"Cậu bé nghe tiếng con mèo."

Translation: The little boy hears the cat.

[tomleeaus]

Lắng nghe is listen, nghe thấy is hear

[schabranigdo]

How can you differentiate between listens to and hears? Or is there no difference in vietnamese? In english there is a difference in intentionality. hearing is passive while listening is active.

[PatrickLam13]

I would suggest that tiếng con mèo could also be translated as meowing.

[kuah]

Cats can make more sounds than just meowing, so I think that might be quite a different translation.

[Malcolm436411]

I think you are right as the "tiếng" suggests to me that it is the cat's voice that is heard rather than noise created by other means.

[hug163092]

Kuah dear u speak cat so well that next time my cat tries to say sth i will call u

[SheTuti]

I hear cat language!

[DarinWard1]

Last time this sentence came up the was no "tiếng". Now there is. clap clap duolingo

[Mmoaa]

So... 'tiếng' means: 聲（seng)sound or hear聽(teng) ?

[c3trash]

Is cậu bé little boy or just boy? Sometimes I just put boy and it wants little boy. But I don't see it consistently marked a little boy.

[Steve804244]

I have no idea why "the boy listens to the cat" is marked incorrect. Why must "nghe tiếng" be translated as hear?