"Wanafunzi wanaandika."

Translation: The students are writing.

[Gwennerstrand]

Why is "the students write" wrong?

[krina730958]

Wana andika. Andika means to write

[Gazelle1596]

In Swahili orthography, however, there would be no gap between wana- and -andika.

[Aurevir]

Is the 'naan' part one syllable or two? And if it's one, is it a different sound than if there was just one 'a'?

[Gazelle1596]

two.
Wa-na-an-di-ka

[AGreatUserName]

Actually: wa-na-a-NDI-ka ... the "nd" represents a prenasalised plosive here, which counts as a single consonant sound in Swahili phonology.

[Gazelle1596]

As far as I know Swahili phonology includes both the prenasalised plosive AND the separate. In this case I am pretty sure that it is as I wrote. The prenasalised plosive tends to occur at the beginning of a word.
Where do you get your information on that from? :)

[AnnaPiotro605518]

I put "the students write and it's wrong" it says it should be "the students are writing" I am surprised because previously there was no difference between present simple and present continuous