"伦敦在英国。"
Translation:London is in the UK.
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I don't know if it is a good idea to teach all these very special characters like lun and dun so early in the course. I don't think you really ever need them (as a beginner) unless you want to say "London". So instead of learning two "useful" characters, we learn two characters that are only needed in a very special situation/context. I'm afraid that 90% of the learners will have forgotten the characters for lun and dun by tomorrow...
Let's put it this way, you only have one useful character to remember, so you will remember it better)
All beginner English courses include nationalities and the names of the corresponding countries. They are very useful indeed.
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Chinese knew UK first as England 英吉利 (in 1830s - 1840s; later came 英格蘭 also). Later they knew Britain 不列顛 and UK 聯合王國 (United - 聯合, Kingdom - 王國). However, 英國 is always understood as UK / Britain.
Why are you using traditional characters in a course that teaches simplified ones?
@wisevolt he wants to show us that we don't know like he does.. if he would like to be more didactic, at least he would include pinying for better understanding.
It's pretty annoying to be forced to use the "the" for the UK. Thanks duolingo. My answer is wrong because I don't speak proper English.
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"The UK" is the correct way to say it. Even in colloquial English, you would never just say "UK".
Well, yes, the UK and the US is right, but omitting "the" shouldn't be treated as a "wrong word" fail. It's a minor mistake because the course is chinese, and the learner did get the chinese part right.
During the first two years of my duolingo use i struggled very much with the the an and a. Somehow very slowly i learned where they are used. But! In finnish there is no articles and in chinese there are no articles, so now the struggle is on again
For anyone else struggling if the next word starts with vowel we use an: an egg, an orange, an igloo. If not it is a.
if you are talking about a city and country you would not use the. London England. Shanghai China. etc
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It's kind of funny that Duolingo is forcing me to speak proper English! #Shamingthenativespeaker
We were only given choices of "London is in New York" or "London is in Hong Kong" but the Chinese said "London is in the UK."
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As a Brit, there is a difference, although the terms are often used interchangeably. Britain refers to the island that England, Wales and Scotland share, whereas the UK refers to the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
That may be true in English, but earlier on, 英国 was being translated to "Britain" and now it's being translated to "the UK"
However it is still correct, although they are different (London is in Britain)
zhu means "lives" while zai means "in/within". They may even be used in the same sentence sometimes
伦敦在英国 it says England, which is not a synonim for UK., and the chinese is the form for England.
It seems to me like 英国 is a catch all for England, the UK, and Britain in Chinese, much like イギリス/Igirisu is in Japanese.
I typed in "London is in the United Kingdom" but it said that the answer was "London is in the UK". Can someone tell me how these two are different?!?!?
I meant "London is in United Kingdom" not "London is in the United Kingdom".
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Idk if this is a weird question, but how would this be different than London in the UK? Just context clues? Like if someone asked "which London do you mean?" how would you answer in Chinese
All the countries should be named as they are.There can be exception in some case,but in China every country is given another name Evev Newyork is known as Nuyuue.Why?
In every language there are plenty of countries that are said differently, not just Chinese. New York does not follow the rules of pinyin, you can't have rk as a final. Even if this wasn't true, Duolingo did not invent Chinese, Duolingo is teaching the basics of the language.
Well, NiuYue is obviously a translitteration (The best they could come up with the existing symbols). But you're right, previously translitteration was not very widely used so America itself has a funny name of MeiGuo
Ok, so far all the lessons, included this one, was using the UK as 英国. But out of nowhere it claims to me put Britain, cause UK was wrong. (I don't even know if me English is right, I'm just pissed of, bye)
英国 is not England? Could someone explain that to me? I'm really bad at geography (｡ŏ﹏ŏ)