"I like eating noodles with chicken."
Translation:我喜欢吃鸡肉面条。
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Usually Duo demands a literal Translation, they should be consistent. Also, if this is an actual common Chinese dish, then they should use the actual English name for the dish rather than a bad translation. "Chicken Noodles" would be fine if a standard name is lacking. I vote to revise this English.
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In English there is a difference between "noodles with chicken" and "chicken noodles" so if the dish in Chinese is actually chicken noodles I think the English sentence should be chicken noodles.
Because the noodles are the main ingredient they are "modified", bot in a literal and grammatical sense, by the appositional words that precede it. Chicken noodle is a dish with a smaller serving of chicken on a bigger serving of noodles. We can imagine, though ridiculous, eating noodle chicken and having noodle either noodle stuffed into a chicken or thrown all over it.. lol
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It is correct as it is, because "面条和鸡肉" sounds like two different dishes or ingredients. Here you would like one dish, a combination of noodles and chicken. In the Chinese logic the distinctive part comes at the front, and the main part (that is the basis for many dishes e.g. rice, noodles etc.) follows.
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The question is: "I like eating noodles with chicken." I answered:"我喜欢吃面条鸡肉。" was rejected. As the corect answer: "我喜欢吃鸡肉面条。" What the/Are there any differences between 面条鸡肉 and 鸡肉面条?
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The Chinese sentence actually refers to a dish where chicken is placed on top of noodles.
Since Duolingo uses example sentences for both Chinese-to-English and English-to-Chinese problems, this sentence would probably work much better if it named a specific dish. Does the current sentence refer to American chicken-noodle soup, Italian pasta with chicken parm, or Shanghai noodles with chicken? For example, this might be a better example sentence:
我喜欢吃上海鸡肉面条。
"I like eating Shanghai noodles with chicken"
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'I like eating noodles with chicken", "I like eating chicken with noodles" both accepted 30Nov'21