afinada (cantora)
English translation: carry a tune; sing on key
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| 16:17 Apr 22, 2016 |
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|  Selected response from: Matheus Chaud Brazil Local time: 08:31 | ||||||
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13 mins confidence: 
She's a good singer who stays in tune Explanation: Staying in tune is the expression in EN, IMO. |
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19 mins confidence:
She has a very refined voice Explanation: I also agree with the other answers as to the meaning of ""afinada", though depending on you want to construct the phrase, this is another option. |
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4 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1She has got a good ear/perfect pitch Explanation: She has got a good ear/perfect pitch It might refer to two different skills : - recognition of sounds (pitch). Having perfect pitch means to recognize any note when it's played. Having relative pitch is recognizing intervals (for example you're able to say what's the construction of a chord that you hear but not in which key it's played). - memorization by listening : being able to reproduce music just by hearing it a few times-even once (which is not possible if you don't have at least relative pitch). These skills can be learned by anyone but apparently some persons are more gifted than the average. Obviously the earlier a child is ear-trained the better... |
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