Bonjour!
Here's why you keep forgetting (and relearning) the same vocabulary over and over again: you're focusing on recognition instead of retrieval. In today's episode, I'll show you what that means and how to learn vocabulary that sticks with one super easy adjustment.
In this episode, you'll learn:
why you keep learning vocabulary but it never sticks
how to train your brain and improve your memorisation
how this will help you reach fluency a lot faster.
Today's takeaway:
1. Focus on retrieval practice and get rid of recognition-based activities so that your vocabulary gets stored in your long-term memory. You will remember it fast, more easily and for longer.
2. Learn the English term first, then the French word, or learn new words with French only definitions.
3. Mix things up! Randomise your vocabulary lists!
4. Avoid multiple-choice answers and true-false quizzes, instead quiz yourself with short open-ended questions.
5. Practice guessing translations before you look up words or check answers.
6. Create word associations: synonyms, antonyms (opposites), word families...
Resources and references:
- Check out EP10: In 15min, you'll speak better French
Alors? Ça t'a plu?
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