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Same! I just got a FULL practice of just that one word... Ended up copy-paste the word, was much easier
exact same here, very useful practice in copy/paste.. apparently i gained a full 3% more fluency by learning just die Bundesliga though
Yes!! I have officially been equipped with the knowledge of how to copy/paste. Welp... thanks duo....
IMO "Die Bundesliga" should be translated as "The Bundesliga". Such proper names usually aren't translated. We don't translate "Premier League" in German either.
Why is this word introduced in one of the first lessons? It's either a joke, or purposefully provides bizarre insight into the priorities of German speakers.
obviously Dolingo has a deliberate sense of humour. Check out French course, it got its own share of jokes.
aren't there more important things to learn in the first lesson apart from football vocabulary?
Bundesliga is one of the top two tiers of German football league, not any German football league
I think it's not important, but essential to the every day life of German culture to understand. Regardless if you like soccer/football or not, German stadiums would be packed with fans supporting their teams. It's just another one of those things about culture that I think it's always good to learn about.
i agree it's the bundesliga have a so big number of big clubs and players like bvb and bayern
I know! they are pretty good. the only thing is if there are any other americans reading ur post they will think ur talking about american football-not soccer
This is quite funny. I'm new to German, but I'm not sure if you need "Bundesliga" at the beginning stages of the language, and the same sentence is repeating over and over again.
Yeah you're right it is quite funny! I guess it's for people who are into soccer like me⚽️
I think it's not important, but essential to the every day life of German culture to understand. Regardless if you like soccer/football or not, German stadiums would be packed with fans supporting their teams. It's just another one of those things about culture that I think it's always good to learn about.
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As far as I know, the Bundesliga (first to third) is THE German professional soccer league. The others are - more or less - amateurs.
Yes, you are right. The Bundesliga (1. to 3.) are considered as professional, while the rest is considered as amateur leagues. BUT several teams in the Regionalliga also pay a lot of money for their players and they play on a more or less high level (The multiple Regionalligen are the league below the third Bundesliga). So even when its considered an amateuer league, some players can live pretty well from it.
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yep, as far as I know, as soon as competition enters a sport, the great god Mammon plays a role, even on a local level.
Why is this question appearing over and over for almost all 20 questions... It does not even seem to be a properly translated word?
Most courses on DuoLingo start with basic things, like "apple", articles, etc. but German DL teaches "German soccer league" as one of the first things. German on DL is gonna be fun...
Because die Bundesliga is a feminine word, it needs the feminine article die.
As for why it's feminine: grammatical gender is mostly arbitrary, so it's best to learn the gender of a word when you learn the word. (A good dictionary will be helpful here.)
No, this isn't italian, there is very little to indicate the gender, you must use your memory. However i have seen some "tendencies" such as -er words and alcoholic beverages (except beer) tend to be male
A team is a group of players that play at once -- typically at least eleven, possible with some more in case a player needs to be exchanged during a game or is ill.
A league is a group of teams that are all roughly equally strong, or that are all found in the same geographical area, or where the players are about the same age.
Typically, games will take place between teams that are in the same league.
At this point I just have The German soccer league on copy/paste for this lesson. I'm at the end of the lesson and I used ctrl+v so many times
Because Duolingo uses US English by default, and "soccer" is what association football is most often called there.
Duolingo uses American English by default, though where possible, UK English is accepted in translation exercises.
It must be "Fussball Bundesliga" because there are many more Bundesliga in Germany, as f.e. Basketball, Handball a.s.o. Reported it on 29.07.2017
I agree. Why is this so important that it appears in a lesson to teach us about sports? And why not translated as "Federal League," which is literal, if not accurate or idiomatic? Yes, yes, I know that many Germans are obsessed with football. And it is useful to know this term if one comes across it in German. How about the Olympics? Tennis?
I've answered this correctly multiple times...can we please move on to the next?
Why have an entire lesson on one phrase? I literally just started copy pasting.
If die is THE in the feminine, why is The German Soccer League not DAS?
It's not das because the word Bundesliga is not neuter; it is feminine.
Grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) is not necessarily connected to physical sex (male, female, inanimate objects).
Something is wrong with this program. In this lesson I was asked to translate "The Bundesliga" 20-30 times. Always the same term, so in the end I copy-pasted... :-(
Any way the people of Duolingo dont read any of the comments because the problems continue
My machine won't progress to another question after I correctly answer this one. Also, the programme won't allow me to skip it. This glitch needs fixing as I others have had the same problem.
The same thing is being repeated here and not very beneficial. Please work this bug out of the system. Thank you.
I had to write this again and again for a bazillion times! I don't think I learned anything in this one.
bundesliga it would be easier to just put socccer team rather than german soccer league
But those are different things -- a league consists of many teams that play against each other at roughly the same level or in the same area or where players are about the same age.
I won't ever forget the word Bundesliga now. After repeating that word gor god knows how long.
I think it's not important, but essential to the every day life of German culture to understand. Regardless if you like soccer/football or not, German stadiums would be packed with fans supporting their teams. It's just another one of those things about culture that I think it's always good to learn about.
How about: "I'd like to eat breakfast", at this stage. Come on! I'm curious to see the rest of the tree. :)
Its been repeating Die Bundesliga for minutes and not going beyond this point.
As below, I also had to repeat the same sentence for maybe 50 times !!! Crazy!!
Why is there an entire lesson on Die Bundesliga, asking the same questions about this over and over and over again. Something needs fixed
Yep, it repeats the same thing through out the entire exercise...Copy and paste to get out...
How do I advance from this ever-repeating "die Bundesliga" exercise? is this some kind of a loop?
I wrote the football league, the Bundesliga is the German football league, tell me where I'm wrong
Because the word "football" is English and "soccer is American. For American people it makes sense having these two different words. But in general you are right.
Is the effing German Soccer LEague the only word in this lesson???????? I have gotten it 5 times in a row now to translate "die Bundesliga" into English.
