How I increased by 10% your vocabulary with Memrise

How, finally, to learn English?

Teach, you forget, teach you forget... The process is stretched to infinity! Today let's talk about how quickly and permanently memorize thousands of words. And it's not mnemonics or "memory palace". The principle on which operates Memrise program, science has discovered recently.

Interval memorization - you've heard of him? Not?

It turns out that one forgets for a singular curve. It looks like this:

We learned something new. And after two hours we can forget up to 80% of the studied!

Interval storage (FROM): if you repeat the material in strictly defined intervals, it will not be forgotten. First you repeat an hour later, then six hours, then the next day, and so on... The more, the more intervals, and the less time you spend.

Is not it great?

This principle has turned my life around. He influenced the way I teach language and reading a book.

cards

cards are commonly used for FM. Paper (which is inconvenient), or program type Anki and SuperMemo.

It looks like this:

But the creators Memrise gone the other way... They're the most simplified. No cards. Simple principle: one question - one answer. And the correct answer defines the service itself (in Anki, for example, do it yourself).

In addition to the FM, when there are two other life hacking to remember:

• mnemonics (whatever it's called "add meme");
• Visualization - by the way, you can tie a bright picture.

I show an example.

Word mittens (Mittens) can remember, imagine how your friend Mitya put his hands on kittens (Kittens) instead of mittens.

We make it in the program:

Knowledge check

Actually, for the sake of all and was started.

Knowledge Memrise checked (repeated) in two ways.

You either choose from 4-8 options:

Drives a word either on the keyboard:

Pay attention to the circle in the upper right corner - nasty timer. :)

It is on the PC.

App for smartphone

About it should be discussed separately. This is generally a cool idea - repeated on a smartphone. It is this feature that makes of the bombs! Because now you can repeat the words wherever!

I have stood a minute in the queue? We got a smartphone and 5-10 words enshrined in the memory. Incredibly convenient!

It looks like this:

App for smartphone cropped compared to a PC. It is only for recurrence and for nothing else.

Memrise: that like

• Simplicity. Once you start to use it, it is not necessary to go into a certificate.
• Synchronization. Words fly from PC to smartphone. All works accurately.
• Ease of creating memes. Memrise itself offers a suitable image from Google Images:

Memrise: That was not pleasant

• If you take a bunch of "Russian - English", the word in the dictionary minuscule. Yes, he knows cat and dogBut does not know the word triangle. In short, he knows nothing of what I need. We have to google translation. And the score manually. Why it was impossible to connect the same dictionary Google?
• No pronunciation. This is very bad. Instead, you are encouraged to write down how the word sounds. :) Pronunciation there is a Quick Set (of which below), but they do not fit me.
• You can not add mnemopravilo and picture immediately. Only the first training by clicking on "Help me remember."

Total: work with the words uncomfortable.

Other

The program includes a bunch of presets (courses). By the way, this is not necessarily the words. You can also learn:

• historical dates;
• capital of the world and so on.

There is a social function (and where it is now is not?). You sort of can compete with others and set records. But I did not like. I focus on the points do not pay. Nothing I did not give them.

Is it worth paying

The paid version costs $ 9 per month.

What do you get for that:

• Statistics remembering that shows what time you remember better. Frankly, I do not see this value.
• Statistics of difficult words. That makes sense. For example, you can create a meme is not for all the words, but only for the most complex.

I use the free version. Its more than enough.

in total

Service nice, wish it to evolve.

I learned over time of writing 300 words, ie about 10% increased their vocabulary. Not bad. :)

And yes, it never replaced the active study. What, in fact, lies the Anki Memrise, that it is possible to make much deeper cards ...

Practice the language! A Memrise - it just kostylok to start.

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