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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2582. Did you remember it or memorize it? Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection. We'll
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Get all the subtle and not so subtle differences today. English is part of how you're evaluated, whether you like it or not, in meetings, in interviews, in negotiations. The question isn't whether your English is okay or good enough. It's whether it's working for you. Is it getting you the promotions and the salary raises that you deserve? If not, this is the year to do something about it.
Our free two-minute fluency quiz shows you your true English level, B1, B2, or C1, and where you can level up for real-world success for your career or your global life in English. Take the quiz now for free at allearsenglish.com slash fluency score. That's allearsenglish.com slash f-l-u-e-n-c-y-s-c-o-r-e. Hello there, Michelle. How's it going today? Good, Lindsay. How are you? Feeling good.
Feeling good. Michelle, are you good at remembering all of the birthdays in your family? It sounds like you have a pretty big family. Mm-hmm. My family isn't that big, but Dan's family is big, and so then when you add them all together, it is a big family. As far as birthdays go, I'm pretty good, but there is... a week in October where it's like everybody's birthday in the family. Okay. Okay.
So, so it's my dad's, his dad's, his sister's, his, our niece and nephew, everybody's. And so sometimes that gets a little confusing. And so that's, That can be hard to remember. What about you, Lindsay? Are you good at, you know, remembering birthdays? Yeah. Family, I'm usually good. Friends, you know, it's so frustrating because I decided to recommit to remembering friends' birthdays.
I wrote them all in this app that I decided to get a membership for for birthdays. And then the app offloaded and I lost all the birthdays. Oh, no. I know. Right. So now I just have to go back. It's better just have it in the old noggin, right? In the old noggin. Well, it's funny. Yeah.
Sometimes I always think, oh, it's better to just be able to remember things and, you know, not have always everything written down.
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Chapter 2: How do you differentiate between 'memorize' and 'remember' in English?
It's good for your mind. But then I do forget. Yeah, you do forget. I know. And I feel so bad when a friend remembers and I forget theirs. Oh, it's such a mind trip. Yeah. What are we talking about today, Michelle? So today we are going to talk about this really interesting topic that you brought up, which is very important. And I bet a lot of our listeners are a little confused about this.
And it's the difference between remember and memorize. Yeah, I was having a conversation with a student sometime in the last couple of weeks, and I heard this used incorrectly. And I thought, oh, this would make a great episode, Michelle, for our listeners today. Right? Yeah. Definitely. So this is a great idea. So I'm excited to talk about this.
And before we do get into it, we are just so excited to say thank you to our reviewers. Yes. I want to say a huge thank you to Pijan101 from Taiwan, who gave us a five-star review, by the way, on January 25th in Apple Podcasts. Huge thank you. They said, I really like your podcasts. They're so interesting that I keep listening every day. That's fantastic.
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Chapter 3: Why is it important to know your English level for career success?
We'll do our best to announce your name on the show. All right. Excellent. Perfect. Okay. So let's start with Memorize. Yes. Very different, right? Yeah, very different. Lindsay, what is Memorize? Tell us about it. Well, actually, they're not that different, but they are different, right? They're related, right? Oh, they're very related, of course. Memorize and remember.
So memorize is about learning something by heart. We always say this expression, learn it by heart. Why don't we say it, learn it by mind or learn it by, I don't know. We say learn it by heart. So we keep it in our mind with the aim of not forgetting it. This is pretty intentional.
I remember doing a lot of this in school, Michelle, memorizing dates, historical dates, events, that kind of thing, names. Does that ring any bells for you? Oh, yeah, of course. Well, and I used to, you know, when I did a lot of theater, I used to have to memorize my lines. Yes. Oh, of course. Oh, my gosh.
So it's really, it's about that process of learning and trying to keep something, get something to stick. Right. Yes. Yes. What about phone numbers, Lindsay? Do you have your partner's phone number memorized? I do. Thank goodness. Right. Because I feel like I remember the days when we didn't have cell phones. And I remember like dialing my best friend's phone number next door. Right.
And so it's still a concept to have a number, a phone number in my head. Right. And it's good to have it memorized. I remember it took Dan a very long time to memorize my phone number. And I'm like, come on. I know. I know. Come on. Right? I also try and have my son, he has our phone numbers memorized. So, it's good to have your kids know your phone numbers.
So, wait, I was just going to say about something about phone numbers. Oh, I forgot what it was, but it was fun. The whole idea about being an actor on stage, I've always wondered about this. I mean, how much time did it take you to memorize your lines for acting? I just don't even know how this works. And even in Hollywood, I don't get it. Yeah, it depended on how many lines I had.
But if I had a lot of lines, I mean, I... Yeah, it's hard. You kind of just chunk it up and have small goals. And I remember I had a process. Oh, you know what I would do? I would learn it and then I would write it down. OK, so that's a good trick. Yeah. So I would I would I felt that writing it down kind of solidified it in my mind. And yeah, so that that was helpful.
Oh, I know what I was going to ask you. Do you still have phone numbers of, you know, you mentioned your friends and like childhood phone numbers memorized? Kind of. I still can remember my childhood home phone number, like the landline. Yeah, me too. Yeah. I don't think I could get my best friend's number, but almost maybe. Yeah. I can get that. I know my mom's old work phone number.
I know my best friend's landline. So it's all up there somewhere. It's in there. It's in there. I mean, it makes me worry a little bit sometimes with Google Maps and everything. Are we just going to forget how to memorize or how to remember? We're going to forget how to remember. Yeah. Don't forget how to remember, Michelle. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What are some common mistakes made with 'remember' and 'memorize'?
Well, I'm just saying, like, it's a different process. So the idea of when does that memorization happen? It happens before the test. Right. Whereas on test day, you hope that you remember them. You don't hope you memorize them. You hope you already have memorized them. Right. It's the result of the memorization. Exactly. So it's like if you've memorized something, then you remember it. Exactly.
Exactly. And then I think not everything that is remembered is always memorized, right? Like I remember my grandmother's face, but I didn't memorize her face. Right. Right. She's gone now. Right. So that's where we were talking about, like more carbon copy, this idea of word for word. That's a systematic process, but it's not done for everything we remember. We have memories of our first memory.
We didn't memorize it. Right. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very good point. So let's show how remember looks. So here's one. I can't remember her name. Right. You wouldn't say I can't memorize her name. It's like I'm it's you're basically saying I didn't memorize it. And so, yeah, I can't remember it. Versus a good example here is one of my favorite movies.
I don't know why I find this movie really good with Ben Affleck, the movie Argo. Have you ever seen it? Yeah, it's a great movie, very dramatic, involving the CIA, etc. And okay, so when it comes to remembering names, they were given identities that they had to memorize. They had to memorize every detail of their fake identity, right? They were supposed to be Canadian.
And so the question is, when they got to the airport to leave Iran that day, did they remember it? Because they had memorized it. But you wouldn't memorize your friend's, your best, like you haven't memorized your best friend's name from childhood. You don't need to, right? So it's a process. It's just that I just know it. Exactly. Yes. Yeah, exactly. It's different. It is that process.
It's a little more technical. Yeah, I definitely agree. Yeah. You wouldn't memorize that. It's just, it's a memory. It's something that happened. You didn't have to, there was no process. There was nothing that you had to really try for. It's just that it naturally seeped into your mind as an experience. Perfect. So in a sense, we can remember both things we've memorized and our memories, right?
Hopefully we're making this more clear, not more confusing for our listeners. Here's another example. I'm trying to remember where I met him. Right. That's not something you would have memorized. That's just a life memory. Right. Right. Perfect.
So, yeah, essentially, if you memorize something, if you do go through that process, if it's that kind of a thing that you really have to try to remember, your goal is to remember. Right. You got it. Love it. Okay. All right, Michelle. So let's go over a couple of grammar points. What do we need to know about grammar? It's not enough just to know the differences between these two words.
We need to know what grammar goes with these two words. How to use them. Yeah. And there's more to all of this that we could follow up on, but we're going to teach the most important parts, the basics today. Yeah. So... With remember, right, one way you can use it is to say remember to and the verb. Yes. So, for example, remember to buy milk at the store.
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Chapter 5: How can memorization techniques enhance learning?
Like put this in your head. Yes, exactly. It's like a command. Please remember to buy milk. You ask your husband or something. Remember to pick up the bread and the milk at the store, whatever, right? This is not something we've memorized. But again, remember to do something. Remember to verb. Good. Or this is looking back. I remember watching that show every day after school.
This is memories, right? Right. So that would be verb and ing. So, I remember watching that show. I remember reading that book. I remember going on vacation with my friend, right? Yes. Yes, exactly. Love it. And then what about memorize, Michelle? Yeah. So, we're not, you wouldn't use memorize with the verb and ing, right? Right. You wouldn't say I memorize going to the store. Right. Right.
That doesn't sound right to me. Generally, memorize would just be followed by a noun. Right. So to memorize something or I mean, of course, if you're using in a different form to have something memorized. Right. So she memorized all the words to the monologue just in time for the audition. Exactly. You wouldn't memorize going to the store like the event of going.
You might memorize like unconsciously memorize the route to the store, maybe without even trying. Right. You just learn it. Right. Right. Right. Right, exactly. So I mean, like, if you say, okay, here, I mean, this is what I was just mentioning. So if I say I have something memorized, is that the same thing as remember? I don't think so. No, no. I think it comes back to the process. The process.
Exactly. That's what I was going to say. The more intentional process. I think that's another key. It's more intentional. Yeah. It's like I'm going to sit down. I'm going to have a test tomorrow in my senior history class. I have to memorize 10 different dates. Yes. Right. You're using index cards, whatever it is. So, you know, there's more of a process. So, all right. Should we do a role play?
Let's do it. So here we're roommates and we're leaving for a trip. We're locking up the house. Okay. Very specific context. Yes. Did you remember to turn off the sink upstairs? Yes, I think. I mean, I remember going upstairs and checking everything. I think it's okay. Okay. I'll check again. Thanks. Also, I memorized our hotel's address, so don't worry about that. Okay, great. Thanks. Thanks.
I'm this way too. I'm sort of a checker. I question myself as to whether I, you know, turned off the scene. Lindsay, we're the same. Yeah, Dan will always be like, like even just this weekend, we were going out for the weekend and it was before a snowstorm and I was nervous because, you know, you have to make.
certain preparations on your house he had to leave certain things open and whatever so he got the kids in the car and I said he's like okay just lock up and I said I don't like being the last person off the door and he's like I trust you and and I'm like, no. Yeah, that's even worse. That's even worse, right? When you get that comment because you're like, what if I mess this up? Yeah, it's true.
It's true. We second guess ourselves with these little practical things sometimes. But these are good examples here. So let's go through this role play, Michelle, and see what we said. So I asked you, did you remember to turn off the sink upstairs? It wouldn't make any sense for me to say, did you memorize? This has nothing to do with memorizing, right? Right.
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