"Oni słuchają tamtego mężczyzny."

Translation: They are listening to that man.

[AidanGiord]

Can someone explain to be why this is in Genitive case? Is the Genitive case like the backwards of Accusative case?

[immery]

you ask in a perfect time , here is explanation. https://www.duolingo.com/comment/16569658

[claudiuas]

So I go with point 8. because the verb requires the genitive. Long way to read, I don't know how you learn all these cases

[Rafalopopolsku]

I guess it is automatic thoughts and way to write for native speakers, for the learners it needs a lot of practice and a kind of immersion... (I know I do write for nothing, just writing trivial thoughts...)

[RokKar93]

Would be nice if the audio wouldn't glitch and it just skips saying "oni".

[Jellei]

On my side everything plays correctly, with very clear "oni" at the beginning...

[qVnjZvk0]

Did you listen with bluetooth speakers/headphones?
They often shutdown between sounds and start again too slow.

[Jellei]

Huh, I recently used such headphones and indeed a lot of times the sound was cut at the beginning. I thought it's just some temporary problem of Duolingo itself, but I guess it makes more sense if it was because of my headphones.

[Mark670475]

Same here. The first couple of syllables of audio don't play. I suspect the glitch is in my mobile phone, not the Duolingo programme.

It happens only the first time the audio plays. A "work-around" is always to play the audio twice before keying an answer.