Իմ կարծիքով

In short

• ▶
  Իմ կարծիքով

  im kartsik'ov

  in my opinion

Why it looks that way

K'artsik', an opinion, plus -ov, the instrumental: 'by my opinion'; it opens the sentence and a comma follows: Im k'artsikov sa skhal e; drop the im and you get someone else's opinion: nra k'artsikov

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.

• ▶
  Իմ կարծիքով, սա լավագույն տարբերակն է

  im kartsik'ov, sa lavaguyn tarberakn e

  In my opinion this is the best option

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.

Next

• Իմ տեսանկյունից — in my viewread “im tesankyunits”
• Ես կարծում եմ — I thinkread “yes kartsum em”
• Իսկ դու ի՞նչ ես մտածում — what do you thinkread “isk du inch es mtatsum?”
• Մասամբ համաձայն եմ — I partly agreeread “masamb hamadzayn em”
• All Armenian wordsIndex by topic