අනුන්ගේ ආගමට ගරු කරනවා

In short

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  අනුන්ගේ ආගමට ගරු කරනවා

  anungē āgamaṭa garu karanavā

  to respect other beliefs

Why it looks that way

The familiar 'to respect' plus 'of others'. On an island with four religions this is not a slogan but a household rule

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.

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  අනුන්ගේ ආගමට ගරු කරන්න ඕන

  anungē āgamaṭa garu karanna ōna

  One must respect other beliefs

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 times
  Kim & 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 times
  Adesope, 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 times
  Bertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.

Next

• ජාතික නිවාඩු දිනය — national holidayread “jātika nivāḍu dinaya”
• අස්වනු උත්සවය — harvest festivalread “asvanu utsavaya”
• ජාතික ගීය — anthemread “jātika gīya”
• ගිනි මැලය — bonfireread “gini mælaya”
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