"Keep going straight ahead."

Translation: 往前面走。

[cazort]

This was a particularly confusing exercise and I think its presentation was unnecessarily difficult and frustrating. The 往...走 construction had not been introduced yet, and I had not yet heard the these words even in isolation yet. Furthermore, the words/characters 往 and 走 appear nowhere in any of the hover-over hints, and the hover-over hints for "keep" are irrelevant.

Surely this could be improved by better hover-over hints? Also, it would be better to give us a sentence in Chinese to translate into English first, introducing these words, and then later give us this sentence to translate back.

To get through this lesson I actually had to make an external note to remember the words 往 and 走, so I wouldn't be floundering again.

Someone please fix this? Thank you.

[xXBad_WolfXx]

I second this notion, it's really confusing. I had no idea you could even use "往...走" that way.

[cazort]

And...four weeks have passed and it's still not fixed...12/19/17, reported again...is it even worth reporting this or is it just screaming into the void? It's like DuoLingo launched this course and then totally abandoned it.

[BaiShann]

The void is extant as of 2018 08

[BafouillCharabia]

But this is the duolingo way... You learn by guessing. All the time.
If we don't guess, we just get a wrong answer, and the next time we know :) :) :)
I agree this is not very comfortable, but at least effective: sure you have remembered this construction at once. Isn't it ?

Also, I think you began Duolingo Chinese in the beta version (right ?), I've met this phrase for the first time today, November 2018. Before the phrase, I met 往 in the flash cards, and 走 many time before. So maybe your message had been heard ???

[Sl801543]

Can someone tell me the pinyin for this please?

[cazort]

It's "Wǎng qiánmiàn zǒu". In general, you can get the Pinyin very easily by just copying and pasting it into Google Translate, which is easy if you use this on Web/Desktop rather than as a phone app...this way you can just open it in a separate browser tab, it works beautifully.

I wouldn't even bother trying to use this course on mobile...it's not really sufficient as a standalone, you really need those external resources to look stuff up from time to time. It makes a world of difference!

[IceAly]

If you are using chrome, I highly recommend using the Zhongwen Chinese popup dictionary addon. It lets you use your mouse to hover over a word, and it will show you the pinyin and English.

[roman2095]

Thanks for the great tip. A very useful extension that fixes my main reservations about this course regarding absence of pinyin and English translation.

[belstar128]

Seriously how am i supposed to know this you might was well just replace the hints with a sign that says google it.