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- Իր մասին պատմելir masin badmelto tell about yourself
“Իր մասին պատմել” (ir masin badmel) — to tell about yourself in Western Armenian. Phrase, level A2. Մասին (masin) is 'about', as in այդ (ayt) մասին (masin), about that. At the interview it comes as the request Պատմեցէք Ձեր (tser) մասին (masin) — tell us about yourself. In a live sentence: “Կը խնդրեմ ձեր մասին պատմել” (gə khntrem tser masin badmel) — Please tell us about yourself.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Իր մասին պատմել (ir masin badmel) |
| Read in Latin letters | ir masin badmel |
| Translation | to tell about yourself |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
մասին (masin) is 'about', as in այդ (ayt) մասին (masin), about that. At the interview it comes as the request Պատմեցէք Ձեր (tser) մասին (masin) — tell us about yourself
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.
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 “to tell about yourself” in Western Armenian?
«Իր մասին պատմել» (ir masin badmel), read “ir masin badmel”. In a live sentence: “Կը խնդրեմ ձեր մասին պատմել” (gə khntrem tser masin badmel) — Please tell us about yourself. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters Ի, ր, մ, ա, ս, ի, ն, պ, ա, տ, մ, ե…
How is “Իր մասին պատմել” (ir masin badmel) written in Latin letters?
ir masin badmel. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Մասին (masin) is 'about', as in այդ (ayt) մասին (masin), about that. At the interview it comes as the request Պատմեցէք Ձեր (tser) մասին (masin) — tell us about yourself. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.