![]() The best thing "is to learn a word right when you're about to forget it". So should I have simply drilled French food vocabulary every morning over my petits déjenuers? No, Boser says. As Ulrich Boser, author of Learn Better, suggested to me, the human mind is not simply a computer we will forget things, at a fairly predictable rate. Learning is forgetting or, more accurately, it's virtually forgetting that we know something, but then being able to magically retrieve it when called upon. A meal! I should have intuited this from the English "repast". ![]() "I eat…" Wait, what was repas? My mind drifted to arepas, the Colombian snack. I clicked it, and was asked to translate: Je mange un repas. The "food" category was particularly threatened, coded red (for danger) with just one "strength bar" remaining. After months spent away from the language-learning app Duolingo, my level-five French skills were in decline.
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