"These fruits aren't very fresh."

Translation: 这些水果不太新鲜。

[MauroEzequ6]

Why no 了when using 太?

[Shelb850093]

Same question from me

[Angus37035]

You don't use 了with 太when it is negative

[pinicius_olipeix]

Do "这些水果不很新鲜" express the same meaning?

[kovotsky]

You cannot use 很 when using the negative.

[rajul285485]

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

[StephanusG1]

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.

[Iwilleatyouall]

There is another Duolingo course that teaches stroke order for all of the characters in this course.

[Anet1235]

Really? Which one? Thanks a lot :)

[ChemLoco]

It is unnecessary to add "太"

[Miriam442403]

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.

[EddieTorre13]

It really is :( got marked wrong for the grammatically correct sentence

[salihua]

这些水果不很鲜新。 Is actually a more accurate translation of the English.