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[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Just one sentence this time! Does this sound natural:

Я часто выучиваю песни наизусть.

I'm talking about when learning laguages, learning songs by heart, listening to them a hundred times until you realise that you are singing to your self without noticing (I believe they have then been memorized in a special place in the brain ;-)

Doesent Russian literature teachers tell the children to learn poems by heart? How would you say it in Russian if your teacher forced you to vyuchit' one poem every week?

Comments

[calibrono.livejournal.com]

that's ok, you may also use "заучиваю" instead of "выучиваю"

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Dzyakuy! Thanks! I was afraid it sounded akward.

[calibrono.livejournal.com]

also, i'd prefer using verb "запоминать" instead of "учить"
like "я часто запоминаю песни наизусть"

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

hm... but I mean it as a method to learn laguages. Somebody askes me for advice how to learn Swedish, and I said that I learnt russian by sitting down with pop-albums, and a dictionary, and really worked with it. Can zapominat' be a process of learning in that way?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Запоминать is "to store in memory" rather than "to learn by heart" which, in turn, is rather "выучивать/заучивать".

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

merci!

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

De rien :)

[return-true.livejournal.com]

я часто учу - i'd prefere this variant

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

But is it clear then that I get a result everytime? That Ja vyuchila odny pesnyu, potom druguyu i zavtra ewe kakuyu-to pesnyu vyuchu.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

no, not really, I want to stress the result, that it is good to know a lot of songs by heart.

[anafignikvapshe.livejournal.com]

As for me учу наизусть is more natural than выучиваю, but it' ok too.

[zveriozha.livejournal.com]

Sounds absolutely natural.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

merci! So if some russians find it natural, and it feels natural to me personaly, I guess i shuold express my self like that.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Why, it is natural. It's just that many things in Russian can be said in more than just one correct way :)

[divine-1987.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer to say учу наизусть.