"我和我的妹妹每天玩乒乓球。"
Translation:My little sister and I play table tennis every day.
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Accepted now. 4/4/18 I wrote "I play ping pong with my younger sister everyday"
It should actually be "every day" (which is an adverbial phrase describing when something is done). The single word "everyday" is an adjective meaning means "ordinary".
12/2020 they are not giving us the option of ping pong presently! Is there a British- English revolution?
In earlier levels in the course you get marked wrong for writing "little sister" because they insist on "younger sister". It does take "younger sister" here.
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The Chinese sentence seems awfully incorrect! You don't say: 玩乒乓球 in Chinese. You say: 打乒乓球. The provided Chinese sentence, once again, seems to be a poor direct translation from English. Please, can a native speaker of Chinese comment on this?
I wonder if they meant playing a table tennis video game. Otherwise it seems incorrect to use 玩 instad of 打.
This is why we need a clarification sentence along with the original sentence and the translation. I will keep saying this in every comment until they add that VERY needed feature.
It would it be great if the exercises were something like this:
我和我的妹妹每天打乒乓球。
Translation: My sister and I play tennis every day.
Literally: Me and my younger sister every day hit ping pong ball.
我和我的妹妹每天玩乒乓球。
Translation: My sister and I play tennis every day.
Literally: Me and my younger sister every day play (video game) ping pong ball.
The translation would be clean, and still the sentence would be clarified by the (somewhat) literal translation, or call it "clarification". It's not that much more work for contributors.
I know we currently have the option to hover over each individual word and a hint is displayed, but usually those are not specific to the sentence in the exercise and sometimes they do not apply to the specific sentence at all. It would be better if we could have a holistic explanatory sentence, specific to the exercise.
Yeah really. I am a learner who had already learned chinese at school, I always learned like: 打籃球(to play basketball), 打乒乓球(to play table tennis), 打排球(to play volleyball), 踢足球(to play soccer), etc.
"Me and my little sister play ping pong every day" should be correct too.
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Or not. Your English teacher would beat your ass if you said "me and my sister" instead of "my sister and I".
Yeah that's right, "me" is an object whereas "I" is a subject, so it is required to be "I".
Also I'm not sure if this is a grammar rule, but "I" should normally go on the end. [I and my sister] = no, [my sister and I] = yes I'm quite curious as to why Chinese does it the other way around...
Technically yes but everybody says it anyway, which begs the question as to whether it's really "wrong". In order to use "I" correctly here, you have to say "my sister and I," which is then not a literal translation from the Chinese...
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Can we appreciate for a moment the simple majesty of 乒乓 eliciting the image and onomatapoiea of the sport?
"I play table tennis with my little sister everyday" means the same thing
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Or not. Your English teacher would beat your ass if you wrote "everyday" instead of "every day".
I wrote: my younger sister and I play table tennis everyday. Younger sister should be correct too!
No, you probably made a typo: I guess you meant 打 instead of 大.
"...每天打乒乓球" should be fine, but I haven't tried if it is accepted.