delovne izkušnje
“delovne izkušnje” — work experience in Slovenian. Noun, level A2. š = sh, nj = ny: DEH-lovneh ees-KOOSH-nyeh. In a live sentence: “Imam pet let delovnih izkušenj” — I have five years of work experience. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Slovenian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | delovne izkušnje |
| Translation | work experience |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- delovne izkušnjework experience
How to pronounce it
š = sh, nj = ny: DEH-lovneh ees-KOOSH-nyeh
Why it looks that way
an izkušnja is an experience you lived through, in the plural it is work experience; general know-how is izkušnje too; a poskus is an experiment — keep them apart
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.
- Imam pet let delovnih izkušenjI have five years of work experience
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 “work experience” in Slovenian?
«delovne izkušnje». š = sh, nj = ny: DEH-lovneh ees-KOOSH-nyeh. In a live sentence: “Imam pet let delovnih izkušenj” — I have five years of work experience. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
an izkušnja is an experience you lived through, in the plural it is work experience; general know-how is izkušnje too; a poskus is an experiment — keep them apart. 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 it 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.