மதிய இடைவேளை

In short

Why it looks that way

Iḍaivēḷai is the school break. On the island the office lunch break lasts an hour, from one to two, and the office empties for it

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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  மதிய இடைவேளை ஒரு மணித்தியாலம்

  madiya iḍaivēḷai oru maṇittiyālam

  The lunch break is one hour

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

• எனக்குப் பசிக்குது (eṉakkup pasikkudu) — I am hungryread “eṉakkup pasikkudu”
• எனக்குத் தாகமா இருக்கு (eṉakkut tāgamā irukku) — I am thirstyread “eṉakkut tāgamā irukku”
• வயிறு நிறைஞ்சிட்டுது (vayiṟu niṟaiñciṭṭudu) — I am fullread “vayiṟu niṟaiñciṭṭudu”
• சின்னத் துண்டு (ciṉṉat tuṇḍu) — small pieceread “ciṉṉat tuṇḍu”
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