Learning Memory

Remember more than the word

Imagine that you find a useful expression while reading an article.

You check what it means and decide that you want to learn it. When you save it, Vocafy can keep the expression together with the sentence where you found it and the meaning or translation that was relevant in that sentence.

It can also keep track of whether you are currently learning the expression or already know it, and record important activity around it over time.

This means that when you come back to the expression later, you have more than an isolated word in a list. You can still see where it came from and what it meant when you decided it was worth learning.

Use what you saved again

Saving useful vocabulary is only the beginning.

The expression you found in that article can later become part of your review. You might have to recall it from its meaning, complete the original sentence, write it from memory or recognise it when you hear it.

You can also listen to the expression and its example sentence as part of your listening practice.

If the same word appears in another supported text, Vocafy can show that it is already part of your vocabulary instead of treating it as something completely new.

And when you talk with the AI tutor, the conversation can make use of vocabulary you are already learning. If a useful new expression comes up there, you can save that as well.

The point is not simply to keep a record of what you have done. It is to make what you have already learned useful again when you continue with another kind of activity.

Keep the original context

A word on its own often does not tell the whole story.

Many words have several meanings, and a translation that is correct in one sentence may be wrong in another. Even when the meaning is clear, the original sentence can help you remember how the expression was actually used.

That is why Vocafy can save vocabulary together with its source sentence and the meaning or translation that was relevant there.

Later, when the same expression returns in review or another activity, you do not have to reconstruct why you saved it in the first place.

Let different parts of Vocafy know what you are learning

Without a shared record, reading, vocabulary practice, listening and conversation can easily become separate activities.

You may save a word while reading, but your review tool does not know about it. You may practise a word elsewhere, but the next text still treats it exactly like a word you have never seen before.

Vocafy is designed so that supported parts of the system can work with the same information about your vocabulary.

A word can have a learning status:

• Not learning – it is part of your vocabulary or a collection, but you are not currently learning it.
• Learning – it is something you are actively working on.
• Known – you consider it something you already know.

Because this information is shared, supported content and practice tools can respond to what is already part of your vocabulary instead of each feature keeping its own separate version.

Build a history over time

Learning a word rarely happens in one moment.

You may first notice it in a text, save it, practise it a few days later, meet it again in a video and eventually decide that you know it well enough.

Vocafy can keep important parts of that history together.

This makes it possible to look back at when vocabulary was saved, how its learning status changed, where some of your encounters came from and how you have practised it.

You do not need to manage this history manually. It builds as you use supported parts of Vocafy.

See and manage your knowledge

Learning Memory works across Vocafy, but you also have a place where you can see much of this information yourself.

In My Knowledge, you can browse your vocabulary, see what you are learning, find recently added words, check your progress and look back at your learning history.

You can also change whether a word is Not learning, Learning or Known and start practising the vocabulary you are currently working on.

Explore My Knowledge

Keep learning in the way that suits you

Learning Memory does not require you to follow one fixed course or one fixed order of activities.

You might spend one day reading and saving a few useful expressions. Later you might review them, listen to them, meet them again in another text or use some of them while talking with the tutor.

Vocafy does not currently choose your next activity for you. You decide what you want to do.

Learning Memory simply helps the parts that are connected to it remember what you have already saved, learned and worked with.