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Offline dima_76557

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Re: Is 17 too old to start learning the piano?
Reply #50 on: December 13, 2013, 10:36:46 AM
That will be good to remember next time I'll go to Russia :)

Here's a simple example with a sentence you might know:
Ya lyublyu tebya = I love you (intonation is essential to express sincerity). The right stress would be on the verb, but if you want to stress "you" as opposed to anyone else, you can stress "tebya".
Tebya ya lyublyu = It's you I love. Stress on "You".
Lyublyu ya tebya = Can't help loving you. or What can I do if I love you? Stress the verb.

P.S.: 14 cases in Finnish, right? Sounds like fun to learn. Foreigners have already so much trouble in Russian with 12 forms of one noun for six cases (singular and plural). ;D
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Re: Is 17 too old to start learning the piano?
Reply #51 on: December 13, 2013, 12:22:30 PM
Quote from: dima_76557link=topic=53558.msg578726#msg578726 date=1386931006
Here's a simple example with a sentence you might know:
Ya lyublyu tebya = I love you (intonation is essential to express sincerity). The right stress would be on the verb, but if you want to stress "you" as opposed to anyone else, you can stress "tebya".
Tebya ya lyublyu = It's you I love. Stress on "You".
Lyublyu ya tebya = Can't help loving you. or What can I do if I love you? Stress the verb.

I think your first example was more probable to come up in my case  ;D

Quote from: dima_76557link=topic=53558.msg578726#msg578726 date=1386931006
P.S.: 14 cases in Finnish, right? Sounds like fun to learn. Foreigners have already so much trouble in Russian with 12 forms of one noun for six cases (singular and plural). ;D

14 or 15 depending on definititions.

We natives learn even before school age to use them in the correct way, even though few of us adults remember their names (I've forgotten most myself). It's the immigrants that I feel really sorry for, it takes many of them years to understand the differences.

On the other hand we don't have to worry about the gender of words or the correct use of prepositions and such. Also spelling is very simple, you mostly just write what you hear :)

I do miss learning new languages because I loved the grammar part...I wonder why it's so difficult for me to feel the same way about musical "grammar". Maybe it's because music theory is more numeral and I have this little issue with dyscalculia.
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