"现在十二点。"
Translation:It is 12 o'clock now.
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How is "Right now it is 12 o'clock." not an acceptable answer? Is that not another way to say "It is 12 o'clock now?" 'Cause in the end, the sentence just means "It's 12." which is understandable as is by nearly anyone and everyone.
Me too. I read and understood every character except the first one. When I need a hint I float the mouse over a problem character and it shows me a clue. It says on the pop up "right now" so I used it and it was wrong.
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There might be a better construction in Chinese that "right now" (as opposed to just "now") translates to.
"now" isn't even necessary. We assume the time you speak of is the time right now in English, unless stated otherwise.
Couple things:
Now it is 12? Incorrect. Now it is 12:00? Correct. Seems like splitting hairs.
I understand marking me wrong for noon, as that would be 午, right?
The system told me that I had a typo when I answered "It is 12 o'clock" and told me the better answer is "It is 12 o clock" when there isn't even a choice for "clock". There is only a choice for "'clock". Why is this?
I don't understand why duolingo continues to separate o and 'clock if it always creates a bug in the system that says there is a typo. It has been this way for a long time and since 'clock isn't able to be used on its own (otherwise the options would be o' and clock), they should just put it as one word working around the bug entirely.
It is 12 o'clock now. This is what I put in so why does it say 'Typo' ???????
So, are you guys reporting when an answer that should be accepted isnt, or when there are issues? This is one of the smaller duolingo courses, so it's important to report when there are issues so that they can improve the course. Also, how's the response rate when you report issues?
I doubt that there is any response from DL. I don't think it is actively maintained.
I put a space between o' and clock, and it was counted wrong, pretty harsh hahaha
Why is "It is noon now" not accepted? I would like to spend more time learning Chinese and less time trying to guess which answer Duolingo will accept.
That's what I put, and it marked it correct, but also told me I had typos.
Watch out: I just got another answer wrong for translating 现在 (with now). And I got this one wrong, too, for omitting it (now)!
Lol. The Chinese people interpreting the proper and common useage of the English with very minimum sentences and words. As you and I and all other people who speak English (first language mostly) are learning Chinese with minimum proper Chinese sentences and useage we can give the "teachers" many more other sentence organizations that eould also be correct. However thede other English sentences are not in the computer to monitor them as correct sentences...yet that is. Just write the "My sentence should also be correct.". This will ebentually be read by a Chinese person read it and add it to the correction lists. Not much other actions will quickly make better English to help the student get proper answers more easier and faster and make the students more positive learning Chinese. Dui bu dui?
You have made an assumption that responses from students here are read by Chinese people who will modify DL to accept native English. This is an entirely unwarranted assumption, from what I can see.
The quality of this section is clearly rushed compared to alot of the others
"You have a typo: 'It is now 12 o clock.'" .. Nope, it is YOU who has the typo!
"点" is typically meant to represent the dots between the hours and minutes, and "半" literally means "half". "点" is always used when mentioning the minute as well as the hour, or just the time in general, and "半" is just meant as "half-past"/"[hour]:30".
The word bank did not provide "noon". My answer was "It is 12 o'clock now" and was marked incorrect, while the "correct" answer was apparently supposed to be "It is noon."
Hey, Duolingo! How should I answer:" It is noon. " If the damned word " noon" does not exist among the selectable words at all? !!!!!! Anyway the "It is 12 o'clock now." sentence is much more correct, but it was not accepted, although, all necessary words were given to build up this sentence.
Because that would put an emphasis on the "now" and that's not what would happen in most of the situations.
Can "It's 12:00 now." Can be accepted? Sometimes also, when I write house, it says wrong and it says home.
My answer should be accepted because When I wrote 1 o'clock, it was wrong and now i.wrote the words 12 (twelve) its still wrong. Fix it
It gave me word tiles to form the sentence and it really said "yOu hAvE a tYpO" -_-
It is now 12 o clock, and I was told I had typos. How for word that are preselected. I didn't type anything
What is the difference between It is 12 o'clock now and it is now 12 o'clock? I am sick of stupid stuff like this!
If this was a one-time occurrence, I wouldn't rage. It happens every day, and sometimes when I put the exact words they have used before.
the word o'clock should be written in one piece we can not separate the o from it
It is now 12 o'clock. That's how I say it in English. DL thinks my English is wrong? Hah.
They flagged their own grammar as a typo...ie "o'clock" is a typo...sheesh
What typo is there in my answer considering those are the only characters given?
My answer: "Now is 12 o'clock", but the answer wanted was "Now it's 12 o'clock" >_<
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Literally I have the correct answer but 2 words are different from the "correct answer". What the heck is going on, Duolingo?!!??
It's annoying that the English translation separates O and 'Clock into two separate parts. This is treated as a single word in English, what is gained by separating it into two words. This is not testing my understanding of Chinese but tripping me up in English (my native language) because it simply marks you as wrong if you don't notice or forget to click on the O AND the 'Clock. Obviously I should pay more attention, but still.
I've tried several times to say: "shi èr", but it has never acceptabled from you. Although I've modified more times its pronunciation, it always results getting wrong. I feel a little be annoyed but however, I thank you the same every day to improve our poor Chinese, and my English too. (A 69 year-old Italian teacher who still like learning foreign languages) 哈哈
In Chinese, somebody says for this: put your trousers off and fart. (I could feel sorry for saying that... but it's not my idiom)
"Get you trousers off and fart" it's a Chinese idiom to emphasize something poor or irrilevant.
