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- "老师，请帮助我。"
"老师，请帮助我。"
Translation:Teacher, please help me.
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Qing is not purely 'please', its a polite request for someone to do the thing you are asking. So 'can you' or 'could you' help me should be a translation of the intent.
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In China, I have often heard 帮忙吗？(bang1 mang2 ma) as a simple way of asking for help, but I think that expression is less formal, maybe more like "a little help?" "lend a hand?" "do me a favor?" or "can you help me out?"
It's better to say "请帮帮我" in spoken Chinese. 帮助 is prefered in formal occasions and in written expressions.
I see there's some down votes here, so to clarify for passing readers: these is the traditional characters for the answer (which is in simplified characters). This post is useful to those who are learning Chinese out of an interest in areas that use traditional, though I suppose more context may have helped, haha~
Yea a common way and still polite way is (keyi bang) ....Qing is alttle more confusing of a concept to English speakers..zhu doesn't even need to follow bang ,can use ether. I usually here bang...( bang wo ) help me or (keyi bang wo ) could you help me sounds much more natural
The font size varies in many sentences and it is sometimes too small, it would be great if it was a bit bigger and of a constant size. Of course, it may be that duolingo is training us to recognize the Chinese characters in any font size
I answered with: "Teacher, I have a question." but it marked it wrong. should that have been correct?
I disagree, unless this is a quirk not present in British English. Replace 'may' with could, can, or will, and you're okay.
Using may sounds unnatural here, I have not heard it in reference to another person in this context. It is more to ask permission to do something yourself;
eg May I use the bathroom? You may.
or to express a possibility, in the same way as 'might';
They may not have arrived ye.
