Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 443.
The title of today's lesson is the difference between
reminisce, recall and remember. Okay . Let's take a look at the note here.
If someone reminisces, he or she fondly remembers enjoyable experiences from the
past. Yeah. So actually reminisce is the easier
one to separate from the three here because
reminisce is only good memories. You don't reminisce about bad memories.
Recall and remember could be good or bad, but reminisce is
only good. All right. So let's continue. This could be
stimulated by looking at old photos, visiting old neighborhoods, reunions,
like you know, school reunions or family reunions
etc. Anything that brings back past or fond past memories, good past
memories. It could also be set off by old songs. Yeah.
Songs are often connected with things that happen
or remind us of old times that could you know set off
you reminiscing about something. Or things from one's childhood you know,
maybe some toy that you played with or something like that reminded you of your
childhood. The older you are, the more likely you
will reminisce. Yeah. If you're too young you probably don't reminisce about much
at all. If you're a teenager there's not that
much time to reminisce yet. Probably really you don't start
reminiscing a lot until you're probably around middle
age and then the older you get the more you reminisce from there because of
course you've got more time to reminisce about.
All right. Let's continue. Recall and remember
are quite similar. So very similar, and in many situations could be interchangeable.
So you could use one or the other in the same situation.
However, remember is the most common. In fact
when you reminisce or recall you remember as well.
So reminisce.... remember is the most general one.
Because if you're reminiscing or you're recalling you are remembering
at the same time. Recall suggests and is more often used when you
want to emphasize you are putting in more effort
to remember. You're trying harder to remember. One needs to search one's brain
to try to call back the memories. That , that's what we mean
really when we say that we're trying to recall like you, were calling the
memories. Memories come on up. Come on up to the
top of my head. So I can you know, just talk about them. I
think recall tends to be used more in the negative. Now
you could use in the positive. Somebody could say I recall but I think it's more
often common that you hear somebody say I just can't recall. Meaning like i'm
trying I'm trying. I just can't recall it. I
I tried to search my brain, but it just didn't come up.
Kind of like that. All right. So one is more likely to say I don't recall then,
then it is used in the positive sense. I also read that recall
is used more by lawyers in courts. Possibly to suggest that you must also
put in more effort to try to remember. Basically
if the thoughts are right on the top of your head,
you are more likely to just simply say you remember it. Because it's, it's
right there. You don't have to think hard about it. You're just ...
you're more likely to use remember in that situation.
Okay. Good. All right. And let's just cover ... we got six examples here that try
to help you know, cover these ideas. So here's the first
one. I went to my 20-year school reunion and I reminisced with my former
classmates about old times. Yeah. So you know , you
talked about like what you used to do in class. You remembered about you know,
what happened and probably things that you liked.
All right. Number two here. I love looking at all photos and reminiscing about my
childhood. Yeah. Maybe or number three here.
Do you recall what you witnessed on the night of the murder ? So this
sounds just like a law court or or maybe even the police trying to ask.
They're trying to tell you to put an effort to try to
remember this. All right. Number four. I tried to remember, but I just couldn't
recall. So again that's the way we use it. All right. Number five. I can easily
remember my ID number. On the US we might say your
social security number. Some sort of number that you, you
probably repeat a lot. So you you just remember it. You just
know it. All right. And number six here. Do you
remember what you ate for breakfast ? Yeah. The sooner , the
more recent it was , even more you might say
remember. And if it was a memory from a long time ago.
Then it might be more a little more likely that you might try to say recall.
Again because you feel like you have to search your brain more to get it.
Okay. Anyway, I hope it's clear. I hope you have a much better
understanding of when you're more likely to use one of these terms instead of
another. Anyway , thank you for your time. I hope it
was very informative. Bye-bye.