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- "This week, I will go to a po…
"This week, I will go to a pool with him."
Translation:今週、かれといっしょにプールに行きます。
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Why is the particle に being used twice here? I think I understood it being used after pool but not after いっしょ -- in other exercises, に did not appear after いっしょ :/
いっしょ nearly always comes with に, like a set. I don't know the other exercises you are referring to, but not including に is rare.
They're pretty much interchangeable, in this case. に just has a slightly stronger implication that the pool is your main destination, and you intend to arrive there.
Why can't you mix up the order of the particles here? I thought Japanese was generally flexible in this way.
You can if by "mix up" you mean changing the order of the sentence as long as the particles go with the correct words. There is a more natural order to saying a sentence though. It might be that Duolingo is trying to teach the most natural order of the words so we sound more like a native.
I used に in place of the いっしょう and was marked incorrect. に is with いっしょうにis "together with" it has social connotations that using "with" doesn't capture.
It doubles up the consonant of the next syllable. E.g.: いっしょ = ish-sho; いっさい = is-sai, いっぴき = ip-piki.
Because then you're making KONSHUU the topic, so there's no need for that. Leave out the wa after konshu.
