The science of not forgetting
Five days, one short email a day, each built on research you can check. By Friday you'll know exactly why you forget what your tutor teaches you, and exactly what fixes it.
Language learners drown in tips and starve for mechanisms. This course is 5 mechanisms, one a day, in plain English, with the papers linked if you want to go deeper.
What arrives, day by day
- Your lesson is already fading.The forgetting curve, measured in 1885 and replicated in 2015, and the uncomfortable math it implies about what you're paying a tutor for.
- The catch, timed right.How spaced review flattens the curve, and the 317-experiment meta-analysis behind it.
- Re-reading is a placebo.The Science paper where tested students kept ~80% of foreign vocabulary and re-readers kept ~35%.
- Your streak is lying to you.Recognition vs. recall, and the honest number to track instead.
- The method works, the labor kills it.Why almost nobody sustains the proven method by hand, with the hours counted.
Day 5 ends with a pitch for Verbamor, one paragraph, clearly labeled. The other 4 days and about 95% of the words are just the science. If you never want the app, the course is still worth your 10 minutes; the mechanisms work with index cards.
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Your first email arrives within the hour. One a day after that, then it stops. Unsubscribe kills it instantly, no hard feelings.
No spam beyond the 5 days. The unsubscribe link rides in every email.
Prefer it all at once? The same material lives across the research page and the blog, unabridged. The course is the paced version, because pacing is sort of the whole point around here.
Or watch the science run on your own lessons.
Verbamor applies all five mechanisms to what your tutor actually teaches you, automatically, and shows you the retention number to prove it.
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