"When is it cold in Korea?"
Translation:한국은 언제 춥습니까?
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This makes sense to me but maybe it's just an English speaker's bias. We'd more naturally say 'When is it cold in Boston?' than 'When is Boston cold?'. But maybe Koreans think differently ... what is awkward in English could be preferred in Korean? Hopefully Duo has a lot of native Korean speakers priming the system with correct answers in the background. It would be helpful for Duo to display that data ... they tell us one alternative answer ... maybe an ordered list of answers with the most natural (to Koreans) on the top would help us speak more naturally?
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You have a typo: 습 not 슴.
it's not 한국에서 because it's not an action, right? so we are basically asking "when is Korea cold"
I think you have 에 and 에서 mixed up. 에서 is used when there is an action taking place, whereas 에 is used when there is something static happening.
에서 can also mean "from" and 에 can mean "to"
에 is a time/place particle that indicates where/when something is happening, whereas 은 is a topic particle (kind of hard to explain what a that is, but there are plenty of youtube videos on it.)
The phrases are kind of hard to see in the little box because they are cropped out. I am doing this from the PC, I do not know how to report this? Help.
차갑다 means cold to the touch rather than cold as in weather or body temperature. 춥다 is used for weather or a person feeling cold