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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

It's Friday, and in general our Friday episodes will mostly consist of some

quizzing material you can

use to consolidate and practice everything you've learned throughout the week. But first, let's address

something that most new students ask us. Why is it that we spend so much of our podcast time on

quizzing? Couldn't this quizzing time be used more productively if we were to teach

more vocabulary and grammar instead of drilling the same things over and over? Well, here's the

thing about having so many quizzes. There's a very well-researched phenomenon called the testing

effect. And this might be different from what you think of when you hear the

word testing. Of course, we're all familiar with the idea of taking tests to find out how well

we've learned something, and that is important. But actually, testing or quizzing doesn't

just measure how well you're doing. It turns out that when you test yourself,

it actually boosts your learning. All the little quizzes throughout this show serve as little

checks to see if you've retained what's being taught, but even more importantly, if you take

these little quizzes seriously, it will accelerate how fast you learn the material.

Participating in the quizzes actively, not passively, and actually trying to do well on them,

will help you learn at least 200% better.

Studies have shown over and over again that the mere act of making a guess or trying to answer a question on a quiz

solidifies what you're learning in your brain. And believe it or not, this holds true even if you're

pretty sure you can't come up with the right answer. Researchers call this surprising phenomenon

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