"我今天不想工作。"
Translation:I don't want to work today.
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I thought 想 was closer to "would like", that to "want". It wouldn't accept "I would not like to work today."
工作 can be translated as "work" or "job" when used as a noun, or "to work" when used as a verb
上班 can be translated as a verb only (AFAIK) and is "to go to work" or "to start work"
So you could use both of them in the sentence (I don't want to go to the office vs. I don't want to work (even from home)), but the translation the Owl wants is the 工作 = work one. Good luck!
"I don't want to go to work today" should also be an accepted answer
I'm not sure I agree; "工作" by itself doesn't imply going anywhere (e.g. the speaker could work from home). I think the Chinese sentence would need to have 去 (or, as others point out, use instead 上班).
There should be an option to report "My answer should be accepted" for all the types of questions, for people who type in their answers instead of using word bank.
"I don't feel like working today" should be a correct answer. "想" means something you desire, so "不想" is more about "don't want" as in "I don't wanna..." or "I don't feel like..." .
There is no real difference between saying Today I don't want to work. And I don't want to work today. It really becomes silly and counter productive to teaching to knock back this as an answer just because it isn't programmed to say. However, having said that, am loving Duolingo so don't want to be too critical. It's a great site and learning service
The first one is "work" as in "I get paid for this" and the second is "work out" as in "i pay to get sweaty in the gym" (-:
