I'm having trouble remembering the lesson a few days after, any tips?
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Welcome to the forum, Logan.
You, like me, may do best with a kinesthetic learning style:
Kinesthetic learning is a learning style in which learning takes place by the student actually carrying out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or merely watching a demonstration. It is also referred to as tactile learning. People with a kinesthetic learning style are also commonly known as do-ers.
So, I find that physically taking notes, actually writing down what I see and hear in a lesson, helps me quite a bit. For vocabulary building I write out many flashcards and keep them by my bed for reviewing in the morning and night. Then I switch them to new words the next week. It really helps!
Many people compliment me on my great memory, but it's only because I write everything down on paper and can visualize what I wrote.
¡Buena suerte!
Just keep on revewing them over and over and over till you can go on a spanish channel and see and remember one of the words you learned on SpanishDict......
Do it again. I rarely remember things just seeing them once. Don't feel bad.
Reviewing is a bit boring, so I like to have a range of things I'm learning from. Like there's a whole bunch of websites that do "directions" so to revise the "directions" lesson on this website I'll do the one on Live Mocha or in one of my books.
I agree with the suggestion about taking notes. You might also benefit from drawing and doodling the information. This is hard to explain in a written post, of course, but the basic idea is to scatter several short phrases summarizing what you're trying to remember around a piece of paper and then doodle and color around them and think of ways to relate them to each other. Draw lines and other shapes to help you "see" connections.
Then, after your first try at this, look at the page and redo it on a new page. See if you can "draw" the connections between the ideas. For instance, you may find it easier to remember the way to conjugate a verb by making a separate shape for each person of a single verb - hablo, hablas, habla, etc. Or you may find it easier to make a page with several different verbs, all in the same tense, person, and number - hablo, puedo, trabajo, como, sé.
The idea is to come up with a personalized visual expression of what you're trying to remember. I have used this for many different kinds of information and it works well for me.
I usually don't continue to the next segment of a lesson unless I answer it up to at least 90%. Then I repeat the lesson and breeze through it. I also type an outline of key parts that I need to review, i.e., any new phrases, nouns, infinitives, acronyms, etc. I review my notes from previous lessons between 5-10 minutes everyday.
Hope that helps. ¡Buena suerte!
