Hi Thomas,

That’s a great idea.

I kept the example in the post simple, because that’s usually what does the trick. I think for some words it’s harder to find something “close to home” to associate it with. It may take longer.

But you can use any form of usage of the word and then apply spaced repetition to it. The most important thing in this particular example is the coupling of the usage of the word with spaced repetition.

Thanks for your comment,
Noel

I practice RS, I find this technique very effective.
You talk about putting the word in a sentence, so you talk about the importance of context to remember the word. By incorporating the word that I want to remember in a specific context, which is more a context that brings me a pleasant emotion, I will remember it better.
For example, I want to remember the word “shoe”, as a sentence I can use: “I put on my walking shoes to go for a walk in the mountains”. I like the mountain, talking about it and imagining it makes me happy. I associate the image of the mountain and the emotion that it gives me to the image and the word “shoe”, in this way I retain the word better.

Thomas Ricomard