"My older brother is a student."

Translation: 我的哥哥是学生。

[Andrew-Lin]

我的哥哥是學生。

[TobyBartels]

Is that the same thing in traditional characters?

[RuciGluci]

嗯对

[Chris91331]

Aren't you supossed to leave the de away if its your family country or home? Like，我哥 我国 我家

[circularsquare]

You're allowed to, either way is correct and accepted.

[deactivated user]

Nope, Duo doesnt accept the answers without "de"

[Laura871169]

I don't understand the difference between older brother and brother or older sister and sister.

[tolunayo]

For us westerners the emphasis on older/younger made me think if there is any generic brother/sister or brothers/sisters in Chinese. I found the following page:

https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/22079/how-are-ambiguous-brother-and-sister-typically-translated-into-chinese

Quoting from the summary post on that page:

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Can be used to refer single / multiple siblings:

older brother(s) = 哥哥
younger brother(s) = 弟弟
older sister(s) = 姐姐
younger sister(s) = 妹妹

Seldom used to refer to a single sibling:

brothers = 兄弟
sisters = 姐妹
brothers & sisters = 兄弟姐妹

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It looks like Chinese family is very complicated:

http://blog.tutorming.com/mandarin-chinese-learning-tips/family-tree-relatives-in-chinese

[GesaFlif]

they accept brother, but really it means older or younger

[MooN434]

In chinese, korean and japanese language, there are different terms for older/younger brother/sister

[YvonneL8]

Or it could be。我的哥哥是个学生.

[KaiTengChi]

It should translate to 我的哥哥是一位學生, a student should be translated to 一位學生.

[deactivated user]

我希望Duolingo將來會使用該句子。

[cleolin]

How does this sentence indicate that the brother is older? I read it as "My brother is a student".

[tolunayo]

There is not exactly a generic brother in Chinese. It is either older brother or younger brother. They have different words for each. See my post above:

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/25259625?comment_id=34196507

[JohnJohn950610]

Is it mistake?

[deactivated user]

那不是一個錯句子，可是我不使用它。

[Dafydd393634]

What is wrong with that?

[motorpolygot]

You should take some risk and try something different also: 我的哥哥是一个学生。