"我觉得中文不难。"
Translation:I do not think Chinese is difficult.
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Honestly, I think it is easy. I've always had terrible problems with morphology in other languages. I don't have to worry about that here.
Agreed, the lack of verb conjugation makes me wish other languages were like this too.
The characters though ... I mostly stopped learning these to focus on what they're saying.
Yeah the characters need some serious effort to learn, but I've been able to make some good progress with a combination of Skritter and Anki. Highly recommended if you want to make reading (and possibly writing) part of your language learning goal.
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我觉得中文不难。I think saying "I think Chinese language is not difficult." is the same as their translation of "I do not think Chinese is difficult." The 不 is in front of the word for difficult, not in frount of the word for feeling, so I think my transation is the best, although both have the same meaning.
Agree with you. I think the most literal way to translate "I do not think Chinese is difficult." is "我不觉得中文难。"
... said I and started my first lesson on Duolingo.
Several month later
"I do not think Chinese is difficult" - oh my, who the hell is that fool who said this? :D
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Yes, but you're missing the nuance in English. In English, the phases "I think that..." and "I feel that..." are largely interchangeable - especially when spoken.
Agreed. I am Chinese American and it's TOTALLY normal for me to say to Chinese vendors in America, "Wu juede" as "I feel that" or "I think that"... Speaking of, I feel like whoever put this course together has this dumb-myopic view of what Chinese is, like they see Chinese only thru the lens of someone in Beijing and not someone from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore or even just south China. The more I do this course (mind you, I am fluent in Chinese), the more I hate how dumb these "English" translations are.
I feel that the organizers take the best approach to maximize learning efficiency for those approaching Chinese from other languages. They probably didn't have fluent speakers in mind, so it's not out of the ordinary for you to notice something like this.
I don't think so. I think it's an understatement thing, instead of saying something is easy, saying something is not hard. We might say it is easy instead of not hard, but I think it is actually intended to be not hard.
Not really, especially since there is an actual word for easy: 容易 . Just like in English, saying something "isn't hard" vs "is easy“ both have subtly different meanings.
I put I do think chinese is not difficult. Is duo right to say that this is wrong?
As far as I am concerned yes Chinese is not that difficult. You only need to know the characters and you are basically done.
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I think Chinese is quite straightforward compared to other languages. My problem is that I forget some of the characters if I haven't used them for a while. I also find that I recognise them in a sentence but struggle to think what they are if they are by themselves on the choice of four characters page.
Translation is wrong. The sentence should negate the adjective not the verb. 'I think Chinese isnt so difficult' should be correct
Yes, Chinese isn't difficult to learn,but when u writing hanzi........get well soon bro
Some may say that, true, inspired by a spirit of paradox, will to say paradoxal things. But here it's just wrong. As long as your mother language isn't related to Chinese (in which case it's still hard though), Chinese IS hard.
Yeah sure mhmm, checkpoint 1 and 2 is sure easy I bet the other checkpoints is going to be easy too and not taking HALF A MONTH TO COMPLETE.
