Looking for a revolutionary new way to learn English vocabulary that is free? Would you like to learn thousands of new words at an astounding rate? Would you like to learn these new words from the finest English books in the world? Would you like this dramatic improvement in your vocabulary to be permanent? Would you like to score high on the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, or TOEFL exams with your reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing scores all rising? Could you achieve all this with a study method that is actually enjoyable and free?
Welcome to UnforgettableWords.com, a website that brings classic English literature, a memory retention methodology known as graduated interval recall, accelerated learning technology, and extensive word lists (including SAT word lists and GRE word lists) together for you. The result is dramatic growth in your vocabulary at an astonishingly speedy rate. With this fun program, your test scores will rise and your writing will be more powerful. Your peers will respect you when you speak. You'll interview more impressively and people will perceive your ideas as more intelligent. Colleges and employers will want you to join their organizations.
What can be new and revolutionary in vocabulary learning? The truth is that Dr. Paul Pimsleur, a brilliant linguist and renowned professor of foreign languages utilized the graduated interval recall method for years prior to his death in 1976. The best foreign language courses that bear his name still use it today. It's definitely not new. What is new since Dr. Pimsleur's time is the electronic computer. UnforgettableWords.com uses the power of the computer to implement graduated interval recall in an easy and efficient manner. To understand graduated intervall recall and how the computer can implement it far more effectively now than linguists could in the 1960's, consider the following thought experiment:
Imagine that you spend several hours studying thirty words that are unfamiliar to you. You learn them by completing nine exercises for each word in a vocabulary workbook over the course of one week. At the end of the week, you know all thirty of these words. You can recall their meaning and usage from your short-term memory. But how many will you remember six months later? Probably very few because your brain deletes information from your short-term memory if it doesn't soon need to recall it.
Suppose instead that during the first week you complete just three exercises for each of the words. By week-end you know the words and their usage fairly well. The next week, you complete a fourth exercise for each of the words. This forces your brain to recall the information from short-term memory. Your brain recognizes that you seem to have a need to recall these words' meanings so it stores away the information in longer-term memory. Two weeks later, you complete a fifth exercise for each word and four weeks after that a sixth. With each repetition, your brain recalls the information, realizes there's a need for long-term recall, and stores it away again in successively longer-term memory. After repetitions 7, 8, and 9 after 2 month, 4 month, and 8 month intervals, you have learned the usage and meaning of the words well. You have completed the same 9 exercises for each word as the one week program. Amazingly, however, instead of forgetting the words in a few weeks, you will be able to recall these words more than a year later! Better still, it's likely that in that next year, you'll recall most of these words again in the course of your normal reading. You'll never forget most of these words! It's incredibly efficient!
Graduated interval recall is intentionally forcing the recall of information at gradually increasing intervals to "burn" the information into long-term memory. It is an absolutely amazingly powerful aid in efficiently and permanently learning any material and especially vocabulary.
To learn vocabulary with graduated interval recall, however, you'll need multiple vocabulary exercises for the thousands of words you'll now be able to learn. The exercises should include the word used in different contexts so that you can learn both the meaning of the word and the proper usage. Selecting excerpts from the finest English literature will make the exercises interesting and enjoyable. You'll need a computer program to schedule all the repetitions for these thousands of words, deliver the exercises to you on the right day, and score your answers immediately.
There's one more thing, however, that the computer can do to boost your learning rate. How far apart should the repetitions be spaced? After the first exposure to a word, should you repeat an exercise the next day? Maybe you'll still remember three days later or even a week? The answer, unfortunately, is that every person and even every word is different. The proper spacing for a child may be quite different than for an adult. Words that are "hard" may require more frequent repetitions than easier ones. UnforgettableWords.com will analyze your individual performance at remembering new vocabulary words and "learn" how to space future words so that you'll remember them. Initially, the computer will space the words as a typical person needs them. After a month or so of use, the computer will have enough data to begin adjusting the spacing to your individual needs. After a few months of use, the computer knows your memory and will space the repetitions exactly when you need them to prevent forgetting. You'll learn new words at an amazing rate. And you'll remember them!
UnforgettableWords.com has a database of nearly 10,000 words with 20 unique exercises for each word. It is the solution for standardized test preparation. Included are lists of the 500 most frequently occurring words on the SAT and the 400 most frequently occurring words on the GRE. With a few years to study, homeschoolers or other dedicated studiers can gain a great advantage on the SAT or ACT by learning all 7000 words in the database that are likely to appear on these tests. See the standardized test page for more details. The higher scores are achieved not by some cram test-prep course but by actually improving your verbal ability! Scores on reading comprehension and writing portions of standardized tests will rise along with the sections that explicitly test vocabulary. Lists are also available for those learning English as a second language or preparing for the TOEFL exam.
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