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06-25-2008, 05:52 AM
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| | | Want to Remember Everything: Surrender to this Algorithm?
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
Has anybody ever heard of: Super Memory
This guy is a bit of a nut but he's used it to learn a bunch of languages and I wonder how effective the algorithm would be for studying Greek or other tough things.
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06-25-2008, 07:42 AM
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Sounds a bit like the Pimsleur language method. Pimsleur repeats words at strategic intervals based on our rate of forgetfulness. This is a lot more scientific. The short coming for language, it seems, would be that it only teaches vocabulary and nothing more.
I'd be interested to hear more from those who have used this to learn a language. Thanks Rich for the post. I copied the article but I can't remember where I put it.
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06-25-2008, 08:15 AM
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It seems to work for this guy who has mastered the English language well enough to use words that most native speakers cannot figure out how to utilize.
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06-25-2008, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by BobVigneault  Sounds a bit like the Pimsleur language method. Pimsleur repeats words at strategic intervals based on our rate of forgetfulness. This is a lot more scientific. The short coming for language, it seems, would be that it only teaches vocabulary and nothing more.
I'd be interested to hear more from those who have used this to learn a language. Thanks Rich for the post. I copied the article but I can't remember where I put it. | Vocabulary is, IMO, the hardest thing about learning a language. If you learn the concepts of grammar, they are easily applicable to whatever language you may want to learn (Indo-European languages, at least).
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