Increasing and Keeping What You Learn

The suggestions and steps posted at The Language Station can and should be repeated. So if a "Tip" says to make 5-10 phrases total in your "Phrase List," that is my recommended total until you have learned them well. Once you have those items under your belt, you need to make another list of 5-10, and keep repeating the process until lists aren't necessary anymore.

To keep what you have...well...forgive me for stating the obvious. But the old adage is true: Use it or lose it! Many language learners expect unnatural memory retention. They learn something, don't use it and probably don't see it again and then they complain, "It just doesn't stick."

But in the early learning stages, if you want to remember words, phrases or grammatical rules, you either must use them frequently in conversation (however broken and incorrectly you may speak), or you need to be daily reviewing in some form what you have learned previously!

 In my next post, I'll tell you....nope. You'll have to wait and see =)

Until then, happy language learning!