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Because the course content is emotionally moving the language becomes part of a network of associations based on pleasant feelings, and so gains access to the long-term memory bank.

As new texts are presented, generally speaking, students have an "active concert" every second day.

Some suggestopedic teachers go directly from the active concert into the passive concert (described below), while others have a question-and-answer period, or give an explanation of the text, between the two concerts. This phase is often called the "Decoding Session".

A third possibility is the holding off of the passive concert until the end of the following day so that students have one "concert" every day, rather than two "concerts" on some days and none on others. The advantage of this formula is that all lessons end with "concerts", and there is a better balance between active and physically passive phases of the class.