"È la tua tartaruga."

Translation: It is your turtle.

[corbettf75]

Like most Italian words with four syllables, "tartaruga" should have the emphasis on the penultimate syllable: "tartaRUga".

[Arthur_Smith]

agreed, that robot Italian lady needs reprogramming. What's a tartarta, anyway?

[kelly371724]

A tartarta is a turtle

[Elon_the_Hittite]

Probably a tortoise in UK English, which distinguishes between these terrestrial animals and their marine cousins, turtles. Duo, hence presumably US English, just uses the word 'turtle'.

[benton.1]

I could not find any word in Italian spelled "tartarta".

[scoobert.doo]

control your turtle sir

[Hector290697]

Raphael is hot tempered. XD

[Normabailie55]

could it be" it is your turtle" or" is it your turtle" . Both are correct?

[benton.1]

Yes, in Italian the statement "It is your turtle." and the question "Is it your turtle?" are written exactly the same way.

[jordy]

Nope. In English, questions and statements follow different word orders.

• Example (question): "Are both correct?"
• Example (statement): "Both are correct."

[sguthrie1]

Except in English, we can ask a question by using a statement-- Just use rising intonation, and a question mark.
Duo does this a lot in the Spanish-English course.

[Diana451453]

That audio is really bad no matter how many times I listened I couldn’t get it.. it sounds like “pretaruga “

[Cavman144]

why is: "it is your own turtle", not correct?

[jordy]

That would require a "propria".

[Villi2611]

Would that become a question if i just put a question mark at the end?

[jordy]

Yes.

[GiuseppiSpin]

The first word sounds exactly like HAI, not e. There's too much aspiration. If I must translate what your lady says three times, I can never make it though the exercise. Very discouraging. i am Italian and i have taken Italian courses. Very discouraging.

It will be a while before I come back to duolingo, if at all.

[JennyDraper]

Jesus, she's enjoying the slow version a bit too much...

[a44a45]

The guy pronunces E like Ha!

[Route101]

I have noticed more recently that the recorded voice is sounding more like "hai" or "ai", not "è", very confusing!

[BadBanker]

I translated this as "Is it your turtle" Ok that is wrong but how do you say "Is it your turtle?"

[PCallisto]

It can be said the same way except the inflection is different and there would be a question mark. I made the same mistake.

[David-1960]

I said "it is your tortoise" and got it wrong. I guess a turtle and a tortoise are not the same "tartaruga"

[lexablackbird]

I just tried "tortoise" and DL accepted it, 10/2018

[gpriddy]

I think a "tartaruga" can be either a turtle or a tortoise.

[Renee850484]

When do we learn how to clean turtle meat out of the bottle?

[ganna318886]

È in the frist of the sentence means is I mean a question like (is that you turtle?)

[deactivated user]

Yes, è means it is.

[Jonathan120370]

I said tortoise instead of turtle and my answer is incorrect!?

[deactivated user]

There wasn't tipe any IT on hits.

[JeanPhilip714244]

can not understand a single word of that child voice specially the world turtle need to reprogram the voice