Хабарласайық
“Хабарласайық” — let us keep in touch in Kazakh. Phrase, level B1. throaty q at the end: kha-bar-la-sai-YQ. In a live sentence: “Жарайды, кейін хабарласайық” — Fine, let us keep in touch later. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Хабарласайық |
| Translation | let us keep in touch |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- Хабарласайықlet us keep in touch
How to pronounce it
throaty q at the end: kha-bar-la-sai-YQ
Why it looks that way
khabarlasu is to connect, to give a sign of yourself: a call and a message alike; the -aiyq tail means let us
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.
- Жарайды, кейін хабарласайықFine, let us keep in touch later
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 “let us keep in touch” in Kazakh?
«Хабарласайық». throaty q at the end: kha-bar-la-sai-YQ. In a live sentence: “Жарайды, кейін хабарласайық” — Fine, let us keep in touch later. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
khabarlasu is to connect, to give a sign of yourself: a call and a message alike; the -aiyq tail means let us. 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 it 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.