Vocabulary You Forget is Still Part of Your Memory Vokabeln, die Sie vergessen haben, sind immer noch Teil Ihres Gedächtnisses El vocabulario que olvidas sigue formando parte de tu memoria Le vocabulaire que vous oubliez fait toujours partie de votre mémoire Il vocabolario che si dimentica fa ancora parte della memoria 忘れてしまった語彙も記憶の一部 Woordenschat die je vergeet maakt nog steeds deel uit van je geheugen Słownictwo, które zapomniałeś, wciąż jest częścią twojej pamięci O vocabulário que esquecemos ainda faz parte da nossa memória Словарь, который вы забыли, все равно остается в вашей памяти Unuttuğunuz Sözcükler Hala Hafızanızın Bir Parçası Лексика, яку ви забуваєте, все ще залишається у вашій пам'яті 你忘记的词汇仍然是你记忆的一部分 你忘記的詞彙仍然是你記憶的一部分

Actually, I was kind of stirring up my reserve. Eigentlich wollte ich meine Zurückhaltung aufwühlen. En realidad, estaba como removiendo mi reserva. 実際、私は自分の準備金をかき立てていました。 Na verdade, eu estava a agitar a minha reserva. На самом деле, я как бы активизировал свою резервацию.

Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here, and today I wanna continue talking

about the importance of forgetting in learning vocabulary and the

importance of building up a reserve. wie wichtig es ist, eine Rücklage aufzubauen.

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So I did a video about the importance of forgetting.

Not only should we not be frustrated because we forget things because

we're going to forget things, we need to recognize that the, the act of

forgetting is helping us build a reserve. Das Vergessen hilft uns, eine Reserve zu bilden.

And I'm reminded of that because I'm giving a talk on Monday Y me acuerdo de eso porque voy a dar una charla el lunes

to a group of lawyers in Kiev, Ukraine about language learning.

I was contacted through, uh, LinkedIn probably as a result of the videos Me contactaron a través de LinkedIn, probablemente como resultado de los videos.

that I did, uh, telling people that, um, Ukrainians have free access

to LingQ, whether they're refugees in other countries or in Ukraine.

By the way, the same offer is available to other refugees. Das gleiche Angebot gilt übrigens auch für andere Flüchtlinge.

They could be Afghans, Ethiopians, you name it.

Through that, so I was contacted by this person. A través de eso, fui contactado por esta persona.

I'm gonna give a talk and I'm gonna talk a bit about my experience

in learning languages, obviously.

And it just so happened that in order to prepare for my talk to Y sucedió que para prepararme para mi charla con

these Ukrainians where I'm gonna speak in both Ukrainian and English, estos ucranianos donde voy a hablar tanto en ucraniano como en inglés,

I decided to refresh my Ukrainian.

And what struck me was that as I was going through my mini stories in Y lo que me llamó la atención fue que mientras revisaba mis mini historias en

Ukrainian, you know, learning some of the basic, you know, high frequency

verbs and the patterns of Ukrainian triggered the memory of other bits

of Ukrainian, other expressions.

So by working my mini stories, which I have done many, many times, actually,

I was kind of stirring up my reserve. Estaba como removiendo mi reserva.

And so I think it's very important that when we learn a language, and

this is what I said in that previous video, we shouldn't sort of be too esto es lo que dije en ese video anterior, no deberíamos ser demasiado

narrowly focused on trying to make sure that we can retrieve things, that

we can remember things that, and, and therefore we get upset if we don't podemos recordar cosas que, y, por lo tanto, nos enfadamos si no lo hacemos

remember or we can't find the word. recordar o no podemos encontrar la palabra.

That may not matter that much, at least in the short run or even in the medium term.

What we wanna do is build up our reserve.

And so then I thought about how I use LingQ, and I realized that really

the LingQs that I create, which are my yellow words, is my reserve. los LingQs que creo, que son mis palabras amarillas, son mi reserva.

These are words that I have met. Estas son palabras que he conocido.

I know I've met them before because they're yellow.

They're no longer blue but they aren't yet white.

A white word is one which I feel I know, at least in a given context.

It doesn't mean that I know all possible, you know, interpretations or uses of that

word, nor which other words that word is used together with, but in a given palabra, ni con qué otras palabras se usa esa palabra junto, sino en un 単語、またはその単語が一緒に使用される他の単語ではありませんが、与えられた

context it doesn't give me any trouble. contexto no me da ningún problema.

I understand that word in that context.

I get meaning out of that sentence or that paragraph. Entiendo el significado de esa oración o ese párrafo. 私はその文またはその段落から意味を理解します。 Я улавливаю смысл этого предложения или абзаца.

That means it's known. Eso significa que es conocido.

So that's white.

But the yellow words are words that, I see them and I still don't know them.

So they're the words that I have perhaps certainly have seen, but I've forgotten. Así que son las palabras que tal vez ciertamente he visto, pero las he olvidado.

Maybe at one point I knew them and I've moved them back to yellow. Tal vez en algún momento los conocí y los volví a poner en amarillo.

These are words in my reserve.

These are my forgotten words.

The creative forgetting l'oubli créateur as Proust said, and it's El olvido creativo l'oubli créateur como decía Proust, y es

important to have a lot of these words.

So the known words, the white words, the known words, are ones that I Así que las palabras conocidas, las palabras blancas, las palabras conocidas, son las que yo

can retrieve at least passively in terms of reading and understanding.

So if I look at my statistics in a language like Ukrainian, where

I benefit from having learned Russian and Czech and so forth.

So I have a lot of known words, almost 60,000 known words.

Not so many yellow words, and many of those yellow words are in fact words that No tantas palabras amarillas, y muchas de esas palabras amarillas son de hecho palabras que

I know that I haven't yet moved to known. Sé que aún no me he mudado a conocido.

So there the reserve and the words that I can retrieve are Así que ahí está la reserva y las palabras que puedo recuperar

kind of similar in number. tipo de similar en número.

Uh, if I were to go in French, for example, and if I were to study French

at LingQ, I would find that I would have very, you know, a far smaller number

in the sort of unretrievable reserve.

In other words, yellow words that are still yellow that haven't become white.

On the other hand, if I go to Arabic and Persian, I see a different story.

I see that in Arabic going from memory. Veo que en árabe va de memoria.

Here I have 60,000 saved LingQs.

My reserve is enormous, but I only know 20,000 of those.

And if I, having left Arabic, maybe that number is even

smaller because the reserve, the forgotten words is even greater. kleiner, weil die Reserve, die vergessenen Worte, noch größer ist.

But eventually I will activate those. Pero eventualmente los activaré.

Uh, the words that are in my reserve in Persian, the ratio is also three to one. Uh, las palabras que están en mi reserva en persa, la proporción también es de tres a uno.

I have 30,000 saving LingQs, but only 12,000 or so known words.

Bearing in mind that these, the status here can change. Teniendo en cuenta que estos, el estado aquí puede cambiar.

You can have something that's known that then goes back to

unknown and goes back to known.

But the idea is that when you are at the stage where I am in Arabic and

Persian I have the, my reserve is three times larger than the words that I can

at least understand and that's fine.

And I think the big message that I wanna sort of put across here

is don't worry about forgetting, considering consider forgetting to

be an important part of learning.

You are building up your reserve.

You need a large reserve so that eventually you can activate these words

and have a, a functioning, you know, a large functioning vocabulary so that y tener un, un funcionamiento, ya sabes, un gran vocabulario funcional para que

you can understand movies, you can have intelligent conversations with people,

you can move in the direction of fluency.

So forgetting and building up your reserve is an important

part of moving towards fluency.

And I'll leave you with a couple of videos that I've done in the past

about memory and remembering and how that effects uh, language learning.

So thank you very much for listening.

Bye for now.