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When meaning 'the' is it pronounced 'o' or 'omicron?' Because she definitely said omicron which doesn't seem right to me.
Then it is always pronounced "o" and not "omicron" (same in the sentence with H as the feminine definite article, it should be "ee" and not "eeta"). I believe the problem is caused by linking this program to a "letter to sound" computer program instead of recording each sentence for Duolingo. You can see the same problem in the Swedish course where sometimes short words are read out as if they were abbreviations or the other way around. So, a long story short: The audio is incorrect. :-)
The course is teaching us the Alphabet, and O is omicron, not "the", right?
It can be both, "omicron" being the name of the letter (as in this skill) and "ο" being a masculine definite article.
Yeah I see a lot of that in the Swedish course but I don't think its as noticable tho but maybe when slowed down it did shows a lot.
The last one was wrong because I typed α when they asked for alpha. Then this one's wrong because I spelled out ονικρον instead of just typing the letter ο. I'm afraid that they really have a consistency problem that needs to be fixed.
I completely agree. Seeing this repeatedly -- it's making me not want to bother with the course and go elsewhere. I've done ancient Greek, so I'm looking to learn the modern, but the way they're back and forth between the letter and the word is ridiculous.. No consistency. Hopefully they'll figure it out -- but this course is already out of Beta which doesn't really encourage me to think they will.
ο means the for male genre nouns and το means the for neuter genre nouns
No, αυτός is the Greek word for "this". "Αυτός" doesn't even substitute the article when used with a noun, you would have to use both, for example "this man" would be "αυτός ο άνδρας" in Greek.
The word "The" changes its form depending on singular/plural and gender. See examples in the tips and notes.
The audio said 'omicron' so I answered 'O' and was correct. For another question the audio said 'eeta', I answered 'H' and was incorrect; they required 'the'. These inconsistencies make the test ludicrous.
I agree. There seem to be inconsistencies for what the correct answer is in these exercises. Which is sad because this is a great program and idea for learning another language.
Yes, article/letter exercises might be problematic at times, but we have been trying to create a more consistent tree 2 ;)
Please see my reply to another comment above. I also wrote out ομικρον and was marked wrong. If the speaker in the audio said the SOUND of the letter, I'd have typed just the letter. But when the audio provides the entire word for the letter, I type the letter's name. Yet it inconsistently jumps back and forth and marks people wrong for doing the same thing twice. This really needs to be remedied. That's not a consistent tree issue -- that's just laziness in design. Also, there is extreme confusion introducing the articles when still learning the letters without better documentation in the tips (which not everyone reads anyway).
All that to say, Duolingo's efforts are appreciated, but needs heavy work on this course (and a few others will similar problems). I truly hope they will do something, not just leave it because it's already out of Beta. I hate having to stop every lesson to keep reporting problems.
I don't know what kind of exercise it was. Either "o" or "omicron" would be ok.
