זה שנוי במחלוקת

In short

Why it looks that way

Literally stands in a dispute: machloket — a dispute, a disagreement. The tone is rather negative: so they speak of decisions that draw objections

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.

• הסרט הזה שנוי במחלוקת.

  ха-сэрэт азэ шануи би-махлокэт.

  This film is debatable.

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 times
  Kim & 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 times
  Adesope, 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 times
  Bertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.

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• לתמוך — to supportread “литмох”
• פשרה — a compromiseread “пшара”
• ניסיון — experienceread “нисайон”
• מקרה — a caseread “микрэ”
• All Hebrew wordsIndex by topic
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