Lingoflyрозповісти про себе
- розповісти про себеrozpovisty pro sebeto tell about yourself
“розповісти про себе” (rozpovisty pro sebe) — to tell about yourself in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. The first request at any interview: "roz kazit pro sebe". Note the preposition "pro" — it does the job you might expect a different one to do. In a live sentence: “Попросили коротко розповісти про себе” (Poprosyly korotko rozpovisty pro sebe) — Tell me about yourself, please.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | розповісти про себе (rozpovisty pro sebe) |
| Read in Latin letters | rozpovisty pro sebe |
| Translation | to tell about yourself |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The first request at any interview: "roz kazit pro sebe". Note the preposition "pro" — it does the job you might expect a different one to do.
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.
- Попросили коротко розповісти про себеPoprosyly korotko rozpovisty pro sebeTell me about yourself, please
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 timesKim & 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 timesAdesope, 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 timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to tell about yourself” in Ukrainian?
«розповісти про себе» (rozpovisty pro sebe), read “rozpovisty pro sebe”. In a live sentence: “Попросили коротко розповісти про себе” (Poprosyly korotko rozpovisty pro sebe) — Tell me about yourself, please. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters р, о (o), з (z), п, о (o), в (v), і (i), с, т, и, п, р…
How is “розповісти про себе” (rozpovisty pro sebe) written in Latin letters?
rozpovisty pro sebe. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The first request at any interview: "roz kazit pro sebe". Note the preposition "pro" — it does the job you might expect a different one to do. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.