spaced repitition, you could always read a book that contains the words you need to learn. Reading in Spanish massively accelarated my comprehension and contextualized the language far better than a ton of 'flash' cards would have. I get random reoccurences of words, the variation of which is more stimulating than anticipating their arrival at some point.
To be honest, reading a story (or atleast something meaningful) brings the two concepts together.
How amazing is it that I watched this video learning the Korean word then I watched this video the following days and I was able to recognise Korean umbrella immidiatelly
This is very interesting. I’ve never applied mnemonic in the way you did. Very ingenious. Thank you.
As useful and clever as I always expect Prof JK to be! 👏🏻
I have learned about the 'spaced repetition' in 'learning how to learn' and it is such an amazing way to memorize subject matter. But mnemonic cues are an interesting technique, and I am looking forward to using it during my study sessions. You are an impeccable explainer, please do continue the wonderful job. To return the favor, I subscribed to the channel, and I am going to like the video and I hope at least I have given back an iota of what you have given me.
This is honestly just how my brain works, I make stories for things and I don't even have to think about it. But using it for studying? I have never thought of that- it's absolutely brilliant! And by the way, I got both of the Korean words correct
I at very first, noticed the similar underline on the right side of both Hangul illustrations.
That was how I got mango, correct
I got mango correct by seeing the oval or circle at the bottom of the symbol as a fruit on the ground.
it works! after watching this video I will co-sign this technique.
I will also agree that the "index card" method is far superior for assimilating new information to memory.
I will reinforce this by adding to; the index method.
the simple action of writing/drawing the
character (Korean) strengthens the encoding for memory recall.
the written language is the greatest invention of all time
I believe.
excellent video.
thank you, facilitator
00:00
Science has discovered two ways to memorize things: mnemonic cues and spaced repetition. Helpful cues are associations like stories that cause you to recall other information.
Mnemonics
00:42
She asked a group of her friends to come in and participate in a study, and we had to learn Korean words and their English definitions. At the end of the study, we took a quiz to see how much we could retain.
Korean Mnemonics
01:44
When I was shown a word in Korean, I noticed that part of the word looked like a roof or an umbrella. I imagined a little stick going here and it opening and closing like an umbrella, and then the five seconds were over, and that symbol disappeared.
02:44
To make it easier to remember two things, you can add a third thing: a story. The human mind remembers things based on levels and points of connection, so you can do this for all sorts of things.
03:42
When I learn the names of 50 students in a lecture classroom, I look at the student, ask them their names, and make up little stories with little associations with those things. I don't tell them all this out loud, but I focus on that weird thing about the student.
04:41
To memorize things, you have to repeat them within a shorter space than you repeat the ones you already know. The old-fashioned way to do this is with index cards.
Spacing Repetition
05:11
Using this flashcard would be best if you learned some words, labels, or facts.
05:27
You test yourself by looking at one side of the card and seeing if you know what will be on the back. If you do, you put it at the back of the pile.
05:59
You can do it, as a matter of degree. If you don't know a concept, could you put it in the middle; if you have no clue, put it close to the front?
06:26
Lightner Method is straightforward and refreshes the cards in whatever order the software thinks is the best order.
Other Methods
06:50
The simplest, best way to memorize things is to use index cards. Spaced repetition is an efficient way to get a whole bunch of stuff in front of you and to get it to stick in your memory.
07:28
These methods work well and have been used throughout my academic career. It's amazing how infrequently people use them when they want to memorize things.
07:51
You can find the Korean word for umbrella right here, but which symbol means mango?
Pop Quiz
08:27
One of these symbols is the Korean word for mango, and when you were looking for the word umbrella, you looked for this thingy, told yourself this little story, and knew that this was the answer.
You typed all this from memory after watching the clip? Otherwise what's the point of this🤔
@@TheDYNAMITE001 No. The point is that the key points are essential in everything. Or am I wrong?
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I got both correct with your method. I quickly memorized the “mango” words by identifying the sideways “Fendi” name brand. That’s how I remembered it. Thank you!
Great video, very well explained and I didn't know about spaced repetition done like this.
Great information professor..
I have never seen a better teacher
I am happy I discovered your Channel!
Well done! I have shared this with my students. Great information.
Great videos. Thank you.
You do an amazing job! Thank you!
Just great your students are vert LUCKY!!! Thanks for taking the time to make this.
I wish I learned this in school. But, I am still super grateful you shared this. Thank you
Now I'll never forget the word for umbrella in Korean! "Usan"! I used to know it, then forgot. I learned the Korean alphabet in a few days by making associations with the shapes and using flash cards. I also used words that are the same or similar in English, as in your example, mango in Korean is... mango! In fact I think I even used that word in my studies. The alphabet is fascinating and easy to learn. It was designed to represent mouth and tongue shapes, if not actual umbrellas in the case of the "S" (siot) in Korean! :) SSSSSS, the sound of rain perhaps? ;)
Thanks a lot for this concise way of memorising.I do appreciate
So good! Learned something new!
I am really impressed by the way a simple algorithm blows your mimd .imagine you try to figure out how dynamic programming in the case of hidden markov chains models works.
Really solid info, captain!
What a fantastic teacher!
for some reason i never thought you could do this with just index cards, i thought you needed a software haha but this is super straightforward! thanks! i think i might move to doing flashcards physically (i'm used to always doing them digitally).
Your a great teacher thanks for explaining that so well!
Your an amazing intellect. Ive been doing this subconsciously. I was convinced im mad
Thank you Atty. Tiamson for introducing me to professor Kaplan.
Love your channel. 👍🏻
Very good. I remembered Mango because I noted that it was a simpler form.
Who else was as easily able to memorise mango? Lol
Anyways thank you sir, I feel like the flash card technique you suggested can really help me!
From a law student ❤
Same lol, the moment he explained how to use mnemonic cues for "umbrella" I looked at the mango one and went "oh, that circle under a square looks like a mango under a box. Box of mangoes?" 😂 These tips were reallyyy helpful ^^
@@caseofkc2170 Same haha
The circle on the bottom
It was phonetic, so yes😅
The circle at the bottom.
Thanks Professor
Kudos👌
When I took an exam for a post office job many years ago. Approx.40 years. We were shown a series of boxes each with street names and address ranges for I think five minutes. Then you had to identify from memory which of the boxes the newly presented images of those streets and numbers appeared in. I focused so hard on those three street names all those years ago that I still remember them. Spruce, Wren and.Nye. Meanwhile I forget people's names in an instant.
I've been teaching myself a foreign language for 2 years. I've used pneumonic cues the whole time without knowing it. What amazes me the most is sheet size of vocabulary I've developed and yet my brain is able to keep processing and storing more and more cues.
Mnemonic, not “pneumonic”. Vastly different meanings 😂
I was waiting for this!!! Thank you! :)
This is amazing! this really does work! thanks professor Kaplan! wish i found your channel sooner before doing my professional certification test in cybersecurity which i failed woefully:) ... oh well better late than never
I totally agree with this. This is really beautiful ❤
Not a way to study, but you really think the clearest while travelling on foot I find.. Sort of like shower thought’s - great advice I took from Werner Herzog. Even a brief and pensive walk can be more revealing than hours of writing at home.
Good stuff! Thanks
Thank you for your content. I am currently learning biblical Greek and implementing your proposed methods. For spaced repetition I am using physical and electronic index cards (Flash Cards Deluxe). FCD does for me as exactly as you said, for the cards I don't know as well reappear sooner. For several cards I have associated a story which helps me remember. Thank you!
I taught adult students how to memorize a list of 10 totally unrelated words. I would list each member (word) from 1 to 10 and then tell them that in 30 minutes they would be able to not only remember all 10 things but if asked what was number 6 in the list, they would know. And then what was number 2, then 5, etc.
It was easy. All they had to do was associate each word with something that rhymed with their associated number, and the more extreme the association the easier it was to recall them in any order. Say the first word was 'house', you then think of a gun (rhymes with one) shooting a house. The second word could be 'grey', then think of a shoe (rhymes with two) that's grey. On and on with tree for three, door for four etc. Worked every time.
Yes, but that's to memorize a list. I don't think he's talking about a list. He's talking about an object in the definition.
I knew the one for mango. It is because I know and use the method described. You were talking about an umbrella, I was associating square with fruit...
Yep, this method works. Also, spaced repetition... I always use it for learning words of the language I am learning. But always the word has to be in a phrase. Not just word, but a word in use. So a card for spatial repetition works also as a mnemonic cue.
i associated it with a pattern to remember it and now i know it
The oval on the ground was the mango and there is a depiction of a tree on the right of the symbol... well at least in my mind.
This is pretty much how I take notes for maths and physics courses (self-taught through calc 2 and physics 2). First, I write everything the professor says down, then I apply it to a problem through visual and kinesthetic application. After that I write my own notes and use them to create a “system” that I repeat on every successive problem until I no longer need to look at my notes. Works every time. I pieced this process together through a few sources, but my biggest benefactor was Richard Feynman (absolute legend.)
I remembered the one for mango as well, I just looked for the 'potato' at the bottom. No story, just the round shape looked 'fruit or vegetable' like. Given a larger number of words, that probably wouldn't have worked as well. This reminds me of the ancient Greek method of attaching ideas for topics to places within your house and using an imagined walk through your house to remember the ideas. Hence the phrase 'in the first place ... second place ... etc.'
Thank you alot excellent video
It's storing - identifying consciously what you encounter, presenting it in mind and burning it into short term memory
binding by comparing- relating it to what you know, finding similarities differences, patterns, categorising it
so more like two things
the more of the hooks and realisations the better
sleeping - sorting new neural connections, solidifying them, making a physical structure in brain
and letting mind to process test it through dreaming
finding possibilities for new bindings or discarding failed connections
recalling - forcing memory to use the new neural paths making it stronger, adding connections and expanding structure
upgrading paths/roads - changing your delivery routes, creating backup pathways, managing traffic
also time of learning, stimuli that accompanied it like coffee matters
you will remember it better in the exact circumstances environment you were learning it
fasting will also improve recall, as brain loves ketones and stable high quality fuel without toxic fluctuations
I have untreated ADHD, and as a result, my memory is absolutely terrible and always has been.
James Heisig has written books for learning Chinese and Japanese characters and suggests using the exact techniques you describe here, and I was able to learn about 3000 Chinese characters using that technique, which is not something I ever thought I would be able to do.
Dude this is magic. Thank you so much!
You are the best!
You made me subscribe with watching only one video of your channel
Goooood lecture
Fantastic tips! As a grad student, I'm always looking for effective strategies to enhance my learning, and your methods of mnemonic cues and spaced repetition are definitely something I'll be implementing.
I do have a question about the use of index cards. I've found that creating and organizing physical index cards can be quite time-consuming, and there's always the risk of misplacing them. Do you have any tips for creating these cards quickly and keeping them organized?
Also, I'm curious about your thoughts on digital cards. Are there specific situations where you would recommend using digital cards over physical ones?
Again, thank you so much for sharing these valuable insights!
I just love this guy! He's brilliant! I got the Korean for mango, no problem. But I do know Chinese...
Thanks. New knowledge
I think it is a little strange because I clicked on this video because I thought it might help me study Korean. I had no idea you made this video just for me. Thank you.
Wow,
It works.
Thank you sir
The best lecture I've seen all year.
Currently system school have this bases : 1) with mnemonic cues in the label of themes and subthemes. It for this that it's important use tecnology in the clases to design more atractive mnemonic cues. 2) it is obvious that space repetion can be associated with assess and tasks.
1:04 Mnemonic (sounds like “pneumonic” [new-mon-ick]
3:32 Symbol + Story = Learning Meaning
When studying, you should always keep your notes in the order found in your text. Your memory works a lot like a file cabinet; if you put something into your brain in a systematic way, it is usually easy to retrieve it. Like a file drawer/cabinet, if you just cram things in anywhere they fit, you may have a difficult time finding them later. Most authors spend a lot of time on their outlines, so their end product is in proper order. Therefore, I recommend hole punching your homemade index/study cards and running an opened up paper clip through them and fastening the ends together so they stay in order. This can be really helpful in most subject areas!
I read in a book about memory that you have to be careful to not memorize the order versus the fact itself. Such as only being able to recall that the answer to 7 x 7 is 49, because that always comes after 7 x 6 is 42. In other words, after the initial memorization is pretty good, you should mix up the deck of cards to see if you have memorized the fact in isolation.
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I understand. Actually, memory techniques are intended only to be used to help you move items in short-term memory to longterm memory. Once you have learned the information, you no longer need the technique. Think of them like crutches. You throw them down when you don't need them anymore. Use whatever works for you.
this is how i learned a lot of japanese with "remembering the kanji" by james heisig. fun stuff!
I automatically used mnemonic ques before your example. The mango fell out of the tree and is laying on the ground. The T is the umbrella and the O above it is the water
The quiz at the end was extremely easy even when looking just with a corner of your eye earlier on. The bigger issues arise when you, for example, try to learn a language on a decent level. I studdied german for half a year or so, using Anki (spaced repetition) and it was going great 60% of the time, fine 30% and frustrating 10% of the time. The 10% being words I just couldn't get to stick no matter how often they came up...words or phrases, whatever. I also read, listened to audiobooks, I had a daily routine and I kept adding lots of words but after a few months it just became unsustainable. Yet if you stop at some point, many words just disappear from your memory untill you find them again, possibly translate again. This is kind of prohibitive if you truly want to communicate (or use knowlege). Nothing works unless you're chellenged to use the knowledge regularly in different circumstances.
Yes, I agree. Immersion is necessary in this case because there’s only so much textbook learning you can do. Exposure to those who speak the language on a daily basis would have elevated your learning.
Agreed. I've learned English fluently over many years, certainly not by reading books or making up stories, but by living there and by trying to comunicate with people on a daily basis.
Excellent summary of both memory strategies. As a former professor of cognitive psychology myself, I can attest that you've provided good summaries of these strategies. One suggestion -- please come up with a mnemonic to help you remember that "mnemonic" is not pronounced "pneumonic"; rather, the first syllable is pronounced like the first syllable of "nemesis".
While you were pointing out the umbrella, I was associating the oval laying on its side with the shape of a mango. Similar, helpful, nice demonstration. 😉😎
Spaced repetition is a method of reviewing material at systematic intervals. At the beginning of the learning process, the intervals are spaced closely together (for example, one hour; four hours; one day). As the material is reviewed, the intervals become systematically longer (four days; one week; two weeks).
Think was really helpful. I am trying to learn Italian. thank you ☺️
In simple words it’s about visualization and practicing it in time intervals.
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Mnemonics are like adhesive which allow us to stick two different ideas in memory.
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Great tips 😄
Also, your memory is different after you include writing. We write our flash cards, opposed to just looking at definitions.
Writing uses different facilities of the brain. Writing always facilitates deeper memories and learning. I got my first college "A" in Human Anatomy by simply outlining each chapter in my spiral notebook.✨
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I'm fascinated by how good you are as a teacher and how helpful this series is! As a physician here in Brazil, I've come across a bunch of techniques to memorize and retain information that sometimes seems too hard to grasp. I appreciate your work. Thank you, Professor Kaplan.
Interesting. I used index cards and always place the card I didn't know at the back of the pile. Will put them in the middle this time.
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Interestingly - though I have never studied Korean
only the unrelated language Chinese
I spotted the mango word
largely through a process of elimination
several of the other words had elements / letters
which I had not seen before
so could not be "mango"
I did find umbrella a lot quicker but I got mango too.
I think learning Chinese characters
meant I have trained my mind to seek clues
in the visual look of things
so I might be more attuned to looking for shapes
By the way, I studied Chinese 30 years ago
but my system for analysing characters
seems to be still there.
I just found your channel and I watched all the videos on studying. I like how you explain things.
on the topic of spaced repetition and retention, I want to know your thoughts on this:
I have actually been implementing spaced repetition for a couple years. I applied it when I was learning German, when I majored in engineering, and when I was learning programming on my own. but there is always this question that I have: I don't know when I should stop reviewing the flashcards or the information. I'm afraid that if I let go I will forget. but it's also not realistic to still be reviewing a course that you took in the first semester when you are in the last semester. (that would be a ton of flashcards and a ton of work) I usually let go after reviewing something about 3-4 times (the last one right before exams). so, when do you think one should let go of trying to retain the information? and what about after graduating, do we just let go of everything?
I got both of them correct. Your videos are very good.👍🏼
Thanks! Well done.
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