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- "Isn't that difficult?"
"Isn't that difficult?"
Translation:それは難しくないですか？
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It shouldn't be, but I typed 難しくないですか and it was marked wrong. I've reported it (11/28).
難しいですか？would be closer to 'Isn't it difficult'.
When this course uses specific pronouns (He, she, I, this, that) it expects direct translations. Otherwise, 'that' becomes 'the' and 'we' becomes an unknown individual, etc.
In spoken Japanese it might be excluded based on context, but with the assumption that the listener understands to what the speaker is referring.
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それは難しくないの？ is marked as wrong. Plain form should be perfectly fine as well ._. Reported.
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So, is "難しいですね?" not okay here because it would be more like "[that or it] is difficult, isn't it/right?"
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Your sentence is perfect, but which one is good, better or worse really depends on the context, which is never given in Duo.
I would say that generally, your exampme is not correct because it implies that you have also tried "that", thought "that" was hard and want to gave the other persons confirmation that "that" is indeed hard.
The ね always imply that you have experience doing it. Think of it as a "right" in "Isn't that hard, right?"
Got pinged on not having a ? mark... Japanese doesn't use the question mark in typical writing they use か。followed by that open circle...
You shouldn't have, duolingo doesn't care about them either, you must've made a mistake elsewhere in your sentence, which is why copy and pasting you sentence into your comment really helps with letting people help you with your problem.
