"I bought two postage stamps at the post office."
Translation:ゆうびんきょくできってを二まいかいました。
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And it sometimes changes the meaning of the word. Duo should know better than this.
Worse. It's like splitting into 〇hos〇p〇ital '〇s bed Splitting きょmakes as much sense as splitting 's
Absolutely agree. Those who downvote your post don't seem to understand that learning a language requires certain amount of mental effort.
That would make sense if the way they were splitting it up didn't automatically lay out the particles for you, like it does with で and を in this sentence. If anything, this takes less knowledge of the grammar and just vocabulary knowledge.
How does it make sense to split ゆうびんきょくできってを into ［ゆうびん］［き］［ょくできってを］？？？Why do you do this, Duo. Why.
What the heck is up with this exercise? I haven't seen any other languages on here that split up letters and combine words together like that. Just because Japanese doesn't place spaces in between the words, I'm supposed to know to look for "I bought two sta" "mpsatthepostoffice"?
Splitting up some words into multiple tiles and then sticking some words and particles together into one makes this one needlessly complicated. You wouldn't expect someone to learn english by breaking up the sentence as [I boug] [ht] [two] [sta] [mps] [at the post office]
God there are so many better ways to increase difficulty than breaking up words into nonsense chunks! Why don't they just give you more options or more similar options instead so you have to know the precise word?! The way this is now it's more like a visual puzzle than language practice.
so many complaints in the comments and Duolingo isn't taking any action to correct their mistakes... customer service is top tier quality right here
Unlike other language courses, Japanese contributors do not read the comments. If you have a problem with certain sentence you need to use the report system. They do respond there (they fixed at least a dozen of sentences I reported).
Also, the release of the new & improved Japanese tree draws near, it's a waste of time attempting to fix the old course, because it will be replaced in a few weeks.
I didn't notice it and ended up using the keyboard... really confusing to split it up like that.
I'ds type as the same form as the textm but the check appointed a mistake
This exercise is flawed, but it's not a bad way to rack your brains actually. All the parts are in it, you just have to think what means what. When I saw the "ょくできってを" I nearly jumped the triple axel as well, but listen. The first ょ is small, so it's part of another word. で きって を consists two particles (で and を), so it's "きって を", and "xyょくで", meaning some location. It's not that hard to figure it out. Start using your gray matter people!
The particles and small charachters are indeed prety easy to work with, with a little experience. However, we, new learners, are attemping to assemble words out of jumbled parts of words, and then Duo says, "Ahah, gacha!" when you didn't catch that a letter was missing from the answer it offered you. That's not scouring your brain, that's scouring the page. It would be like scouring this comment for the several letters I intentionally dropped from my words, some of which you may or may not have caught.
Hewever, scouring the page or scouring the brain, it is irrelivent, because the goal here is niether. The goal here is to teach Japanese. I'm sure it would also be a great brain exercise to keep track of the vowel count subtracted from the consonant count while reading Hamlet, but it wouldn't much help your comprehension of the story.
I don't get what you are saying. You have the English sentence, you know you are expected to produce equivalent Japanese sentence. You have all the bits of what is the answer in front of your eyes and you are saying that this is hard?
Maybe these "pieces" should be broken to single characters then, so this would indeed require from you to come up with the Japanese sentence on your own.
The problem is that when you split a kanji composite like this, it can (and usually will) play havoc with the voiced pronunciations. And that will cause people to learn things incorrectly.
