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Expressions
To repress/suppress traumatic childhood memories
To honour the memory of the war dead
Collocations
treasured memories
To search your memory/mind for sth
Useful phrases
the memory will fade with the passing of time
hazy (=not remembering things clearly) memories
retentive (=remember things easily) memory - formal
to recite the whole poem from memory
Che Guevara died years ago but his memory lives on
This place holds lots of memories for us
We can't let bad memories eat away at us
to store up so many memories over the years
my thoughts/mind suddenly flashed back to
memory is very much subject to change
This monument will serve as a lasting memorial (= an object, often large and made of stone, that has been built to honour a famous person or event) to the courage of all the men who...
His name escapes me (= I have forgotten his name).
It's all right. It's ancient history. Let's just forget it happened.
Sentence structure
a chancy (=involving the possibility of something bad happening / risky) business
Across eight experiments in which participants were asked to read and remember lists of words, researchers found memory improvements sometimes in excess of (=more than) ten percent
All the evidence is that our memories aren't what they used to be
In days gone by, you might have known only thirty people in your entire lifetime
to build up familiarity (=a good knowledge of something, or the fact that you know it so well) with sth
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Nouns
My English has got a bit rusty
pick up (=to learn a language by practising it rather than being taught it) the language
total immersion in the language
to achieve an excellent command (=a great knowledge of a subject and an ability to use that knowledge) of English
At present some 85 percent of languages have yet to be documented
in a constant state of flux (=continuous change)
Further evidence of this linguistic phenomenon is found in all areas of life
Verbs
loanword (=a word taken from one language and used in another)
to discriminate between sounds/smells (=formal to be able to see the difference between two things or people)
attain a high level of achievement
language acquisition
She is rendering (formal) the book into English from French
...were presented with a moral dilemma
their actions are not consistent with their opinions
to give the game away
take note of sth
It is of particular relevance to language learning