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I'm telling you this because I know cases like this.
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She actually sings pretty all right, much better than me. I am hoping that your view is overly pessimistic...
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It looks like some sort of dyslexia, or let me use the word "dyslexia" in a wrong way just to describe one of many ways people have problems to put all the orchestra together in unison. I have my own set of problems about hearing, identifying and remembering, but not just the one you describe, and I have a musical ear pretty much above the average person.
I suggest you to try one approach I used many years ago with a student extremely intelligent but almost impaired to remember mathematical equations. He could analyze, explain and use every equation he had in front of him, but when the visual aid was absent he became numbed. I tried all the rational and irrational aids in my trick bag to no avail. One day, I got sick of the situation and got a couple of sandpapers and explained a bunch of equations to him, carefully but asking him to "write" each equation with a finger on the sandpaper. With the other hand he would "plot" how the values would evolved having we changed every variable in the equations once at a time. I couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe it. He remembered everything -or it looked that way compared to the previous situation-. But sandpaper is not needed here. You just have to use one sane sense as a sort of crutch to the weak one, so to speak. In the case we are dealing with it may be ruled unsuccessful to reinforce hearing with sound, that is, MARking LOUDly where the stress is. It's better to wave hands and arms like a conductor or to drum fingers on the table: a loud knock with the thumb for the stressed syllable, a gentle wipe with the rest of the fingers for the unstressed ones. The brain is an extraordinary machinery and strange connections produce these problems but also art and genius.
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That's interesting, thanks. She seemed to make some progress when she, without being prompted by me, moved her head to the left when she stressed the "left" (first) syllable and to the right when she stressed the "right" (last) syllable. This still wasn't consistent but seemed better than without it.
We already tried the visual approach, capitalizing the stressed syllable, but that didn't work. |
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Written accents are the key for knowing how to stress words in Spanish.
According to the syllable where they're stressed, Spanish has three kinds of words: agudas, graves/llanas, esdrújulas. Palabras agudas: words that are stressed at the last syllable. Palabras graves: words that are stressed at the second syllable, counting from the last one. Palabras esdrújulas: words that are stressed at the third syllable, counting from the end of the word. Here are the simple rules to write accents in Spanish: The palabras agudas must have a written accent when they end with n, s, or a -> presión, cor·tés, amé... Palabras agudas without a written accent end with any consonant, except n or s. -> cortar, abril, ciudad... One must write an accent on palabras graves which end with any consonant, except n or s. -> cóndor, fútbol, álbum... Palabras graves without a written accent end with n, s, or a -> abren, canto, sueño... Palabras esdrújulas always bear a written accent. -> brújula, atmósfera, pánico... Here are some other threads where this has been discussed. http://forums.tomisimo.org/showthread.php?t=1450 http://forums.tomisimo.org/showthread.php?t=5939 http://forums.tomisimo.org/showthread.php?t=9721
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The problem isn't, at least yet, with the rules but rather with understanding what word stress is and how to identify and produce it consistently.
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Ok. No problem. As I said, I know cases, that's why I suggested that. Evidently I was wrong
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the word is stressed may change it's meaning. Once that inherant understanding is materialized on paper, the transfer to Spanish should be a piece of cake.
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That sounds like a good idea. You could also start with stress within a sentence in English, to make her aware that it does exist, and is important. The difference, for example, between
What is this thing called love? and What is this thing called, love? |
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Thank you Mr. Porter.
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