Everyday Objects
To help you remember the new vocabulary from this lesson, we have also prepared a section with some useful mnemonics.
What is a mnemonic? The Oxford English Dictionary defines it thus:
mne-mon-ic /nɪ'mɒnɪk; AmE-'mɑ:n-/ noun a word, sentence,
poem, etc. that helps you to remember something
An example of a mnemonic is the following short sentence which can be used to
remember the order of the seven planets:
My
Mercury
Very
Venus
Educated
Earth
Mother
Mars
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ཏག་ཏི་ (takti)(white/black) boardI knocked on the board tac-tac-tac, and then I heard a horn tee-tee-tee. |
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? (kushu)appleI cook apples, so you should eat them, man. |
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? (jola)bagWhen I go to school with my bag I say Julley to everyone |
? (kitap)bookKey—Tap to unlock. |
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? (takchpo)braceletTake the Chinese bracelet and put it on. |
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ཀུར་རྩི་ (kurtsi)chairWhere is my kurkure? Tashi is sitting on the chair, crunching your favourite spicy snack! |
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? (kamisi gongrtsa)collarThe gorilla playing on a gong in a kamis is getting on my nerves (nerve is 'rtsa' in Ladakhi). |
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? (mik)eyeI see a mic with my mik. (Microphone is an eye for sounds). |
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ལག་པ་ (lakpa)hand, forearm"Hands up! I won't leave without a lakh1!" the thief shouted at pa.1Lakh is 100 000 (here: Rupees). |
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? (tipi)hatTea + Pea = Hat |
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ཁ་ལེབ་ (khaleb)lid, coverThe khaki laptop has a khaki lid. |
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ཡག་པ་ (yakpa)seed, nutThe yak is eating a pile of nuts. |
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སོ་ (so)toothThe saw has many teeth. Moreover, it cuts wood just as a tooth cuts food. |