"I like jumping."
Translation:Я люблю прыгать.
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I am having the hardest time figuring out how to pronounce the letter ы. Is it extremely contextual ir just the tts being inconsistent?
I find it's easiest and most consistent to try saying "we" using only the back of your throat, keeping lips open
When ‹ы› is stressed it's something like [ɨ], which would be like [i] ‹и› but a bit further back. Since in Russian this vowel sound occurs only after hard consonants—those that are not palatalized—it seems it is often causes <i>velarization</i> on the consonant.
Generally for us English speakers, just using [ɪ] and making sure the consonant is clearly hard might get the point across best.
But if you want to be a perfectionist, you can also try taking the [u] vowel and unrounding your lips, like you might do for Turkish ‹ı› or Vietnamese ‹ư›, if you happen to be familiar with those.
I understood from other lessons that verbs in 1st and some in 2nd person don't require a noun, for example "Думаю что ты дурак", but on the other hand the answer here appearently requires the noun Я to to get it right. So is this true or not?
Verbs generally do require a pronoun even in 1st person and 2nd person singular, unless you are going for a distinctly colloquial feel (even then, some places will almost always have a pronoun: for example, "Считаю, что ты дурак" is not technically wrong but very uncommon).
Usage of "Думаю" and, sometimes, usage of "Хочешь? ("будешь?") in questions are rather an exception. You may copy what you see in our course but it would be unwise to extend it to every single verb :)
Yes. I had to translate: "I like jumping" . The answer was that I am not correct.
I don't get it when I should use Я or мне. What's the difference and when would I use one another?
My same question exactly. I was taught that "любить " was for love and "мне нравится " meant I like, so why does Duolingo consider it incorrect?
Just wondering if "люблю" automatically means to "like" if we are talking about things, then what should we use to describe love for things or something other than a person, like " I love this view " ??