"Read this when you have time."
Translation:Прочитай это, когда у тебя будет время.
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First of all, "читай это, когда у тебя будет время", you forgot to translate "have".
No, it is not wrong. But your choice is different.
The choice from the task has a meaning "to read something from the beginning to the end" (because of the perfective "прочитай").
Your choice has a meaning (some kind of) "to read for a while". Your choice implies that the book is realy huge, that it has a lot of information, so your interlocutor has to spend a lot of time to read it. Or, another meaning is that the conversation is about regular mass media, for example "here is a newspaper, it is published once a week, I want you to read this".
So in Russian there is a difference but, as in English is not, both should be accepted
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Do you have to use будет here to match the future implied by the perfective прочитай?
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No. This choice has the word "будет" because of the word "when" ("когда") that implies that the interlocutor currently doesn't have the time.
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here is the bad translation, becuase" prochti" is simalar to "prochitai"... and more standard
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If you use the polite/plural form "вас" in the second part of this sentence, you should also use this form in the first part:
Прочитайте это, когда у вас будет время.
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Почему нельзя:"Читай это, когда у тебя есть время"??? http://images.vfl.ru/ii/1519757509/cb115f7d/20758969.jpg
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Уважаемые модераторы, во всплывающей подсказке ошибка в слове "когда", исправьте, пожалуйста.
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If you want to use perfective aspect (in this case pf. imperative Прочитай(те)), the meaning that you want to give him(her) should be "Read all this when you have time." And, будет doesn't have to be there, it can be omitted.
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This is another one of those exercises in which the author of the exercise has failed to allow all possible answers. The authors that write such awful exercises do not serve the purpose of Duolingo well. In this case, the author has failed to allow for answers in the second person plural, with an implication of polite speech. This is another exercise which allows only one possible solution, and thus it is an example of bad design. The Duolingo developers need to be attentive to catch such things.
