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"I want to travel and relax a bit."
Translation:我想去旅游，轻松一下。
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Is it usual for there to be no word for "and" if something is doing multiple things?
Further to my previous reply, please also note that there is a special punctuation mark used in Chinese in a sentence like this. Duolingo has used a comma, but normally you would use a 、 which is called 頓號〔顿号〕dùnhào which Pleco defines as a “slight-pause mark used to set off items in a series.”
It seems like this sentence should be okay with 和 linking the clauses, but you wouldn't use 也. See also the accepted answer to this question https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/21391/whats-the-difference-between-也-yě-和-hé
But to answer the original question that you were responding to, it is pretty common to not use a conjunction in a situation like this.
I think you're right about the "mental." Hanping says
• light • gentle • relaxed • effortless • uncomplicated • to relax • to take things less seriously
I used 要，and it was accepted. I think they just put xiang as a default, for your first question.
When I google 轻松 this comes up as an adjective meaning 'relaxed'. Wouldn't 放松 (Fàng Sōng to relax) or some of the other suggestions in this thread be more natural?
I guess the difference is between the input and the output. 輕鬆一點 indicates the degree of your relaxation (output), 經鬆一下 indicates that you relaxed for a bit of time (input).
is 旅游 a noun only ? it is presented as a verb, but we need the verb 去 to use it ? Also, same question as before : why is 一点儿 not ok ?
I've studied Chinese for four years before turning to Memrise - the language doesn't really use "and" like we do to link clauses. It simply separates them with a comma instead
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Why is it required to say "我想去旅游" (I want to go travel?) instead of just “我想旅游” (I want to travel)?
Is that just Chinese idiomatic usage?
Sort of like idiomatic English "I went to go see a movie" -- the sentence comes out of my mouth quite naturally in daily life, but if you ask me to explain or defend its grammaticality, I cannot.
Because in this sentence, it is 'want to'. While 'qu' is just action, it cannot convey that meaning of 'want to'.
Because 想here has always been taught in these lessons as want. So naturally, travelling would need the verb 去。
You say it needs 去, but another sentence in this lesson doesn't use it: 因为我喜欢认识新朋友，所以我想旅游
The Dragon Lord sometimes demands it, but so seldom that I suspect interference from English.
