Swedish at speed

In a typical classroom lesson you deal with a single grammar point, and focus on a perhaps 25 words that the teacher imagines are new. You might spend an hour. You'd then forget most of it. That's life in the classroom.

Whereas I do things differently.

In a single minute, I cover 170 words. It's not just vocab, as the words are connected. They make up a grammatical felt. They convey meaning and message. The particular piece of text (Jack Reacher) I'm concerned with has 100 unique words, with the rest repeated 2, 3 or more times. My brains gets to choose what's important, and what to focus upon.

I don't consciously try to commit anything to memory. Instead, across a wide swathe of language, I improve my understanding of multiple language items by a few percentage points each. And that adds up to much more than a structured classroom lesson.