jeździć na łyżwach
“jeździć na łyżwach” — to skate in Polish. Phrase, level A1. The skate and the spoon differ by one letter. One skates on the familiar ice. In a live sentence: “Zimą jeździmy na łyżwach w parku” — In winter we skate in the park. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Polish | jeździć na łyżwach |
| Translation | to skate |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The skate and the spoon differ by one letter. One skates on the familiar ice.
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.
- Zimą jeździmy na łyżwach w parkuIn winter we skate in the park
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 skate” in Polish?
«jeździć na łyżwach». In a live sentence: “Zimą jeździmy na łyżwach w parku” — In winter we skate in the park. Phrase, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The skate and the spoon differ by one letter. One skates on the familiar ice. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.