Қоршаған ортаны қорғау
“Қоршаған ортаны қорғау” — environmental protection in Kazakh. Phrase, level B1. throaty q three times, voiced throaty g: qor-sha-GHAN or-ta-NY qor-GHAU. In a live sentence: “Қоршаған ортаны қорғау бәріне ортақ іс” — Environmental protection is everybody business. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Қоршаған ортаны қорғау |
| Translation | environmental protection |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- Қоршаған ортаны қорғауenvironmental protection
How to pronounce it
throaty q three times, voiced throaty g: qor-sha-GHAN or-ta-NY qor-GHAU
Why it looks that way
literally the guarding of the surrounding environment; the short protect-nature phrase the course already keeps, so the official turn is taken here
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.
- Қоршаған ортаны қорғау бәріне ортақ ісEnvironmental protection is everybody business
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 “environmental protection” in Kazakh?
«Қоршаған ортаны қорғау». throaty q three times, voiced throaty g: qor-sha-GHAN or-ta-NY qor-GHAU. In a live sentence: “Қоршаған ортаны қорғау бәріне ортақ іс” — Environmental protection is everybody business. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
literally the guarding of the surrounding environment; the short protect-nature phrase the course already keeps, so the official turn is taken here. 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.