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Hey there, this is Teachola podcast episode 325.

The Google effect is ruining your vocabulary.

You read English, you understand English.

You've been learning for years, but when it's time to speak, your mind just freezes and the words don't come out.

My name's Ola and this is Teacher Ola Podcast.

This isn't about perfect grammar or fancy vocabulary.

This is about your voice, your words, your real English.

Jest w rzeczywistości nazwa na to.

Nazywa się to efekt Google, czy digitalna amnezja, czy amnezja.

This doesn't just affect vocabulary.

It can make English tenses feel fragile in your head, make you hesitate when speaking or even make you overthink every sentence.

Basically your brain stops building its own memory system because it knows Google is always there.

And that's why I'm inviting you to my free live webinar English Tenses vs Poles

It's happening on February the 1st at 8pm.

I'll show you how to stop relying on external memory and finally understand English tenses in a way that actually sticks without just memorizing rules.

To jest prawdziwe i naukowcy nawet mają na to imię, efekt Google, także nazwany digitalnym amnezmem.

To oznacza, że nasze mózgi zmieniają sposób, w jaki pamiętają rzeczy, ponieważ internet, zwłaszcza urządzenia, takie jak Google,

is always there to help us find answers.

You can always take out your phone and check whatever you want.

Back in 2011 a psychologist named Betsy Sparrow and her colleagues did a real experiment on this.

They asked students to read random facts and then tried to test how well they remembered them later.

Some students were told that their answers would be saved on a computer so they could look them up again.

Others were told that their answers would be erased or deleted, right?

Of course, the students who thought the information was saved

To oczywiste.

W rzeczywistości, może to tylko wyrazić to, jak memoria adaptuje się do świata, w którym informacja zawsze jest kilka klików od siebie.

The Internet becomes like a giant external memory source, similar to that, to, you know, to this example.

of my mother.

So this matters for your daily life and for learning languages too.

If you always check Google or your phone app for translations instead of trying to remember vocabulary actively, your brain doesn't get practice

Storing those words, keeping them in your brain.

But if you try to recall things yourself, that's how you can strengthen your memory.

At the end of this episode I'll tell you details on how to strengthen that muscle, but please wait for it.

Listen to this.

Instead of letting the internet replace your memory, you can decide when to use it as a tool and when to challenge your brain to remember things on its own.

That way your memory stays strong and you still get all the benefits of technology, of course.

So now I'm going to give you three practical tips on how to memorize English words better, especially if you feel like you've got this Google effect and you forget things too easily.

These are techniques I use as a language teacher and that research shows it really works.

They really work.

Na przykład, jeśli po prostu nauczysz się słowa, nie wiem, Astonishing.

Rzeczywistość pokazuje, że robienie pracy mózgu w trakcie zbierania informacji na własną stronę, sprawia, że ona jest dużo lepsza, niż po prostu zrozumienie jej w tekście, wizualnie.

Nawet jeśli robisz błąd, to nie ma znaczenia.

Spaced repetition is when you review words at gradually increasing intervals.

And also not every day, but like after one day, then three days, then a week, then three weeks, you know.

This technique helps your brain transfer words into long term memory.

Włożcie go w słowo, czy w krótką historię, czy w minidialog, tak aby twój mózg połączył je z znaczeniem i kontekstem.

To znaczy, pozwól, żeby twój mózg trochę się krzywdził, wiesz, zanim sprawdzisz odpowiedź.

Tym sposobem zapamiętacie rzeczy dłużej i tak, te małe wyzwania pomagają wam zostać mniej skupieni na Google czy chatach GPT.

Listen and repeat ten sentences from today's episode.

Google is always there to help us find answers.

Google is always there to help us find answers.

They asked students to read random facts.

They asked students to read random facts.

They knew they could look the map later.

That's how you strengthen your memory We might not pay enough attention We hand over responsibility to our gadgets

If today's episode gave you a clearer view of how your memory works with English words and why we sometimes forget things too easily, I'd love to invite you to my upcoming webinar English Tenses vs Poles, Angielskie Czasy vs Polacy.

We'll explore the most common tense mistakes Polish learners make, why they happen and how to finally choose the right tense with confidence.

The webinar takes place on Sunday, the 1st of February, 8pm and you can sign up at teacherola.com forward slash polacy.

Don't forget to head to teacherola.com forward slash three, two, five and grab your free worksheet.

It'll help you revise the key phrases from this episode and if you want to practice speaking regularly, new groups are forming inside my voicemail program.

You can check all the details and sign up at teacherola.com forward slash grupy.

Thank you so much for listening.

I'm your teacher, Teacher Ola and you've been listening to Teacher Ola podcast.