Hi, I'm Sonia and I have a question for you. If you are someone who forgets things easily,
do I need to remember you, remind you or memorize you? Confused? Well, don't be because today
we are going to do a lesson on the difference between these three easily confused words
and they are, remember, remind and memorize. Very simple, very easy to understand, just
keep your focus and I'm sure, you'll get this right.
Let's look at the very first word here, which is, remember. So, when you think of the word
remember, what does it mean? You use the word, remember, when you yourself try to think of
a past experience or some kind of a memory, okay. So you yourself try to think of a past
experience or a memory. Let's look at the first sentence, do you remember her name?
Alright, so here, another person may be is asking me, hey Sonia, do you remember her
name? That person is asking me, if I, myself can think. You know go into my memory and
think of that person's name. So do you remember her name? Okay. So remember is used when you
think of a past experience or a memory yourself, very important, okay.
The next one here, I remember this place, I have been here before. Do you sometimes
make these kinds of sentences? Well, I do. You know whenever you go to a familiar restaurant
or to a familiar place and you're going there after a very long time, you tend to tell your
friends or whoever is along with you, you know what I remember this place, I've been
here before and I really loved the food. So here, you are thinking of a past experience
or a memory and that's why, you use the word, remember and not anything else.
The next one here, I can't remember the name of this track., oh no. well, yes it does happen
sometimes that you're listening to a great track and you really like it a lot and you
have heard it before, possibly many number of times. Sometimes at that moment, you just
can't remember it. You can’t go back into your memory and think or try and remember
the name of that particular track and what is a track by the way? A track is nothing
but a song, okay. So, remember is always, always used when you yourself are trying to
think of a past experience or a past memory. Okay, remember, remember that.
Next one here is, remind. Okay, now it's quite similar to remember but the only difference
here is that you will use remind when someone else or something else, something external
influences your memory. Something else or someone else causes you to think of a past
experience or a memory. Okay, it's not you, yourself; it's something else or someone else.
Let's look at the sentences and maybe we'll get this much better. The first one, and this
is something that my mother uses very often, Okay, she keeps telling me, Sonia, please
remind me to pay the bill. Okay, so any bill, any utility bill, you know she always tells
me this, please remind me to pay the bill because she forgets very often. So I'm like
the person who keeps reminding her of all these things. So here if you notice, my mom,
in this case, is telling me to remind her of something because she can't think of it
herself. So, I'm the person who will influence her memory. So, she says please remind me
to pay the bill. Okay, so remind is used when something else, something or someone else
makes you remember or makes you think of something, alright. Next one here, this boy reminds me
of my childhood. So sometimes, you know we, look at children or maybe a younger person
and we feel that I was just like this when I was a kid, right? It happens sometimes.
That's when you would say, this boy reminds me or this girl reminds me of my childhood.
I was just like here, very naughty when I was a kid. But why, why am I using reminds?
Because it's someone else, it's an external force, something else that's reminding me.
I can't say, this boy remembers me of my childhood that will sound absolutely wrong. It's just
wrong, okay, don't do it. This boy or this girl reminds me of something. And then we
have, do I need to remind you to take your pills? Do you use these kinds of sentences?
Sometimes, we need to. There a lot of people who tend to forget to take their pills or
their medicines and supposing it’s a family member or maybe your child, you know, you
may use this kind of a sentence. So, here, as well, if you notice, you're asking the
person, do I need to remind you? Okay because here, it's an external force, it's someone
else or something else that needs to remind that person to do something, in this case,
to take their pills or their medicines. So, remind is used only and only when something
else or someone else makes you think of a memory or makes you think of something, alright.
Finally, we have memorize. Now this is absolutely different from remember and remind. Okay the
word itself sounds very different. The spelling is entirely different, so don't get this confused
at all. What does memorize mean? Memorize, over here means that you are trying to put
something into your memory. Okay, you're trying to get something into your head, to memorize
something. Let's look at the first sentence; I want to memorize the lyrics of this song.
So say, if you're taking part in a competition or maybe you just want to impress and someone
and you wanna sing a song at a party, so you want to memorize which means, you wanna learn
or you want to put that information into your head, so later on, you can remember it. So
you have to, memorize which means, you’re putting information into your head, alright.
So it means to, put information into your memory. You memorize something, if you notice
something, also comes from the word, memory.
The next one here, I haven't memorized my annual day speech, oh no, that's something
very bad. I haven't memorized, okay, memorized is nothing but the past tense of memorize,
memorized, past tense. So I haven't already put the information into my head, I need to
do it fast. I haven't learned or I haven't put the details in. Finally, it's difficult
to memorize, so much information. So say you know if you're a student for example, and
you have an exam and you've not really been studying, hmm, so now you have just like 2
days before your examination and no you will obviously find it very difficult to memorize
everything. You know, anything will be difficult for you. So, here when we say memorize, this
also means the same thing, to basically, put some information into your memory, to learn
something, okay.
So here, we are different words, remember, remind and memorize. Let's do a quick recap.
Remember is when you yourself try to think of a past experience or a memory. Remind is
when something else, or someone else makes you think of something and memorize is when
you, try to put some information may be from a book or from the internet, you try to put
some details into your memory, okay.
So here we are at the end of this lesson, I now hope that you've understood very clearly,
what's the difference between these three words. Make sure that whenever you use them,
you use then very distinctively and you know exactly how to use them in sentences, alright.
Well, I hope that you've enjoyed watching this lesson; I definitely enjoyed giving you
all these examples. I'll be back soon with something new, till then you take good care
of yourselves, bye