No matter how long I study ___ I will never remember ___

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Re: No matter how long I study ___ I will never remember ___

Postby Serpent » Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:13 pm

I often feel that no matter how long I study Italian I will never learn to use di/da correctly. But that's getting better too :D
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Re: No matter how long I study ___ I will never remember ___

Postby Iversen » Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:10 pm

I have already forgotten most of the things I have learnt, and unless something reminds me of the void left by the passage into oblivion I won't even know what it is I have forgotten. But if I study long enough then I may accidentally stumble over the forgotten items, and the second time it is marginally less likely that I will forget them again soon. That's one good reason for writing things down.

The most irritating thing is when I remember something that point to the void left by a forgotten item in such a vague or irrelevant way that it doesn't help me to retrieve the item.
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Re: No matter how long I study ___ I will never remember ___

Postby neofight78 » Thu Sep 21, 2017 5:44 am

No matter how long I study at Novosibirsk State University I will never remember my pass every time :oops: :lol:
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Re: No matter how long I study ___ I will never remember ___

Postby DangerDave2010 » Thu Sep 21, 2017 10:01 am

try figuring these sentences out, I'm sure you will learn it in one session:

https://lextutor.ca/cgi-bin/conc/wwwass ... ide=either

Click on the word for the larger context if necessary.
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Re: No matter how long I study ___ I will never remember ___

Postby mick33 » Sat Sep 23, 2017 6:19 am

No matter how long I study Spanish, I will never remember the pretérito tense conjugations, though I think remember when it should be used :? .

Another one is that no matter how long I study various languages, I thought I would never remember to balance learning vocabulary with learning relevant grammar points, but I hope I'm finally getting it right!
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