"二〇一三年六月"
Translation:June, 2013
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I have had it mark me wrong in the past when I wrote 零. It only wants the circle, which I can't seem to get the Chinese handwriting input on my phone to do. I end up having to copy it and paste it in when writing.
If the exercise had given the English meaning it would have at least been possible to figure it out. I know it's possibly better to let us figure out the meaning through listening to the Chinese, but it would have helped to have pronounced the "ling" in the listening exercise. As it was, I think I translated it as June 213 - probably just as interesting a year! Though that would probably have had to have a "ling" at the beginning (0213)?
You can see it often on address plaques in China. I couldn't find an example of one with zeros but you can see how the lane (弄) number on this one is spelled out on the bottom of this sign: https://goo.gl/images/ZRgL19 If the lane number was something like 1020 it would say 一〇二〇弄. It's also commonly used to write out the date, such as on this video game: https://goo.gl/GG2v2P
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213 would be spoken as er bai shi san (two hundred ten three) - sorry for not writing proper pinyin.
The male audio is just worse in this course, poor cadence, missing sounds, weird pronunciations, in contrast to the usually very good female audio. In this case it's just plain missing the 0/零 sound. And judging by how old these complaints are, it doesn't appear they have the time, resources or inclination to fix any audio issues.
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As I can remember, it accepts "2017 December 21st" in another question. But why it doesn't accept "2013 June"?
Yeah. In dates and money stoof (stuff) they use 零. But the normal one, like in https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/〇, we use 〇.
零 is the formal, "proper", way of writing it. But informally esp. when you're n a hurry "O" or "0" are used. https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Written_Chinese/Numbers
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I agree. The system is broken.
Honestly, this type of thing made me just take a multi-month break from duolingo. I hate that the Chinese learning is so broken. Sadly, apparently nothing changed in the months I was gone.
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Yeah, but in the type what you hear, 零 is marked wrong in that sentence. It should be correct.
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Though the translation was my first guess, I didn't hear the sound of the 〇, so didn't include it in my answer
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There is no sound for the second character. I based my correct answer on a previous one (when I left it off) where it was corrected
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Still no audio for zero anywhere and this has been reported a long, long time ago. DuoLingo? Are you really the leader in online language courses?
2019年6月5日 is how to write 05Jun2019 in Chinese; I have heard that 2019年6月5号 is also correct, and that 2019年6月5天 would probably be understood as well. Also, if you prefer to use Chinese characters rather than so-called "Arabic" numerals, you may. In my answer, I substituted "5th June" for the "6th June" you asked for, just so it would be clear to readers which number goes where; "06Jun2019" would be written as 2019年6月6日, etc.
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I wrote 零 but that was rejected, saying I shoudl have written the circle instead. Im using this on my laptop and the circle doenst show up when I type ling.
They both mean "zero" but 〇 is used when writing years. https://www.duolingo.com/skill/zs/Time-1/tips
〇 is typically used instead of 零 when writing the year. Both are pronounced líng and both mean "zero" but the conventions around them are different. https://www.duolingo.com/skill/zs/Time-1/tips
〇 is typically used instead of 零 when writing the year. Both are pronounced líng and both mean "zero" but the conventions around them are different. https://www.duolingo.com/skill/zs/Time-1/tips
THERE IS NO "〇" plus, when I was practicing this with timed practice when I was reporting it, it did not pause. Yet another discussion about a Duolingo problem that EVERYONE agrees on. I totally agree with everyone too, Andvari4, KeZhiXin1987, JHlearns, Potato132462, and I definitely agree with JesperWarn. I did a children's (kindergarten level, supposedly) Chinese workbook the other day, yesterday, and it used 零 for dates. Duo can do better.