Study Russian

My english collegues often don't understand why russians are so obsessed with language fluency of translation. Their point is if the line is grammaticly correct why don't you like it. The problem is very language-specific. Russian language is full of sinonims, antonims, omonims and many things can only be defined by context and intonation. While we read text we also consider "intonation" of narrator. If we meet the line Книги читают in text we suppose it means that (People) read books . But grammaticly exactly the same line means Books read. Put exactly the same line in different context and it's meaning changes to opposite. Now let's turn to intonation : From grammatical point of view it is correct to say: Вы можете сделать это. Вы можете это сделать. Это можете сделать вы. Сделать это вы можете. Вы сделать это можете. We only change the order of word, all lines are correct but the meaning is different. Вы можете сделать это. You can Do it (accent on actio...