"강아지가 어려운 언어로 말해요."
Translation:The puppy is speaking in a difficult language.
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is hard wrong? I don't understand. Does it have to be difficult they mean the same
Yes. It very roughly corresponds to:
저는 한국어를 해요. (I speak Korean.)
저는 한국어로 말해요. (I speak in Korean.)
Isn't it equally correct to translate this, "The puppy speaks difficult languages."? Singular and plural nouns are not always distinguished in Korean.
"The puppy speaks difficult languages." is now accepted.
Edit: 말하다 is to say, not to be able to converse in (a language), so "speaks difficult languages" is not a good translation. It can instead be "speaks in difficult languages".
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Doesn't Korean make the distinction between simple present and present continuous like English does?
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Thanks!
Hey Ash-Fred, you're doing a great job! Just so you know... Thank you for helping out!
But en train de is just progressive present in French which is the same thing to continuous present... In fact Korean tends to imply progressive tense with just using present tense, but 고 있다 can also be used to express progressive tense.
Yes, just like French. You can simply say "Je mange." for "I am eating."
Wow this voice clip is very fast, especially trying to get the words at the end. You can hardly hear the differences in the words
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I asked this before too. In English there is a distinction in using the present simple and the present continuous. The first indicates a habit (I brush my teeth (every day)), the second indicates the action you are doing right now (I am brushing my teeth (as we speak)). In Korean they do not make this distinction.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/24585635$from_email%3Dcomment&comment_id%3D32292255
Just because we don't get it doesn't mean it's difficult man, who knows HAHA
is the distinction between "dog" and "puppy" really important in Korean? can't "the dog speaks in a difficult language" be an acceptable translation?
From what I understand so far here and other resources, "강아지 " in this lesson is a word for a baby dog or a young dog, not older or adult dogs like " 강아지 ".
Otherwise, I can understand why we might think about "dog" as a choice.
In a way, it is a great sentence of contrast and extremes with memory triggers: puppy, speeaking, language, difficult.
Cute?
I was wondering the same thing since I walk my dog here in Korea and people always comment saying "kang-a-ji" but it's not a puppy at all, so I assume it doesn't really matter, but Duolingo is probably just stressing the technicality.
Hi! Korean word order is Subject - (Adjective) Object - Verb so this sentence literally translates to "puppy - difficult - language - speaks OR is currently speaking". I hope that answers your question?? :-]
I understand that -를 marks words as objects and -로 would usually be translated in English with a preposition, so here "언어로" means we are speaking in that language. Would a native Korean speaker ever use -를 to talk about speaking a language?
In other words, does "강아지가 어려운 언어로 말해요" make any sense? I'm having a hard time with really internalizing when to use -를 versus -로, since sometimes the former works... as in "한국어를 잘해요" ...
Any advice appreciated!
As far as I've seen it goes like this: 1.할국어를 해요 2. 한국어로 말해요 Both kinda imply the same meaning but use different particles and second requires 말하다.
Since I asked this question it's become a little clearer to me. In English, the word "speak" can be transitive of intransitive; thus we can say "I am speaking English" (where "English" is a direct object) or "I am speaking in English" (in which "English" is part of the adverbial phrase "in English").
It's loosely similar in Korean, that verbs can either take objects or not. The verb 말하다 does not take a language as an object, so we can append [language][으]로 to indicate we are 말하다-ing by the use of that language.
하다, however, can take the name of a language as a direct object, so we can simply use 을/를 to indicate this.
In other words... it very roughly aligns like so:
저는 한국어를 해요. (I speak Korean.)
저는 한국어로 말해요. (I speak in Korean.)
Gosh, that seems like a messy explanation, but it's starting to make sense to me.
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So dog is considered wrong but puppy is correct ? Why? I don't think there's a different word for dog
Lee Know says that to his innerself when Seungmin is speaking English
It's the "Woof woof" language. If you're an ARMY you might've seen a ff of Yeontan where the whole ff is just about Woof woof woof woof... This puppy is probably speaking that.
the dog is freaking speaking in a difficult language why is dog not right
