Using Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve to Memorize Words

Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve is a line which slhows how information saved by our mind is lost over time when we do not review it. This curve is important because it tells people when to review knowledge is optimum. In other words, we can spend less time during a period to acquire the permanent recollection. So if we obey this curve to recite foreign languages, we will get the best effect on learning a new language.

Shanbay is a website which aims to teach native (Chinese) speakers to learn English in terms of listening, writing, speaking and reading. The biggest difference between this website and other foreign language learning websites is the learning method that follows the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve.

All of functions of this website are showed below.

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Shanbay	Memorizing Words	Making a Sentence	Listening	Reading	Group Chat	Elite	Test of Words Volume	Insurance of Quiz	Sign In	Sign Up

The most famous part in this website is Memorizing Words (Second Column). You need to sign up at first because this website records your data in order to provide you a long-term study plan. I have registered an account: User name: ljiayi@umich.edu; Key: 123456789. After you sign in, you will see:

Press the green button which means “Start Learning”, and then you will start reciting words. As this one:

On the bottom of this screenshot, red "2" means that after you saw these two words, you also do not know the meaning of that, the website will repeat these two words soon; green "2" means you have already know the meaning of two words showed before. The rest part "16" illustrates you will learn 16 new words soon.On the middle of this screenshot, "1" means you know this word, “2” means you don't know the meaning of this word.

After studying these words, the website will collect your data and then some words may occur after the several days. When and whether the word occurs again follow the rule of the Forgotten Curve.

Almost all of my friends in China who want to recite English words use this website to improve their English skills. Facts speak louder than eloquences. After reciting words form this website for more than a month, they told me they know a lot of new words and some of them also use these new words into writing the article.

Sometimes it is hard for students to learn new things or remember some physical rules. A better way to solve these problems is to repeat learning these things by following the forgetting cure.