"它吃鱼，也吃饭。"
Translation:It eats fish and also rice.
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Accept "It eats fish and rice". 也 "also" is used more in Chinese in this context than in English, essentially boiling down to this simplified translation.
I agree, the use of also is forced in english. I would technically say "It eats both fish and rice."
One time people state that they are here to learn Chinese, not the intricacies of English; then the other time people want to get the idiomatic details of the English sentence discussed thoroughly. As for now, I would say: focus on the details of the Chinese grammar: that is the goal of this course. Unless, of course, the English translation would be blatantly wrong, grammatically. In that case it is worth reporting.
Many of us are here because it was not possible to learn using our mother tongue, so we need to understand better both how Chinese and English work to get through the cours
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Agree, I cannot see why 'and' is required in the answer. I wrote "it eats fish, also rice" and the error only underlined the missing 'and'! Odd!
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in english that wouldn't be correct grammar; you'd need a semicolon in place of the comma for that to work i think
With the audio, how are you supposed to know which thing it is referring to?
他，她， and 它 all have the same pronunciation. Since this is audio with no picture or anything, I have no idea what third person perspective is doing this.
I have the same problem! I just did the audio exercise and got it wrong because i used 他 instead of 它
Does this reporting thing even work? A month later it's still not corrected.
I'm getting annoyed by duolingo using 它(inanimate objects) instead of 牠 for animals.
I was taught by my high school teacher to use 它 for animals, she's from Tianjin. Maybe it's a dialect thing?
As an english speaker, I would not use 'and also' together. These two words mean the same thing in this context.
饭 also means: cooked rice, meal. So 饭 is used to say 'rice' in the context shown.
米饭 is rice. And both 米 and 饭 individually mean rice. Rice is part of almost every meal in China. 饭 means rice, but it means meal as well. In a sense, it's assumed that meals include rice.
If you really want to say the general word for food, that's 食 or 食物.
I agree. But I've noticed in a previous unit that 'chi fan' was eat rice not eat food (as I've always thought) so I went with rice for this one. Also 'It eats fish, and food too' wouldn't really make sense.
I am just learning and got it, because of the drop down words... but I just learned mifan on hello chinese, so I likely wouldn't have picked that translation, if I didn't have those drop down suggestions.
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In "type what you hear" 他, 她 and 它 should all be accepted, no? since they all sound exactly alike
I agree. Because, what would 'it' be? Humans (he or she) are omnivorous, most animals that might be meant with this sentence (the course so far has only cats and dogs) are not.
This was absolutely ridiculous. There was no way to tell they wanted 它 and not 他/她. I reported it, July 2020.
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for the listening exercise "他" and "她" should be accepted because there is no way to know which "ta" they are meaning from listening alone
“它吃鱼， 也吃饭”， literally the answer, should be accepted, punctuation should not matter...
This is confusing: "ye" means "also", "chi" means "eat" and "fan" means "rice". So why is the answer: "It eats fish, also eats rice" incorrect??
Because you're translating literally, not translating into proper English. "It eats fish, also eats rice" is not a correct English statement.
In the same way that you translate 我五点半吃饭 to "I eat at 5:30", and not the literal translation of "I 5:30 eat". Sometimes you need to reorder words and even add in new ones to correct the translation.
Because Luis wouldn't make money on your "translations" if they weren't correct English ;0)
Doulingo doesn't make money on people translating over and over again the same sentences in the courses.
Years ago, Duolingo had translation exercises that they did use to sell translation services, but that part was dropped long ago. I don't know why people still think it works like that, it wouldn't make sense with the current model.
Their business model might have changed slightly, but I doubt it's no longer based on translations, since translating sentences from different languages to English and back seems to be still at the core of all exercises. As well as hearing / speaking exercises which might easily be used for feeding some artificial neural networks in order to train them for text-to-speech or automated translations.
I don't know what is their current business model, but I know one thing: they have to make money on something, because hosting such a web application globally and maintaining databases with user scores & words "for free"wouldn't be possible otherwise. And keep in mind that if something is "for free", then most likely you are the product :q
If DuoLingo is selling our exercise translations, then their clients are not getting their money's worth.
I'm sure Duo is making money from advertising to us; I am using the free version on computer (not the phone app), and I see at least one advertisement (typically more than one) every session. If I search for something online, then the next time I open DuoLingo, I often get an ad for that very item I was searching for. A friend of mine tells me there are ads on the free mobile phone version as well.
Duo also makes money from their paid subscribers, the students who pay to use DuoLingo; supposedly, there are no advertisements on the paid version of the app.
DuoLingo is a very popular application; I'm guessing that the revenue from advertising and paid subscriptions is more than enough money to sustain the service.
I'm using the keyboard, typing pinyin and choosing the characters. It shouldn't mark it wrong if I choose the character for "she" instead of "it".
You're right, it shouldn't, but from different reasons: because the audio doesn't specify whether it's meant to be "he", "she" or "it". If it were a translation exercise, and if it would use "it", you would have to type 它 in pinyin anyway, so better learn how to do select from the options it gives you ;)
It says that the correct solution is "It eats fish and rice, too", but I would argue that the "too" is redundant (because the "and" already explains it). "It eats fish and rice" should be accepted, I think, but that's based on my knowledge of English, not Chinese. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I did report it.
i just want to mention that "ate" would not be acceptable because it is past tense. past tense would have "了“ somewhere
The character 它 (it) was used, not 他 (he, him, they). That is why they are being picky on the answer. In english it sounds odd, just to say 'it eats....'. I am guessing it would be a response to the question: what does your cat eat. However I would answer: 'my cat eats........'.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong...but I gather that in Chinese culture pets are more or less regarded as "it"s v. he or she. I live between Shanghai and Nanjing where it's more "developed", and from what I observed pets are treated less like family members than they are in Western culture. That's how I've rationalized it, at least.
But this is a LISTENING exercise, right? They don't use any character, there's only audio that sounds the same for all three, so all three should be accepted unless they provide the context.
It eats fish and rice should be accepted because the 也 is basically the and. And also is uneccessary.
the punctuation mark ,the comma, is not relevant and it's omission is not a mistake
"It eats fish as well as rice." was not accepted. Is there such a huge distinction?
"It eats fish, also rice" is not accepted? Because there is no "and" in the question
accept "it eats fish also rice" because in the given sentence, there's a comma separating two thoughts.
You all argue about the sentence and mistakes, but how about this awful diet? Well, I'm no pet owner or sth, but still, rice? Isn't that rather human food?
It eats fish and it eats rice is imho the 100% direct tanslation but it gets denied. Natives is sth wrong with that?
It eat fish and also eats rice same as the anwer but my answer is written the same byt mark wrong
This is garbage. Only literal translations count sometimes... then [He = and) is not one of the chinese characters but it marks the translation the wrong for not including it. If translating to chinese we would be given the word and...
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In the "Type what you hear" version, 他吃鱼，也吃饭。should be accepted, since there are no context clues to suggest that the sentence doesn't refer to a person.
❤❤❤ "it eats fish, also eats rice." is marked wrong!!!! that is literally what it says!!
The issue has been brought since 2 years ago, there is no need to force us to use "AND" in this case. If the admins has a confusing grammar issue with it, then it's better to not include this line in the exercise at all. There is no AND in the literal translation that's perfectly understandable in english "it eats fish, also rice". Why bother with questions that causes confusion? Everyone, please downvote the translation of this exercise.
so is this a rare example of english being more efficient then chinese, or is it just odd? I cant recall at the moment but i know we covered a character for "and" , and its not "Ye". this sticks out to me because in a previous lesson i recall getting it wrong for inserting "and" , as well not repeating the word like in this example "chi" ALSO....in google translator "chi" is sounded like "she" and says it's "verified" so which one is right?
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Am i the only one who doenst know why they say this this animal eats rice, i assume they were talking about cats
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When only the audio is given, it should accept 他、她、or 它. They all sound identical. Without context it is impossible to tell which is intended.
Why isn't "it eats fish, also rice" accepted? I have also tried "it eats fish, also eats rice" and isn't accepted as well
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"it eats fish, also eats rice" should be OK : "and" is not necessary, and 吃饭 has been translated from the begining of this course by "eat rice".
This sentence makes no gramatical sense. What is "it" or 它 ( ta) This sentence would only make sense if preceded by another sentence that makes it clear what it is - presumably a cat or animal as you do not call a person "it"
Why is they not acceptable? It's obviously a sentient thing if it can eat (and even plants are they in technicality)
yeah, what kind of a cat/dog eats rice? can't be healthy ^^ they could have introduced something more credible like chicken
The character 也 （also, too, as well) was used, so they expect 'also' or something implying the same meaning in the answer. All possible answers are not accepted, report it when you believe you are correct.
