"These fruits aren't very fresh."
Translation:这些水果不太新鲜。
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Why doesn't Duo give us writing practice? The stroke order of the characters should be given and there should be a notebook kind of thing to store the characters and other grammar stuff
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That would be a useful additional exercise (and writing the characters certainly helps you to remember them) but I don't think it should be part of the core course. Learning Chinese is hard enough as it is and many younger Chinese people aren't even very good at writing characters thanks to the magic of mobile phones. There are other programs available that focus more on that side of the language.
There is another Duolingo course that teaches stroke order for all of the characters in this course.
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It should not be accepted. 非常 means extremely. 非常 and the translation's "very" do not have identical meanings. You might say, "这些水果非常不新鲜" (moved the 不 after the 非常), which would more literally mean "These fruits are very not fresh" ("not fresh" being treated as one meaning, which I can't think of an English word for).
"Very" used in the English answer has a meaning of "quiet"; "These fruits are not quite fresh", whereas the Chinese 非常 means "extremely" with an intensifying sort of connotation.
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It is necessary. Without the 太 it would translate to the same sentence, but WITHOUT the very. Here, in context the connotation is more towards "really". It's saying that it's not too fresh, where as without the 太 it would simply right out say that it was not fresh, at all.
It really is :( got marked wrong for the grammatically correct sentence
I have never understood why 新鮮, where this second character is a combination of fish and goat, would represent fresh! When I want to think of something that smells fresh, I certainly don't think of fish or goats. :-)
