l'alarma del telèfon
“l'alarma del telèfon” — phone alarm in Catalan. Noun, level A1. Honestly "the alarm of the phone": l'alarma you knew as a car alarm. Set in the evening, rings at seven. In a live sentence: “L'alarma del telèfon sona a les set cada matí” — The phone alarm rings at seven every morning. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Catalan course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Catalan | l'alarma del telèfon |
| Translation | phone alarm |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
- l'alarma del telèfonphone alarm
Why it looks that way
Honestly "the alarm of the phone": l'alarma you knew as a car alarm. Set in the evening, rings at seven
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'alarma del telèfon sona a les set cada matíThe phone alarm rings at seven every morning
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 “phone alarm” in Catalan?
«l'alarma del telèfon». In a live sentence: “L'alarma del telèfon sona a les set cada matí” — The phone alarm rings at seven every morning. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Honestly "the alarm of the phone": l'alarma you knew as a car alarm. Set in the evening, rings at seven. 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.