"我会给你打电话。"
Translation:I will call you.
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Reported (21 Mar 2018) Still not accepted (13 Apr 2018)
I will give you a call is a more natural English expression. Pity that this course is so picky about forcing weird translations on unsuspecting learners.
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Learners should not be unsuspecting as the course is very clearly labelled as being in beta. Well sometimes it annoys me too even though I know it's in beta (-:
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As a native Chinese speaker, I can testify that nobody says it like this in Chinese. I'm getting increasingly annoyed with Duolingo's Chinese course.
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so why don't you tell us how natives say it?
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It was the first day that the beta was released. Instead of getting annoyed, report questions you do not like with better answers. By doing this, you will make the course better for non-native speakers like me! =)
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Well, in principle.
When I started the Ukrainian beta course a few years ago, the course writers were very responsive to complaints/suggestions/improvements; I got frequent notifications explaining either "yes, your suggestion has been added" or "no, the course is correct and you didn't understand it".
I haven't yet seen any evidence that the Chinese course has been updated to take account of anybody's suggestions :/
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I'm wondering if this is a Mandarin thing, as a Cantonese speaker I would say 我會打電話給你
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我会打电话给你。(I'll call you). Is this structure also true?
According to my friend's Chinese course, the structure is like that.
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Yes, both structures are acceptable, at least in Taiwan.
Example:
我想買東西給你 我想給你買東西。
The course here doesn't always have l the possibilities as acceptable, which i realized after learning Chinese at a language center. But your contribution here is noteworthy.
Interesting. I ran 'I will give you a call' through a translator and it added 的 (de) as the last character. I think it should be accepted either way; 'I will call you' or 'I will give you a call'.
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Sounds more like "I might give you a call" to me.
