"двойка по математике"
Translation:an F in mathematics
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I got dinged for "F in math" because I didn't write "an F in math." But this is not a sentence, so I see no need to insist on an article.
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And Duolingo accepts grades without articles in other lessons. Disgusting inconsistency.
An F?? двойка is 2. On the grading system where A = 5 etc it should be D. Anyway this system is completely unfamiliar to me and I think DuoLingo should also consider grading systems vary enormously between Singapore, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and the UK - all of whom will learn Russian through English.
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This whole section seems poorly thought out. I'm just trying to learn Russian, so correctly translating the Russian words should be fine. There is no obvious greater context that this sentence is sitting in so it seems unfair to just expect someone who didn't grow up in the Russian school system to know this.
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in another place i just typed (A in Chinese) and it was correct
why do I have to add "an" here and all my answer is considered wrong for that (and will have to re-do it again and waste my time)?
Honestly, I'm fine with learning the cultural translation for which Russian number grade corresponds to which American letter grade. But wow, it would seriously help to make sure the actual relevant number is available somewhere in each of these questions, so it's clear that what I'm supposed to be learning here is in fact the Russian number 2, and that this number, when given as a grade, corresponds to an American "F", rather than the incorrect notion that the Russian word "двойка" translates to the English letter "F".
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I do not know the American system: "A"="5", "B"="4" and "2" is not equal to "D"?! but "F"="2"???
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A 2 is a 2 all over the world, why on Earth should we be supposed to know about American grade system? The world is big, we're not all of us from that particular little part of it.