Менің ойымша
- Менің ойымшаMeniñ oiymshain my view
“Менің ойымша” (Meniñ oiymsha) — in my view in Kazakh. Phrase, level B1. Short i, nasal ng, short y: me-NING o-yym-SHA. In a live sentence: “Менің ойымша, тағы бір апта керек” (Meniñ oiymsha, tağy bir apta kerek) — In my view, one more week is needed. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters М, е, н, і, ң, о, й, ы, м, ш, а. A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Менің ойымша (Meniñ oiymsha) |
| Read in Latin letters | Meniñ oiymsha |
| Translation | in my view |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
short i, nasal ng, short y: me-NING o-yym-SHA
Why it looks that way
the fuller, more bookish form of the same: my thought plus -she; reports and letters use this one, talk uses the short in-my-opinion; the fully official one is in our opinion
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 “in my view” in Kazakh?
«Менің ойымша» (Meniñ oiymsha), read “Meniñ oiymsha”. Short i, nasal ng, short y: me-NING o-yym-SHA. In a live sentence: “Менің ойымша, тағы бір апта керек” (Meniñ oiymsha, tağy bir apta kerek) — In my view, one more week is needed. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters М, е, н, і, ң, о, й, ы, м, ш, а.
How is “Менің ойымша” (Meniñ oiymsha) written in Latin letters?
Meniñ oiymsha. 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?
The fuller, more bookish form of the same: my thought plus -she; reports and letters use this one, talk uses the short in-my-opinion; the fully official one is in our opinion. 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 this 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.