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- "Io cucino il riso."
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You may be hearing the rolled [r]. It usually has 2 or 3 consecutive "flaps".
So cucino can mean both bake as well as boil? Like it's 'prepare the food' because in my native language dutch when we say cook we mean we prepare food in water.
Yes, cucinare is "prepare the food" when it involves a flame (like boiling, baking, frying...)
Does anyone else find it frustrating that the word "make" instead of "cook" is not accepted? In english "to make food" is way more common than "to cook food" and means the same thing!
In dutch we say: "Ik kook de rijst" (I boil the rice). Is that not correct in English?
Anybody know how "il riso" is actually supposed to sound? That can't be right... The "L" roll and the "R" roll are slightly different and damn near impossible to produce next to each other, it seems.
Imagine if someone put I get to know the rice... WTH is wrong with their brains?:), lol
Why is 'Lo' wrong, but 'lo' correct? It is at the start of the sentence.....
Io is the personal pronoun & in English is I (that is capital, or upper case). In Italian Io starts with an I not L. The font being used in Duolingo is unfortunate since the capital "I" does not come out with one horizontal stroke across the top and another horizontal stroke across the bottom of the letter.
Regards, Ian MacGregor
I typed in ''I cook the rice'' and it gives me an error. It says the correct translation is: ''I cook the rice''. Porca madonna!!!
Claire, You have my sympathy. I am sure that this is just another Duolingo "Inconsistency". (" " is me being polite.) Ian MacG.
