"Папа сидит возле двери и курит."
Translation:Dad is sitting near the door and smoking.
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Need to fix the English on this one. "Sits and smokes" or "is sitting and smoking" but you can't say "is sitting and smokes".
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I think that is sitting near the door and smoking does not sound natural... better is sitting and smoking near the door but i get wrong answer
I wrote "sitting near the door smoking", and it was correct. I think, perhaps, this should be the standard answer
Either ordering is fine and it's better to maintain the one most similar to the Russian to preserve meaning/emphasis.
I entered "dad is sitting and smoking near the door", which was rejected - why?
I think the English translation needs an extra "is" - "and is smoking". Not having it in the options for selecting words is really confusing.
yes, either "Dad is sitting and smoking near the door" wich is marked as wrong or "dad is sitting near the door and is smoking" wich is not possible with the boxes because there is only 1 is.
what's the difference between около, возле, and близко? do they all mean near/by?
Dad is sitting near the door and smoking is not idiomatic English: Dad sits near the door and smokes is fine and should be accepted especially as it is MUCH better than the solution
The new update of this app seems to have lest tolerance for misspelling. I can't even spell in english. It makes it very frustrating to get an answer "wrong" because of one letter
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It is a common TTS problem. You should be able to hear it in the slower version. Also, the sentence would sound unnatural without И, so a native or a fluent speaker would put И even without hearing it clearly.
True, but I guess it is something we must get used to. In Russian pop-songs, I hear "Ты и я" all of the time and it only sounds like 2 words.
It sounds awkward to use "he" here since we have one subject doing both actions.
