சைக்கிள் வாடகை

In short

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  சைக்கிள் வாடகை

  saikkiḷ vāḍagai

  bicycle rental

Why it looks that way

The second word is at once the hiring and the payment for it. The sign by the sea reads exactly 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.

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  கடற்கரையில சைக்கிள் வாடகை இருக்கு

  kaḍaṟkaraiyila saikkiḷ vāḍagai irukku

  By the shore there is a bicycle rental

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

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• உரையாடல் புத்தகம் — phrasebookread “uraiyāḍal puttagam”
• பெற்றோல் தாங்கி — fuel tankread “peṟṟōl tāṅgi”
• என்ஜின் ஒயில் — engine oilread “eṉjiṉ oyil”
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