"Can I tell you a story?"

[leojustmeme]

I think 我可以给你讲一个故事吗？ should be accepted.
Can i tell you a story (to listen)? 我可以给你讲一个故事（听）吗？
If English could omit the 听, why couldn't Chinese?

[varigby]

I agree, I have heard people say that. Please use the report button.

[PHYLLIXQIN]

Agree

[Semeltin]

As long as the Chinese sentence is acceptable. I agree with the first part. But I think this is not a good argument:
"If English could omit the 听, why couldn't Chinese?"

There are many cases were you can't omit something because it is just not acceptable/grammatical to omit it in a given language. You can already spot the difference in your English translation, because this doesn't seem like a normal sentence to me: "Can i tell you a story to listen?"

[hippietrail]

I guess when they're saying "why can't Chinsese" they must talking about how Duolingo have set the Chinese version, rather than talking about the rules of Chinese grammar?

[LabanJohns]

I think it's accepted now, i just entered it that way

[ArtBurnap]

Accepted, June 2018.

[citizenjack]

Why does this sentence need the "给你听“ at the end? Would "我可以讲你一个故事吗“ work? Im not sure why that part is necessary.

[KristinDekker]

I think the 可以 should be able to go at the end, i usually phrase my questions so that they end with 可以吗

[deactivated user]

I get your point, but you should be putting it after the subject more often than not

[Andrea22756989]

I also think that this translation should be accepted:
我可以给你讲一个故事吗?

Reporting it!

[Terence364703]

Reported 我给你讲一个故事，可以吗？ Hear this a lot here in Beijing.

[AyaneIto2]

Why isn't 我可以讲一个故事 enough?

[Henri67787]

所以这种软件学不出正宗的汉语，因为正宗的汉语都被判错了

[Xinmei20]

我可以告诉你一个故事吗?

[Rod37437]

"I can tell a do story give you listen?" (literal)

[ArtBurnap]

The word 'do' is not present. It looks like you mistook the first character of 故事 (story) for 做 (do), which has the person radical added on the left of the other character.

[Rod37437]

"I can tell a do story give you listen" (literal)

[julykix]

actually, 'tell' would come more natural translated as '告訴'. 告訴 is used when you directly converse with someone while 讲 is very general. "我可以告訴你一個故事嗎?" should also be an accepted solution.

[Laurann333]

I don't think you really 告诉 a 故事， you can 告诉 a 事情, but 讲故事 is definitely better than 告诉故事。