நான் சரியா புரிஞ்சுக்கொண்டனா?

In short

Why it looks that way

Here understanding does have a doer: the -kkoll ending, 'take to oneself', turns the impersonal understanding into an action

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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  நாளைக்கு பத்து மணிக்கு — நான் சரியா புரிஞ்சுக்கொண்டனா?

  nāḷaikku pattu maṇikku — nāṉ sariyā puriñcukkoṇḍaṉā?

  Tomorrow at ten — have I understood correctly?

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

• நீங்கள் சொல்ல வாறது (nīṅgaḷ solla vāṟadu) — do you meanread “nīṅgaḷ solla vāṟadu”
• எழுத்துக் கூட்டி சொல்லுங்கோ (eḻuttuk kūṭṭi solluṅgō) — spell it out, pleaseread “eḻuttuk kūṭṭi solluṅgō”
• ஒண்டு கேக்கலாமா? (oṇḍu kēkkalāmā) — may I ask you something?read “oṇḍu kēkkalāmā?”
• ஒரு நிமிஷம் இருக்கா? (oru nimiṣam irukkā) — do you have a minute?read “oru nimiṣam irukkā?”
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