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2013
This is precisely what I was wondering, whether the seasons might really be seen as referring to a different part of the year than in Europe and North America. Thanks.
Seasons are determined by earth's position relative to the sun. Anyone who bases the seasons on weather just does not know what a season is.
The Summer Solstice (start of summer for the northern hemisphere/winter for the southern hemisphere) is on June 21st, every year.
The Autumn Equinox (end of summer/winter and start of Autumn/Spring in the North/South) is on September 23rd, every year.
The Winter Solstice is on December 21st, every year.
The Spring Equinox is on March 23rd, every year.
These are the starting and ending points of every season, every year. Duolingo needs to correct their spreading of misinformation or put an * with a cultural appendix.
2013
That is certainly astronomically true, though banal, even tedious. The seasons, as experienced in the Mediterranean Basin, were indeed imported into the language of astronomy and used the world over. The word "season," though, refers not only to these astronomical divisions, but also to local divisions of the year, such as the rainy season and the dry season, as experienced in many of the monsoon-affected regions of the Indian Ocean basin.
2013
I was wondering whether we would get different season words, because of the monsoon climate. I guess we just translate them as our familiar words and put them in a different part of the year?
In previous exercises with months and seasons, I remember one of the sentences saying "June, July, August are the months of summer." I understand that the seasons take place at different times of the year depending on when in the world you are, but for the purposes of trying to learn the language and trying to use clues, let's keep a bit of consistency in these exercises. It didn't help me at all having a sentence that stated that Summer goes from April to June.
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But look at how much we all learned about Vietnam! I didn't know anything about the climate there other than what I'd seen on TV and in the movies. Fascinating. Thanks.