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- "Słoń lubi ciasteczka."
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It's not an excuse, but sometimes I get annoyed when I get a "wrong" just because I forgot to write the pronoum before the elephant, woman, etc. It could get you a right/check and remember you that you have to write in some way (if it's not the subject or the main language that you are trying to learn).
For those who needs (or trying) to learn from a different language to english and then to polish, sometimes, gets complicated.
For example, my mother language is Portuguese, then I translate to english and then I translate to Polish.
Well, but don't you also have to use an article (those are articles)? "Um elefante" or "O elefante"...
Anyway, while I understand that's annoying, it won't change. This course is also taken by Polish people learning English, so we can't accept answers that are technically just wrong.
The ń sound "nyee" is audible here but wasn't on a previous question where it just listed słoń. So is it really only pronounced when followed by a consonant or something?
I don't think it's different sounds. You can try listening to different IVONA voices speaking the same sentences https://www.ivona.com/pl I checked słoń and słon lubi ciasteczka with Jacek voice, and it sounds ok.
But it makes... no sense. Negation would require the genitive case:
Słoń LUBI ciasteczka - An/The elephant LIKES cookies
Słoń NIE LUBI ciasteczek - An/The elephant does NOT LIKE cookies
The amount of times I've needed to say cookie when in Poland is 0 in 11 years of going 2/3 times a year. Could we not change cookie for pączek (doughnut) instead, especially as there is an actual doughnut day on Poland (what the UK think of as shrove Tuesday or pancake day i think) :-)
For your British students could you not accept cakes or biscuits instead of the very American cookies
The options i had to choose from included "eating" and "children."
What are you trying to say, Duolingo?
