"Ho un chilogrammo di zucchero in totale."
Translation:I have a kilogram of sugar in total.
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Getting really annoyed at hearing "una" on the audio when the correct translation is "un". I have reported this more times than I can remember, and it's still there.
I know you can tell whether it should be masc/fem from looking at the word, but the audio should be correct regardless.
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Altogether is also much better English in this context - but whatever, we're learning Italian.
The English translations accepted are awful. "I have a kilogramme of sugar total" is grammatical nonsense, and "I have a kilogramme of sugar in total" is also nonsense, because you do not add up the grains of sugar, since sugar comes as a quantity, and amount, and you cannot use the word "total" in this context. By far the best translation is "I have a kilogramme of sugar altogether" - which DL marks as wrong!!
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accidentally typed 2x mm in kilogram and the whole sentence was marked wrong...not nice :-(
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Probably the worst pronunciation I've encountered so far on this site. The female voice is straight up saying "Om" like the meditation phrase. It's not even close to "Ho un" unless you use the slow playback.
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Does anyone else have trouble trouble with Duo recognizing when they say "chilogrammo"?
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what is your base language? maybe it's about how you roll the 'r'. that probably has to be an alveolar frontal fricative or how they call it. quite unlike the american english one.
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I speak American English. But I grew up learning Spanish and have always been able to roll my r's. I'm sure it's not perfect, but I'm surprised to be so consistently counted wrong on one word. No other words seem to have a problem with my pronunciation.
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Sadly duolingo has nothing to let me check right now how it responds to my pronunciation, but i don't remember any problems it seems to be important to emphasize the vowels of the correct syllables. if i remember correctly here it was like: key lo gr'ah mo - with weight on 'ey' and 'ah'
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Then you can report it with the other button and propose it to be added to the list of officially accepted answers.
Here in the forum it only makes sense to write a comment, if you actually add some information about what you tried as an answer or any information at all. Like this your contribution is none.