{"id":13426,"date":"2017-01-18T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=13426"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T11:30:40","slug":"tell-me-all-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=13426","title":{"rendered":"Tell me all about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/01\/170117083830.htm\">Science Daily<\/a>, a good way to remember something you&#8217;re learnt is to tell someone else about it, or to test yourself on it.<\/p>\n<p>A study got students to watch films, then asked them to describe what they&#8217;d seen afterwards. Those who told someone about the films just after watching them remembered the core and peripheral details, whereas others only remember some of the core details.<\/p>\n<p>I use this technique quite often, without realising it &#8211; I like to talk about books I&#8217;ve read, films I&#8217;ve seen, and events I&#8217;ve been to, and find that if I do this not long afterwards, I tend to remember more details, and retain those memories longer.<\/p>\n<p>When learning languages I sometimes test myself on what I&#8217;ve learnt, and try to put the words and structures into new sentences to make little conversations. When I try to explain things to other people I find that there are often gaps in my knowledge, maybe because I leave it too long before doing this.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use these techniques at all?<\/p>\n<p>Do they work for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article on Science Daily, a good way to remember something you&#8217;re learnt is to tell someone else about it, or to test yourself on it. A study got students to watch films, then asked them to describe what they&#8217;d seen afterwards. Those who told someone about the films just after watching them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-language","category-language-learning","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}