ช่อง ว่าง

In short

Why it looks that way

Literally "empty opening": the gap between city and village, poor and rich. The same emptiness as in free time

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.

• ช่อง ว่าง ของ คน รวย กับ คน จน ใหญ่ ขึ้น

  чонг ваанг кхонг кхон руай кап кхон джон йай кхын

  The gap between rich and poor is growing

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.

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• การ ตาม ไม่ ทัน — lag; backlogread “кан таам май тан”
• น้อย กว่า หลาย เท่า — several times lessread “ной кваа лаай тао”
• ต่ำ กว่า — lower thanread “там кваа”
• ด้อย กว่า — to be inferior; to fall shortread “дой кваа”
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