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- dars oraligʻirecess
“dars oraligʻi” — recess in Uzbek. Noun, level A1. A rasped gʻ in oraligʻi. In a live sentence: “Dars oraligʻida bolalar hovlida oʻynaydi.” — At recess the children play in the yard. A word from the everyday Uzbek course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | dars oraligʻi |
| Translation | recess |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
How to pronounce it
a rasped gʻ in oraligʻi
Why it looks that way
"Tanaffus" is already taken by the school recess, so here they say it otherwise: "the interval between lessons". On it the children run into the yard.
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.
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 “recess” in Uzbek?
«dars oraligʻi». A rasped gʻ in oraligʻi. In a live sentence: “Dars oraligʻida bolalar hovlida oʻynaydi.” — At recess the children play in the yard. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
"Tanaffus" is already taken by the school recess, so here they say it otherwise: "the interval between lessons". On it the children run into the yard. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.