"这是什么酒？真好喝！"
Translation:What kind of alcohol is this? It's very tasty!
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Can someone explain if there is a reason why the cup of tea is "good" and alcohol is "tasty"?
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Simply that this course is still in beta and doesn't include all possible correct answers for every question yet. Keep suggesting them please.
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I wrote "It tastes really good," and dL not only incorrectly marked it as wrong, but suggested "It had very tasty" instead (which is wrong). A double-whammy!
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Every language has funny words and expressions: "whammy" is one of them! A nice by-catch during this Chinese course.
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That's irrelevant to this question. One Duolingo question can have many correct answers.
Liquor would actually work in this scenario. I think it isn't to formal though.
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Of course the English "what type of alcohol is this?" should be accepted. Reported 21 October 2018.
Nobody ever calls alcoholic drinks "alcohol" in English, it's always booze, drink, grog, hooch, liquor, spirits, ... except in a chemical or medical context.
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Plenty of people call drinks alcohol. Especially if they want to know the alcohol itself, and not the name of a cocktail.
I'm usually very patient with Duolingo on this Chinese course, but what is accepted and not accepted in this section it ridiculous!
"What wine is this? It's really good." Is not accepted. 1) It's feels unnatural to ask "What alcohol is this" in English as if you have no clue—like if someone spiked the punch with Sambuca and Creme de Menthe. Reasonably, you'd have a guess as to whether it's 白酒 or 黄酒 or 葡萄酒 or 啤酒, etc., and tailor the question. 2) IME, I have not observed that anyone frequently refers to their alcoholic drinks as "tasty" or "delicious," rather than as "good," or "smooth," or "crisp," etc. It happens, but it feels like a separate category of beverages.
Wine is quite misleading. However, "What kind of alcohol is this?" sounds like asking about chemical composition, like ethanol...
It is a matter of superlatives. Very smart = brilliant; very beautiful = gorgeous; very hungry = starving; very tasty = delicious... It does not matter whether it is in the UK or in the US.
Delicious is more likely to be used with alcohol than "tasty" in my American usage, and should certainly be accepted here. :)
Shouldn't 酒 be translated as "drink" in this case? The sentence doesn't really make sense in English.
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In another example duo used 酒 as wine. But this time it only allowed for the translation as alcohol? So which is it?
Are there any instructions on how to use 真, 非常, or 很? The English prompt often says "very" or "really" and requires a specific translation into Chinese.
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Basically the same, but in to a different extent. Tai>hen Tai= super Feichang= very Zhen= really Hen= quite
The English in this is simply wrong/not idiomatic. It should be "(alcoholic) drink" and simply "good" instead of "tasty".
The English here is rubbish - nobody says "what alcohol is this" unless they're a chemist. "Wine", though incorrect, is how this is usually translated; spirits should work too.
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If they were drinking a cocktail and they asked someone to taste it and give their opinion 'What alcohol is this?' And for the purpose of this exercise they'd ask it that way.
'What drink is this? It's really good!' Should be accepted. It's common to call an alcoholic beverage a 'drink', in fact I think the translatin of 'liquor' is overly formal and weird for someone to say. I've never heard a waiter in a restaurant say 'Have a look at our liquor menu', they say 'Have a look at the drinks menu'.
I put "it tastes great" i think that is a valid english translation. 2/16/20
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I have to say, "It's very tasty"? I can't say just "Very tasty "? The implication is clear and seemingly consistent with the Chinese.
Is it the same character for liquor used to refer to pure alcohol such as the one used to treat wounds?
"What wine is this" wasn't accepted. Wine is a more common topic with the theme dining, that this section is about, than alcohol, that sounds more like chemistry vocabulary
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酒 just means alcohol. To specify which alcohol you have to to add a word before it. Like with beer, 啤酒。
At least that's what my Chinese teacher taught us. She said that if you say 'I want a glass of 酒', the waiter will ask 'which 酒?'.
It really tastes good" is totally valid. Taking hearts away for no reason makes me want to kill this app.
I worry about the people in charge of writing sentences for this program. Most of them appear to need an intervention of some kind
My fault, but they marked me wrong for one misspelled word, That's crazy.
How are they supposed to know what you meant? Do they have to include all possible misspellings for every word in every sentence? Remember that it is just a computer comparing your answer to a list of possible correct answers, not a person sitting there judging your answer.
"what's this alcohol? really good to drink" was marked wrong but I think should be allowed