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Cheburashka's song Once I tried to tranlate Cheburashka's song for little children. Does it sound well? Is it possible to shift word stresses in poems in English? Like here in "phenomEnal". I used to be a strange toy And neither girl nor boy wanted to play with me When they saw me My name is Cheburashka And every dog and cat now Says hello to me Every time we meet I had a bad luck firstly When even on my birthday Nobody was there And I was by myself Now we're friends with Gena He is just phenomenal This crocodile is yet The best I've ever met.

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Cheburashka's song

Once I tried to tranlate Cheburashka's song for little children. Does it sound well? Is it possible to shift word stresses in poems in English? Like here in "phenomEnal".
I used to be a strange toy
And neither girl nor boy
wanted to play with me
When they saw me

My name is Cheburashka
And every dog and cat now
Says hello to me
Every time we meet

I had  bad luck at first
When even on my birthday
Nobody was there
And I was by myself

Now we're friends with Gena
He is just phenomenal
This crocodile is yet
The best I've ever met.


This poem seems to work well in English, I just modified one line to make it feel more natural. Well done!

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Cheburashka's song

Once I tried to tranlate Cheburashka's song for little children. Does it sound well? Is it possible to shift word stresses in poems in English? Like here in "phenomEnal".
I used to be a strange toy
And neither girl nor boy
wanted to play with me
When they saw me

My name is Cheburashka
And every dog and cat now
Says hello to me
Every time we meet

I had a bad luck firstly
When even on my birthday
Nobody was there
And I was by myself

Now we're friends with Gena
He is just phenomenal
This crocodile is yet
The best I've ever met.

I think you can say phenomEnal in a poem or song but, just to make it sound a bit better maybe you can say it ambiguously (like "phEnomEnal")

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A massive thank you😊. You really helped a lot.
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"I had bad luck, sad to say, When even on my birthday ... " Oh, and really you'd be better with "Does it sound good?" Did you link to the song somewhere - does your English fit the line lengths of the melody ...? Ah, OK https://youtu.be/v_nPEGijDoQ
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Thank you, Michael.

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