Learn Any Language Fluently - Tips from Polyglot Gabriel Wyner
English Like A Native Podcast
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How Does Space Repetition Help You to Learn a Language?
The idea is I have a flashcard the flashcard has a picture of this. And on the backside of the flashcard it says, I know flash it. So one day it shows up and it says, what's this and you tell it okay yeah I got it. There's a computer program that that sees that and says okay well you knew it. Let me show you this to you in four days now. It's just it expands it tests you and it expands the interval then whenever you mess it up it shrinks the interval. Space repetition increases your retention like not just by 20% or 100% it increases it by 300 to 400%.
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