Name: Stuck at intermediate English with no progress?
Uploaded: 2023-12-09T19:31:51.000Z
Duration: 12 min 34 s
Description: British accent Slow speaking Natural pronunciationLearn the English Usage: plateau,language,learning,intermediate,curve,pendulum,participant,language learning,separately,vocabulary,forgetting,linear,ability,forgets,skill,group,effort,learner,chart,tested,combine,pronunciation,grammar,experiment,learned,rarely,improving,adult,common,communicate,gift,moment,people,basic,successful,stop...

Adverbs of degree

even though you're still making a lot of effort?

As you can see, people's language ability

In other words, this is something that happens

whether you learn a language as a baby or as an adult

is a normal and unavoidable part of language learning

Just 100 words make up 50% of most English

Let's put Zipf's curve next to the learning curve

Zipf's curve is the exact opposite of the learning curve

But unfortunately, our brains are really,

to test the way that our brain forgets information

For five years, he meticulously tested his own memory

using more than 2000 "nonsense words" that he created

which has been confirmed by modern neuroscience

and the only way to stop it from forgetting

you need to have multiple repetitions of that word

and this has serious practical consequences

estimates that to have enough repetitions

but we almost never use words in isolation

This is a basic recreation of how it worked

The experiment tested three different skills

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Stuck at intermediate English with no progress?

stick

pronunciation

incredible

mindset