"几月几号?"
Translation:What date is it?
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I thought the same - this doesn't indicate "today" so it could plausibly be about the date of an event you're being invited to or something like that.
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It's not a common phrase to ask "what date is it" in English. It rejected "what day is it" and "what day amd month".
I think Duolingo helps you more in translation than in actually learning.
I mean, for learning purposes you could say "what month, what day (is it)?" as long as you understand the meaning of it.
Know how you would say the same thing in English - that's translation, which may be irrelevant for those who just want to be able to communicate.
Now keep learning, I just wanted to say that, and remember that's merely a thought, not a fact :v
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Quite so, and if you don't supplement Duolingo with other tools you will sound like an English speaker who is calquing all their phrases :')
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In the beginning of that very same lesson Duo provides an alternative answer 'which month, what day' but rate that exact phrase wrong in here
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This is not a good question. This sentence would not be used out of context. Either give it context or remove it.
Yes. All the confusion in this discussion area is because the fixed phrase in Chinese is 几月几号? while in English it's “what's the date today?”, but these are not literally equivalent. Duolingo doesn't seem to have a strategy for distinguishing “what you would normally say” from “what exactly does this mean”.
Do not ever trust Google Translate! It does not understand language, it just (well… not really, but this is the right nontechnical way to think about it) uses statistical alignments between texts that humans translated previously and cribs mindlessly from that. This means that for language pairs that do not express things in the same way, it will be wrong consistently. English/Mandarin is an especially bad pair, and this is a typical example. Sometimes it just makes gibberish, though, since it has no clue that figures of speech even exist, and Chinese is fond of them.
It's a great frustration when you work there. Management is all, “machine translation is a solved problem” and it bloody isn't.
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The'so-called "correct" translation is incomplete because it gives only the date. To be complete and correct, the translation should be " What date and month is today?"
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Day is often used in place of date, but it's technically not correct as day and date can have different meanings in English