"Le ragazze mangiano le torte."

Translation: The girls eat the cakes.

[coryad]

Ragazze at normal speed sounds like ragazzah

[Katiemullins1]

She definitely said "le ragazzA mangiano..."

[jill.parke]

She definitely does, I've compared them both.

[Annihil8or]

Possibly so, but you had two context clues in the sentence. 'Le' is female plural, and mangiano is 'they eat' so the sentence referred to more than one girl.

[xyphax]

I see your point - we can figure it out; however, here's why we ask for duoLingo to fix it: to 'hear' the incorrect word while looking at the correct word complicates learning the correct pronounciation.

[LA_danimo]

Yep yep, I reported it.

[joyaelkhoury]

Its right...

[Biochemistry]

How do you say "the boys" vs. "the girls?"

[TheGandalf]

"the boys" = "i ragazzi", "the girls" = "le ragazze"

[Biochemistry]

Ah, that clears it up for me! Thanks!

[haydee14p]

Not enough time is given to speak the sentence.

[xyphax]

I find that to be a pretty common occurrence. For stuff like that you can notify them directly instead of posting .. it will get duo's moderators' attentions faster (and we can't do much about it except agree with you :-)

[fleeny]

for a horrible second I thought the girls were eating the TURTLE !!

[bdickson123]

Same! Scared me for a minute.

[moudhof]

Doesn't le ragazze also be translated by the children

[Jenn_Henderson]

It depends on the gender. Le ragazze = all girls. I ragazzi = all boys or mixed gender group. If the gender is not known, use "i ragazzi" for "the children".

[bdickson123]

Like in Spanish. Interesting.

[josh2934]

That was my question.

[seth2di]

Effettivamente dice: le ragazzA mangiano... è sbagliato

[nheil.jugu]

I answered it correct, why did i get wrong, i lost a heart for correct answer

[yojharobed]

You know that's right.

[haydee14p]

The system does not allow enough time to speak a sentence.

[ColinSteem]

"The girls eat cake" was wrong, which I dispute, as "cake" can be plural in English.

[DrChristina]

yep she sure does

[LunaWatersong]

Can someone explain the different 'the' for everything?

[pilpilon]

yep.http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare110a.htm

[Maslahatjoo_95]

Why doesn't it accept my accent at all???? I tried more than 10 times and really what I say is just like what the voice says ...

[MilanPaty]

The girls eat the "PIES"...pies =cakes?? or not?? Cakes=Bolos (in portuguese) or Gatêau (in french)...and Pies= Torta (in portuguese) or Torte in English)

[Bailey71907]

I said it like it said it but it wouldn't except my answer.

[FranklinMeza]

She isn't even saying ragazze,it sounds like ragazzi!

[Naseem200170]

I got it wrong and the only problem is that the first letter of the was not capitalized.

[deactivated user]

Why "eat" but not "are eating"? It marked me as incorrect.

[AnneliseSp]

Why is it always girl and never boy????

[Noxturnum]

definitely said ragazzi