The scientific, efficient way to learn languages: "spaced repetition" | Quartz

Before your trip abroad, you hit the flashcards hard. You memorized how to say essential words and phrases like "hello," "where is the bathroom," and "I'll have a beer." But once you arrived, it's like your brain had never encountered the language at all. Words would not come. It's not you, it's how you used...

Before your trip abroad, you hit the flashcards hard. You memorized how to say essential words and phrases like "hello," "where is the bathroom," and "I'll have a beer." But once you arrived, it's like your brain had never encountered the language at all. Words would not come. It's not you, it's how you used...