"你想不想跟我们一起去看划龙舟比赛？"
Translation:Would you like to go together with us to watch the dragon boat competition?
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"Do you want to go with us to watch the dragon boat competition" should be accepted
"Would you like to join us to watch the dragon boat competition together" seems more appropriate
"Would you like to come with us and watch the dragon boat competition?" I reported the suggested answer because it's unnatural.
I believe, literally, the phase 去看划 should be just "go watch paddling/rowing". The person is inviting to see the paddling at the Dragon Boat Competition.
Then, why is that word not in the English sentence? In another sentence in this lesson somebody said that the formulation would be more natural in Chinese by just leaving out 划
The above person is incorrect. The 划 in 划龙舟 works exactly the same as 打 in 打篮球 or 踢 in 踢足球。It's just very common in chinese to include the verb before the activity.
If you wanted to say the sentence "My older brother plays basketball well" you can either say 我哥哥打篮球打得很好 OR just simply 我哥哥篮球打得很好。 In the same manner, if you wanted to say "My older brother rows the dragonboat well", you can say 我哥哥划龙舟划得很好 OR 我哥哥龙舟划得很好。Both are extremely common and neither is really better than the other.
However, to say "dragonboat competition" or "basketball game" it is actually more natural to just simply say 龙舟比赛 and 篮球比赛。
Such long sentences just should not be offered for translation. Way too many options!
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"Go together with us" seems redundant. I know the Chinese has both 跟 and 一起 in its structure, but I think either "would you like to go together" or "would you like to go with us" sounds much more natural.
I think I will get a nervous breakdown from all the "my answer should have been accepted". Boats (pl) should be accepted, because competition implies there is more than one.
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Not if we say 'dragon boat competition(s)'. When used attributively (i.e. before another noun) a noun is always in the singular form. We say 'passenger jet' even though there are many passengers, and 'doughnut shop' even though it has many doughnuts.
"Do you want to go to watch the dragon boat paddling competition with us?" is rejected. I think "to paddle" should be allowed to be made explicit in this exercise with the phrase "dragon boat paddling competition".
The aforementioned answer is accepted without "paddling", at least.
"Do you want to go together with us to see the Dragon Boat festival contest" is correct, but not accepted. Please fix. There are many alternative translations other than the "correct one." It is maddening to have to conform to some "iconic" translation, some of which are not correct English.
There are way too many ways to say this that aren't accepted but are perfectly acceptable in English. I have to screenshot the correct answer to refer to when this pops up in rotation bc I'm not going to memorize the exact perfect phrase which works
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I just corrected to the unnatural and ungrammatical "Do you want to and see the dragon boat competition with us?"!
Would it be wrong to include "rowing" in the English translation? I ask because the word is in the Chinese, and it specifically gives it as an option in the selection of English words to build the sentence. I know it's more of an extraneous word that isn't necessary, but is it wrong? I was thinking about reporting it as an alternate answer that should be accepted, but I figured I should find out if it could be a legitimate alternate answer first.
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I think 'like' is optional. "Would you go together with us ...................?" can make sense.
along with us rather than together with us would pribably be better
"Would you like to go together with us to go and see the Dragon Boat competition?" is what I wrote and marked wrong. I think it should be correct. :(
how would we say: "Do you want to go watch the dragon boat race with me?" in Chinese, and how is it different from what we have here? Please help...