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"李老师今天不高兴。"
Translation:Teacher Li is not happy today.
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I first answered "professor Li" and was given a wrong answer. The answer given was "Miss Li." There is no context here for the teacher's gender. "Teacher li" (the answer now shown) is not intuitive English.
I agree. I think Mr. Li/ Miss Li/ Mrs. Li would be all OK, but we have a specific word for "professor": "教授"(jiàoshòu)
"Professor Li" worked in the previous exercise; there's no reason it shouldn't work here as well.
I disagree. Its not the correct translation, plus the translations should be as literal as possible to aid in learning the sentence structures.
I think Duoling just doesn't have all the possible translations as correct, and that sentence is sort of slang- like. Just write out the word "is" instead of combining it with Li.
I put teacher Li, it says I'm wrong and it should be mr li. I don't know why .
Duo accepts "teacher Li" now (and always has when I have used it in other exercises).
高兴 is an adjective, so you don't use 是 with it. You would use 很if it were a positive statement but as it is negative you just replace 很 with 不, so there is no actual verb in the statement because it is just implied.
Second time i put Mr Li and it said Teacher Li is an alternative correct answer
Did "Mr. Li" work? I never gave them genders, just used "Teacher..." and it always worked. I heard "Miss Li'' worked but "Professor Li" did not.
I put "teacher li" and it was accepted. Duo usually does not care about upper and lower case differences.
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I think there is a subtle differences between 高兴 and 开心. I read in another post (maybe where kaixin was introduced) that bugaoxing and bukaixin can be two different kind of unhappy.
Not sure which is which, but one could mean depressed and another angry. Can anyone clarify it, please?
I put "Ms. Li" but it listed the correct answer as "Mr. Li". I would imagine both would be acceptable considering there isn't enough context to figure out what the gender of the teacher is.
Definitely. Just report it and they will fix it. Although it takes a while because there are so many reports. I am suddenly getting emails that they now accept answer I suggested three years ago. But quite a bit of them! Must go in batches.
As in you tried "Teacher Li's not happy"? That should work. Report it and they will fix it. (Although it is more normal to say "Mr. Li" or "Ms. Li".)
You probably had some minor typo or something that you didn't notice and that Duoling didn't recognise.
I could barely hear 今天 pronounced; it sounded more like "tintian" than "jintian."
To an untrained ear (including myself) it does sound the same even if a native speaker were to say it to you face to face. What might help is that even though the consonants (the j in jin and t in tin) might sound similar, in Chinese they often say a slight h after the t's like in "tian" ["t(h)ian"]. So, even if "tin" were an actual word in Chinese, you'd know the difference because it would be pronounced "t(h)in" but "jin" is still "jin." Take jian1 间 and tian1 天, they'd sound pretty identical if not for the "h" in "tian"'s pronunciation.
In pinyin, q- is the aspirated counterpart of j- and t- is the aspirated counterpart of d-.
Following what you say, q- and t- sound the same?
I hear Chinese j- more like an English ch- in chocolate.
I'm not an expert, but the audio could also be off. There are some weird things in it and sometimes it sounds wrong, not only in Chinese.
I hate these exercises as I know exactly what it means, but how I write in English just makes me "wrong"
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I thought tien meant heaven. Or am i thinking of some otger language/dialect/tone?
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You're quite right. One of the meanings of "tian" or "天" is heaven. It also means "day". "今天“ or "jintian" means "today". "天天” means "every day".
I wrote "Professor Li is not happy today" but was marked incorrect. It should have been "Miss Li". How on earth do you get "Miss" out of that?
The word order is incorrect in English. In English, you can't put the word "today" after "is." You have to say either, "Today Teacher Li is not happy," or "Teacher Li is not happy today."
I answered, "Teacher Li's not happy today" and it marked it as incorrect; which ironically is in fact, correct.
Why wouldn't the following also work? "Today, Teacher Li's unhappy."
I answered Teacher Li not happy today. Shouldn't that be acceptable?
I put down teacher Li is not happy today and it said it was wrong
I answered today teacher li is not happy. But it was wrong. I think it is acceptable.
I think that Teacher is not happy should be accepted, as well as Teacher Li is not happy.
We do not usually put "the" if the person's name is there too. It feels like saying "the Charles".
I answered 'Ms. Li is not happy today.' and it said that the answer was wrong and said that 'Mr Li is not happy today.' I know that in Chinese there are no gender oriented jobs 服务员 Fu Wu Yuan, Meaning waiter or waitress.
Teacher Li is not happy today. My answer: Today, Li Teacher is not happy. Is there really enough difference between these answers for mine to be wrong?
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I’m answering this on an iOS device. Using the dictate function is really annoying, as “Teacher Li“ (你老师) is transcribed as “teacherly”. So I have to dictate “teacher Fred”, and then manually change “Fred” to “Li”.
I tried it with dictation and it entered 李老师. It's possible you didn't pronounce the tone in 李 correctly, try going lower in tone.
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In British English as spoken in Royal Navy circles “not pleased”, without any reason given for not being pleased, means the same as “not happy”. So you could say “How is the commander today?“ “He’s not pleased“. “About what?“ “Nothing in particular – he’s just not pleased“. But it’s an uncommon use in English I suggest.
is "today teacher li is not happy." not the same meaning as "teacher li is not happy today"?
Why is this still going on I got the same questions for all of these lessons 这是笨蛋。这些课是死着我。
Okay, it said 'wrong word' but i MISSED a word...... And plus they should teach us the order of the verbs and all that cause its annoying to not know
Why is "the teacher is not happy" in correct. In English, we do not address the person first like this
"the teacher" does not specify which teacher. In this sentence, it's specifically refering to "Teacher Li" while "the teacher" could be any teacher.
I wrote 'Teacher Li's not happy today'. Which seems correct to me, as the answer was 'Teacher Li is not happy today'?
I said Teacher Li's not happy today and it was marked wrong. The fact that i contracted 'is' does not change the sentence meaning though
Hey is there a way to change to traditional? Its a lot easier to read and understand that way.
I feel like saying Li Teacher should be fine... it doesnt correctly translate into english anyways because in english you'd say Ms. Li. And the blunt translation IS technically Li Teacher
Please fix this feature where users can restart what they're attempting to say. It's annoying I am unable to go back to correct the words I spoke inorrectly.
