как это пишется?
“как это пишется?” (kak eto pishetsya?) — how is it spelled? in Russian. Phrase, level A2. S odnoy en ili s dvumya? — "how is it spelled, with one n or two?" — the question about the letters; the school formula lives in the copybooks: written so and read so. In a live sentence: “Как это пишется — с одной «н» или с двумя?” — How is it spelled, with one n or two? A word from the everyday Russian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Russian | как это пишется? |
| Read in Latin letters | kak eto pishetsya? |
| Translation | how is it spelled? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
S odnoy en ili s dvumya? — "how is it spelled, with one n or two?" — the question about the letters; the school formula lives in the copybooks: written so and read so.
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.
- Как это пишется — с одной «н» или с двумя?Kak eto pishetsya — s odnoy «n» ili s dvumya?How is it spelled, with one n or two?
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 “how is it spelled?” in Russian?
«как это пишется?», read “kak eto pishetsya?” In a live sentence: “Как это пишется — с одной «н» или с двумя?” — How is it spelled, with one n or two? Phrase, level A2; written with the characters к, а, к, э, т, о, п, и, ш, е, т, с…
How is “как это пишется?” written in Latin letters?
kak eto pishetsya? 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?
S odnoy en ili s dvumya? — "how is it spelled, with one n or two?" — the question about the letters; the school formula lives in the copybooks: written so and read so. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.