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"李老师是中国人。"
Translation:Teacher Li is Chinese.
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The course likely just wants to clarify that it is a teacher, and not just any person, whom might be addressed as Miss
In China pupils call their teachers by the teachers surname + 老师 (Teacher). This translation is just a little bit more literal than common used. In my Chinese classes we called our teacher Hàn laoshi, too
I said Mr. Li is Chinese. Should this count? I was also thinking of saying Professor Li, because English speakers wouldn't say "Teacher Li"
President Obama, Senator Warren, Professor Tarsky, Doctor House, Commissioner Tark, General Eisenhower, Nurse Tucker, Officer Johnsons. You think it sounds weird because you've never heard of it before, but it's not unenglish by any means. And i suppose Master Wu and Sifu Lao used to be weird too, but a modern English speaking person wouldn't bat an eye at those two.
Right, those are good examples. But, I can assure you I have never called a teacher "Teacher Smith."
No English-speaking country uses "teacher" as a title. Chinese don't understand this because "teacher" is a title in Chinese. I think the course contributors naturally assumed that it must be true in every other country.
Now you know the Chinese call Mr. Lee "Teacher Lee" if he is a teacher.
Cool story, maybe this cloze will be a valid English cloze along with those listed clozes some day but right now it isn't.
It doesn't matter whether you find it logical or not; a language is more than its symbols arranged in syntactically senisble order.
There is a set of titles recognized by English speakers and that is not one of them. If native Chinese speakers actually say this in English then they're speaking a pidgin dialect.
This is just how you address a teacher in China. We don't address them by their gender.
Teacher Li is not really used in the anglosphere... Maybe Professor Li but not teacher.
You can't be "a Chinese" and you should be careful with that because, although it sounds like ungrammatical nonsense, it resembles other offensive phrases (e.g. you wouldn't want to say "a black")
Nobody in their sane english mind would say Teacher Li!!!!! Professor Li would be more appropriate
We would be more likely to say Mr. Li if he were an ordinary teacher rather than a professor.
Is 中国人 an adjective or a noun? Shouldn't the translation be "teacher Li is a chinese person"?
That should also be correct. Try reporting it if you capitalized “Teacher” and "Chinese".
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Glitch, bug or something, my sound is right but system just count for the first word
Can someone explain why: "Li Teacher is Chinese" is not accepted as correct answer?
