"집이 좁습니다."
Translation:The house is small.
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Duolingo accepts "집이 춥습니다" "The house is cold", "집이 낮습니다" "The house is low" as correct answers. it doesn't even tell you there is a typo or that you have a mistake. many other qustions have the same problem. choose any wrong adjective of the multiple choices and it will still pass as a correct answer. I have to go to the discussion of each question to see if my answer is actually correct. this should be fixed.
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How can you hear the difference between 춥 and 좁 especially when it's spoken fast(normal)?
In English, you hear /o/ in the southern hemisphere but not the northern hemisphere, except as a diphthong as in ⟨no⟩ (/noʊ/) in North American English. North American ⟨o⟩ sounds tend to be lower* (/ɔ/) and so the difference from /u/ (which is higher*) is more exaggerated than in Korean.
If you have no trouble hearing it in French and German though…
- /ㅗ/ (/o/)
- French ⟨haut⟩
- French ⟨hôtel⟩
- French ⟨bureau⟩
- German ⟨Moral⟩
- German ⟨Boot⟩
- /ㅜ/ (/u/)
- French ⟨coup⟩
- German ⟨kulant⟩
- German ⟨Hut⟩
Both German and French contrast /ɔ/, /o/, and /u/ in the rounded back* vowel space. So if you can manage those, then it shouldn’t be a problem in Korean which has /o/ and /u/ as the only rounded back* vowels. (North Korean, however, does have /ɔ/, and it’s represented by ⟨ㅓ⟩!)
* High vowels refer to those at the top of the chart. Low vowels refer to those at the bottom of the chart. (High and low are also “close” and “open.”) Front and back vowels are labeled in the chart below. And rounding distinction is described in the chart as well.