"eeta already"
Translation:ήτα ήδη
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I wrote ε for eeta but it was incorrect, it said to write η instead.
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ε is the greek letter epsilon, which is pronounced like a short e. η is the greek letter eta, which is pronounced like a long e. That is why it said you were wrong
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Does Greek use the accents in everyday writing? And how do you write them using the Greek keyboard?
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It was discussed here https://www.duolingo.com/comment/17447838 "You turn your keyboard into Greek, you type ; next to l and then the Greek vowel you want to accent" I think they should write it somewhere in the description of the course.
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WHY NOT PUT TOGETHER THE REPLIES IN GREEK AND THE REPLIES IN ENGLISH? To change the keyboard is borrowing!
WHY NOT PUT TOGETHER THE REPLIES IN GREEK AND THE REPLIES IN ENGLISH?To change the keyboard is borrowing!
Having been around in Duolingo for a while you must have noticed that that's the case for all courses. ;) Translations from one language to another are not grouped together and it's not something the course contributors can arrange. Changing keyboards becomes second nature after a while though, and you're only at the beginning - don't worry too much about it!
Also, is 'borrowing' some kind of autocorrect-forced spelling of another word? I haven't come across the implied meaning before...
As for the capital letters, I'm sure you're just frustrated and need to vent, but please don't make using them a habit when typing in Duo. ;)
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I thanks for the reply. I put an "ow" definitively out of place, but if you are willing to correct all that is in a wrong place in DL, a tough work is awaiting you! I, "the learner", don't know what is and what is not in the possibilities of the contributors, but I think that they could contribute by asking the same question to whom can do. Having been around in Duolingo, I noticed that in all other courses I have a list of characters useful for them, at the bottom of the proposed sentence.
The 'problem' is that Greek uses a whole different alphabet and computer coding even for letters that look similar is in fact different. Notice how Greek Α is different from Latin script A: ΑA. It's just not feasible to provide a full list of Greek letters on the screen, with all possible accents as well, because we're talking about dozens of them! :) So switching between keyboards is the norm for these languages, and again, getting used to it will come pretty quickly!
