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What we call learning curve is a graphical representation of someone’ learning rate in a defined subject. The curve usually has the shape of a ’s’.

The retention of information starts low, increases sharply after the initial attempts and will slow down when the persons gets less and less new information.

The learning curve is often used to illustrate how hard it is to learn something. There also cases, mainly for very wide subject where the learning curve looks like a staircase with many learning spikes. It if a good way to encourage people not to give up in learning something by showing them where they are in the learning curve and why it seems to go slower sometimes.