வீதி முடிய மட்டும்

In short

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  வீதி முடிய மட்டும்

  vīdi muḍiya maṭṭum

  to the end of the street

Why it looks that way

mattum here is not 'only' but 'as far as': 'up to this very day'. The setting chooses the meaning

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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  வீதி முடிய மட்டும் நேரா போங்க

  vīdi muḍiya maṭṭum nērā pōṅga

  Go straight to the end of the street

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

• இது இங்கிருந்து தூரமா? — is it far from here?read “idu iṅgirundu tūramā?”
• வரைபடத்தில காட்டுங்க — show it on the mapread “varaipaḍattila kāṭṭuṅga”
• நடந்து பத்து நிமிஷம் — about ten minutes on footread “naḍandu pattu nimiṣam”
• பயிற்சி வகுப்பு — coursesread “payiṟci vaguppu”
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