Understand the forgetting curve
More than half of what you learn disappears within 24 hours. The key fact: forgetting slows down every time you review. After the first review a word survives days; after the next, weeks. That is why reviews work better spread out than crammed together.
Design your intervals: same day → 3 days → 1 week → 1 month
An easy rule beats a perfect formula. See a new word once before bed the same day, then after 3 days, 1 week, and 1 month. If a word comes back instantly, stretch its interval; if you blank on it, shorten the interval again.
Recall it — don't just reread it
Rereading a list isn't reviewing; it's sightseeing. Cover the meaning and try to recall it, then flip it: see only the meaning and say the word. Memories you struggle to retrieve are the ones that last. Getting it wrong is fine — the miss itself is the strongest learning signal.
Automate reviews with quizzes
The biggest enemy of spaced repetition is friction. Turning your saved words into quizzes gives you active recall without deciding what to review when. juin's Play converts your word list straight into games, so five minutes of play a day becomes your review routine.
COMMON MISTAKES
Common spaced-repetition mistakes
Cramming everything in one day like it's exam eve — short-term scores rise, but most of it is gone in a month. Skimming with your eyes and trusting the feeling of knowing — without retrieval, memory doesn't strengthen. Deleting the words you got wrong — those are exactly the words that need shorter intervals and another meeting.
Open it in juin.com
Words you save in Search become quizzes in Play. One round tonight with today's words, another this weekend — that is spaced repetition, started.