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How languages actually get learned: the research, the street language textbooks are scared of, and the methods that hold up when someone checks.

2026-11-07

How to actually remember Russian vocabulary: spaced repetition explained

Why you forget new Russian words in days and how spaced repetition and retrieval practice fix it. Based on Ebbinghaus, Roediger and Karpicke (2006), and Cepeda et al. (2006).