l'horari de treball
“l'horari de treball” — work schedule in Catalan. Noun, level A2. L'horari — the timetable, here the working one. De nou a cinc — from nine to five: the office classic. In a live sentence: “L'horari de treball és de nou a cinc” — The work schedule is from nine to five. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Catalan course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Catalan | l'horari de treball |
| Translation | work schedule |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- l'horari de treballwork schedule
Why it looks that way
L'horari — the timetable, here the working one. De nou a cinc — from nine to five: the office classic
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- L'horari de treball és de nou a cincThe work schedule is from nine to five
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “work schedule” in Catalan?
«l'horari de treball». In a live sentence: “L'horari de treball és de nou a cinc” — The work schedule is from nine to five. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
L'horari — the timetable, here the working one. De nou a cinc — from nine to five: the office classic. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how this sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.