"A televízióban japán lányok táncolnak."

Translation: There are Japanese girls dancing on television.

[Martybet]

I hope it's not a flat Screen

[b_jamil]

For me, "on the television" really does mean on top of a television set. As in "what's on the television? - Dad's book, mum's flower pot, my spectacles, your beer and a horde of well-balanced, highly talented Japanese dancing girls".
If the dancing girls are a little less ambitious and take up any space, it would be healthier for them to be "on television".

[Avramito]

"Japanese girls are dancing on TV" was accepted, I feel this would be the most natural translation.

[clairelanc3]

Why did you reject "are dancing" whereas you use it in the correction?

[racernick1991]

televízióban is translated into "in the television" Why does it mean on the television ?

[mizinamo]

We see them through the medium of the television service.

In English, we usually talk about watching someone "on television", with the preposition "on".

Hungarian seems to use -ban, which is usually like "in" in English.

[wxfrog]

It still sounds funny in English. I get the vision of Japanese girls dancing on top of a TV. :)

I think it would be more correct to say "on TV" as opposed to "on the TV."

[Krisbaudi]

Duo says: televízióban is IN the television.
And when I write it down, it is wrong!!!

[-BigWayne19-]

------- because "on tv " means you see them by means of your television service whereas "on THE tv " means on top of it. in the tv is restricted to technicians . . .

Big 26 may 18

[alan.asquith]

I've had on the tv marked wrong . Very annoying , as the sentence clearly says A televizióban

[mizinamo]

It also clearly says a televízióban, yet "in the television" is not correct, either :)

You have to translate not only Hungarian words to English words but also Hungarian grammar to English grammar.