"선생님께서 학생에게 말씀하십니다."

Translation: The teacher talks to the student.

[gabriellelo]

"선생님" is also used as a title, like Grandfather or Grandmother. It's not unusual for your students to call you "Teacher" even in English, instead of a name like "Mr. Noh."

[wintertriangles]

Yes, since it literally means "first-born"

[DonutEggRoll]

Yes it's from the Hanja is 先生. 先 means first, former, previous, etc. and 生 means life, living, lifetime; born, etc.

[ErnestineO]

What's the difference between "speak" and "talk"? I wrote "The teacher speaks to the students" and it was marked wrong.

[Rhamsesito]

I think is beacause you used "students" in plural. I wrote "The teacher speaks to the student" and didn't have a problem, maybe it got fixed

[jiraiya1601]

if honorifics are used here why is it 학생에게 and not 학생께? since 께 is the honorifics version of 에게? thanks in advance!

[ImTiredRightNow]

is speaking. why not? we need more answer choices. even google translate does that.

[CarolNg2]

What's the difference between "The teacher talks to a student" vs. "the student" here?

[AlwaysT1red]

Why is it not the student talking to the teacher?

[mrsbsocks]

'teacher spoke to the student' is this answer not acceptable?

[moira142592]

anyone who is linguist/teacher or is Korean native that can explain this? since 말씀하다 is already a verb in honorifics, shouldn't 말씀합시다 be accepted here (not to mention, should it not be "enough"?) does it really need to be 말씀하시다?

[NiciSarang]

Really, duolingo? What is really the difference between "speaks" and "talks", especially when, again, the one you suggested doesn't work?