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Re:Help! anyone can to translate this song for me? (finnish/spanish)
El tiene sangre frio
Este dolor
En el centro de los cuerpos (cadaver)
Mira que el cielo se muere
Esa vida
Debajo de la lluvia con las lagrimas

En la paz
En los sueños

Bajo la tierra (=maa)
desnuda y desierto (=paljas ja hylätty)

Apenas mucho tiempo
Detenido del carne
Vacio se encontra de su felicidad
Mira a los ojos
Ave del muerte
Como atrancado/cerrado.
En el medio de las sombras.

PS. No se, si hay muchos errores, pero estoy tambien estudiando aqui..

Language pair: Spanish; Finnish

Bambo L.
May 15, 2006

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Re:Re:Finnish verbs
Moi!
I think she's just being lazy in her pronounciation, because you should ALWAYS pronounce "ä" like "ä" and "a" like "a". Because Finnish can be spoken without opening your mouth and moving your lips very much (which surely won't do in languages like French!!), "ä" might sound a bit like "a". Some Finns even say tiä when they should say tie, or Suami when they sould say Suomi. I myself find this extremely irritating ;).
Sorry, I'm not a gold member, so I can't write you email :(. But if you have further questions, I'll try to answer them here.

Hyvää pääsiäistä! Have a nice Easter!

Hanna

Language pair: Finnish; English

Hanna H.
April 14, 2006

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Latest: April 14, 2006

Re:Re:Finnish verbs
Moi!
I think she's just being lazy in her pronounciation, because you should pronounce "ä" in hyvä like "ä", not like "a". Because Finnish can be spoken without opening your mouth and moving your lips very much (which surely won't do in languages like French!!), "ä" might sound like "a". Some Finns even say tiä when they should say tie, or Suami when they sould say Suomi. I myslef find this extremely disturbing ;).

Language pair: Finnish; All

Hanna H.
April 14, 2006

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Latest: April 14, 2006

Re:Finnish verbs
Both letters "a" and "ä" are pronounced in different ways, always. The "ä" resembles the pronunciation of 'a' in the English words 'cat' /kæt/ and 'hat' /hæt/. The "a" is pronounced like 'a' in 'mark' /mark/ or 'art' /art/. Always.

There is no system similar to the umlaut system in German. "A" can't change to "ä". They are different letters. In Finnish every letter is pronounced in one way, only. Letters a and ä can't even appear in the same word (except in compound nouns).

Language pair: Finnish; All

Antti-Mikael T.
April 11, 2006

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Latest: April 14, 2006

Re:Finnish verbs
Hei!
I couldn't figure out a word in which "ä" would be pronounced like "a"... could you give an example? If I know something (and I'm a native speaker) "ä" is never pronounced like "a".

terveisin Hanna

Language pair: Finnish; English

Hanna H.
April 11, 2006

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Latest: April 14, 2006

Re:Re:Re:finnish clases
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