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"今日はサッカーをやると思います。"
Translation:I think we will play soccer today.
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Football should absolutely be accepted here, considering it's how it's known in about 90% of the countries of the world.
Jack's point is that almost exclusively in the US (and, thanks to the US, in Japan) do people say "soccer". To the rest of the world that same sport is "football" (since the US kind is "American football", even in Japan!). Making "soccer" the only acceptable answer may not be technically wrong, but it's pretty inconsiderate.
Actually Australia calls it soccer as well. Largely because we have 3 other sports we call football
The kind of football outside the US is called "association football" (soccer). On the internet, it is unclear what football means when it's just the word "football," so it's slightly better to say "soccer."
To accept "I'm thinking" would require changing the question to the -て form, as in "思っています" instead of what they used, "思います."
So with how they worded the question, it is just Present Tense, "I think" rather than the Present Continuous Tense of "I am thinking."
The question would have to be "今日はサッカーをやると思っています"
Technically those sentences are different, and I'm willing to go with that for the purpose of demonstrating that I understand the exercise. But to me as a native English speaker, "I'm thinking of playing soccer," and, "I think I'll play soccer," are interchangeable.
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I wrote "I think I will play soccer today", and got it was wrong.. Is the best translation "we"?
と is a particle that means "with".
私はかれと話しません。
watashi wa kare to hanashimasen.
I (wa) he with not talk.
I will not talk with him. / I will not talk to him.
You know, you should read a question carefully before answering anything. ;) This person asked about the use of と in this sentence, and you answer with a completely different one...
So, here と is just marking the quote "I think ~" => "~と思います". It is used with verb of declaration like 言う. Hope it will help you :)
Uhhhh What's Soccer? ...You meant Football, Duo? Why didn't you just say so?
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"I think today we will play soccer" is grammatical English and the meaning is very close (if subtly different in nuance). Should this be accepted, and if not then what would the difference in phrasing be for that?
I don't understand why "I think we play soccer today" is not accepted? I mean, present tense or future one is the same in Japanese, and today is the main subject of the sentence so it could something like : "What do we do in sports class today? - I think today we play soccer"
I may be wrong since I'm not a native so feel free to correct me! Thank you.
That is because the verb they used is in present tense, "I think," rather than present continuous tense "I'm thinking"
The present tense is 思います.
the present continuous tense is 思っています.
Tripped on exactly that even thou I was thinking about the correct sport :/
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The are not opposites. They are two different verbs meaning different things. やる (usually written in kana) means 'do', 'play', 'perform' and やめる (止める) means 'stop', 'resign', 'give up' depending on the context of the sentence (if the meaning is 'resign' or 'quit', a different kanji would be used: 辞める). I hope this helps.
Important Grammar Note: If you're thinking of doing something, it's "[casual volitional]と思う". In this sentence, you would say "今日はサッカーをやろうと思います。"
More Duolingo deficiencies that make it such a waste of time compared to what it could be if it was well designed.
Hey, how about we call regular football for "association football" and rugby for "American football"? That way everybody gets to call their sport "football" without the confusion.
Well, the obvious answer is that in Japanese, "probably" is a different word than the verb "(I) think", just like in English. I'm not saying they can't express the same idea, but they're simply not the same thing, and only the latter is used in this sentence.
In this case you'd probably use tabun, or sakka o asobu deshou / asobimashou (to omou!).
Different kanji. Those kanji are only translated as "to think", a verb, never "probably" which is an adverb I think
