வேற ஒரு தரம் பாப்பம்

In short

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  வேற ஒரு தரம் பாப்பம்

  vēṟa oru taram pāppam

  maybe another time

Why it looks that way

paappam, 'we will see', is that very 'we shall see' with which one refuses without refusing. The polite 'no' sounds 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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  இண்டைக்கு ஏலாது, வேற ஒரு தரம் பாப்பம்

  iṇḍaikku ēlādu, vēṟa oru taram pāppam

  It will not work today, maybe another time

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

• நான் யோசிக்கிறேன் — I will think about itread “nāṉ yōsikkiṟēṉ”
• கேக்க எனக்கு வெக்கமா இருக்கு — I feel awkward askingread “kēkka eṉakku vekkamā irukku”
• மனசில வைக்காதேங்க — no hard feelingsread “maṉasila vaikkādēṅga”
• இடைமறிக்கிறேன் — interruptread “iḍaimaṟikkiṟēṉ”
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