"我们每年见王老师。"
Translation:We see Teacher Wang every year.
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Would it be okay to translate this as Mr. Wang since we wouldn't say "Teacher Wang" is English? It's unnatural.
It should be. 'Teacher' is not a title in English, so 'teacher so and so' is incorrect.
I'd suggest "We see Teacher Wang EACH year" as another alternative translation
I dunno. "Each"has a more singular connotation than "every" unless that's what this dumb exercise is saying.
Consistency would be very much appreciated. I changed from 'see' to 'meet' as taught in a orevious exercise andnow its wrong. From the piont of teaching this is a desaster since it confuses and frustrates the learner.
The Duolingo way is to provide practice problems, then allow you to learn further grammar and translations from experimenting and asking questions. Duolingo doesn't aim for consistency, they aim for immersion. The best way to learn is from multiple sources. If you want more consistency with problem answers, then you should probably look into other applications, but not this one. :)
The Duolingo way is to provide practice problems, then allow you to learn further grammar and translations from experimenting and asking questions. Duolingo doesn't aim for consistency, they aim for immersion. The best way to learn is from multiple sources. If you want more consistency with problem answers, then you should probably look into other applications, but not this one. :)
I would instead suggest that "meet" in this context be accepted to retain consistency, but "see" be suggested as the recommended translation, since it's a better representation of what the Chinese sentence translates to in English.
More of an English question.. does teacher also need to be capitalized in this sentence? Can it be lower case as well?
i said professor wong ... i dont know if it was the o in wong or the professor it didnt like
1798
Probably the o in wong because the pinyin for "王" is "wáng", with an a. Although it could also be that "professor" was used instead of "teacher".
"Mr. Wang" should also be acceptable as we do not refer to teachers as "Teacher name" in English.
I've been taking Chinese at school for the past 8 years and we always say Wang teacher. Also shouldn't teacher not have to be capitalized?
