"You speak, and I listen."

Translation: Ty mluvíš a já poslouchám.

[Weltreisender]

Why would 'mluvíš a poslouchám' not be acceptable? Isn't the meaning clear from the differing conjugations?

[Nemesis_NaR]

Here, without the pronouns, the contrast dissapears and therefore they can't be omitted.

You can say though "Mluvíš a já poslouchám." But the "já" has to be there to express the contrast that you are doing something while I am doing something else.

[MarshallEu]

TBH, this answer doesn't help me understand at all. I need more explanation.

[Karina707621]

Why isn't "říkáš a ja poslouchám" accepted?

[VladaFu]

Říkat normally requires an object (the thing one is telling).

[grzebra]

I tried:
Mluviš, a poslouchám já

And was marked wrong - is the word order weird?

[VladaFu]

Quite so. If you stress "já" this way, you should also include and stress "ty".

[Jennifer993246]

The program gave me the wrong answer=

You used the wrong word.
povídáš a já poslouchám.

[VladaFu]

"povídáš a já poslouchám" is accepted

[malu.marohnic]

Can it be ty mluvíš a ja slyším

[AgnusOinas]

No.

• Slyším. - I hear. I can hear. (Croatian: Čujem.)
• Poslouchám. - I listen. (Croatian: Slušam.)

Of course both verbs are derived from "sluch", which means "(the sense of) hearing".