taniec ludowy
“taniec ludowy” — folk dance in Polish. Noun, level A2. The same dance you know from the verb, plus the folk. At village feasts it is livelier than on stage. In a live sentence: “To taniec ludowy z gór” — It is a folk dance from the mountains. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Polish | taniec ludowy |
| Translation | folk dance |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The same dance you know from the verb, plus the folk. At village feasts it is livelier than on stage.
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.
- To taniec ludowy z górIt is a folk dance from the mountains
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 “folk dance” in Polish?
«taniec ludowy». In a live sentence: “To taniec ludowy z gór” — It is a folk dance from the mountains. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The same dance you know from the verb, plus the folk. At village feasts it is livelier than on stage. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.