"我的弟弟是小学六年级的学生。"
Translation:My younger brother is a sixth-grade student in elementary school.
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Apparently some versions of the translation of this sentence accept it and some don't.
agreed. I don't understand - especially when paying for the Plus Version - why this has not been corrected. This & MANY other translation discrepancies that continue to be reported. - 15.05.2020
"Sixth-grade student in elementary school" is something only an American would come up with. Could you add more flexibility in describing the grade? Eg. Primary six student
To add, most american elementary schools only go to fifth grade, so the cultural translation isnt really compatible.
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In the US, public elementary school students usually spend the entire day in one classroom with one teacher. Historically, most public elementary schools taught kindergarten through 6th grade using the one teacher and one classroom format.
In a place like New York City, overcrowding was the main reason they started pushing 6th grade classes into middle school buildings and moving 9th graders into high school. At times when high school dropout rates were high, you had empty classrooms in high school buildings and not enough classrooms in elementary school buildings.
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Yes! I find these ones really difficult. Even when I know what the Chinese means I have to try and figure out what an American would say, which is a pain. I usually end up copying and pasting the answer :(
There are so many ways of describing school systems and where one is in them that it is just easier to use the word bank version of questions like this and get on with the rest of the lesson rather than try to wrangle Duo to recognise the terminology used by users of all the different school systems around the world. If you use the word bank version you know what answer Duo is looking for as there is only one possible answer.
Good point, though the word bank wasn't available to me. (It always is when translating to Chinese, but not necessarily when translating to English. Testing out of level 3 for this unit, I'm not getting it at all for Chinese-to-English questions.)
In any event, I'll add "grade 6" to the others suggestions here. Not currently accepted. Reported.
Edit, 2022-01-09: I've received a message saying that "My little brother is a grade 6 student in elementary school" is now accepted.
"in elementary school" is not necessary. It's implied. You should add "my little brother is in sixth grade" and "my little brother is a sixth grader"
Hehe, totally agree! If he's in the sixth grade then he's clearly not at university! :-D
We say "year six" not "sixth grade", and "primary" not "primative" or "elementary".
Duolinguo told me "... sixth grade student in primary school" was wrong and that it should have been "primative school"... I think an edit is needed guys. Reported 15/12/2017
Yeah, same for me. Are you kidding me duo? Still happening 27-3-2018. Flagged.
In English, "sixth grade student in elementary school" is redundant. Should matching the Chinese phrasing be required?
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Not necessarily. Different English speaking countries divide up grades in different ways and change from time to time over the years. But I do agree any way any native English speaker would naturally say it should be regarded as correct.
Do any English speaking countries have a sixth grade that's not in elementary school? Like a sixth grade of high school or something?
I put in "6th year" student. This is commonly said in the UK/Ireland and means the same as grade.
I said "is a year six student in primary school" and the correction was " is a 6th-grade student in primative school" Primative!
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"My younger brother is a 6th grade student in elementary school" should probably also be accepted
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I said "my little brother is a 6th grader in elementary school." But it does not work. But is it a correct translation?
Honestly, marked wrong for not putting a hyphen in between sixth and grade.
How ridiculous.
Sometimes this course makes me want to tear my hair out.
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This answer is ridiculously wrong from a UK perspective. Perfectly acceptable alternative translations are not accepted. I was marked wrong for putting 'at elementary school' rather than 'in elementary school' - or was it the other way round. Either is perfectly acceptable in English. Primary school, which is the correct UK usage, is given as a possible translation in the hints but is not accepted, only elementary school is allowed which is American usage. Sixth grade is not a UK term either - it's year six, or we would say 'is in year six'. Looking at all the comments over many years this is clearly an unsatisfactory question and should be changed. Or you should allow variations.
I feel like all this translation section is testing on my English than Chinese!
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Dear Duolingo, I want to learn Chinese, not your horrible sub-standard version of English!
In Canada people say and write Grade Six or or Grade 6, rather than Sixth Grade. I've also seen it referred to as Primary Six.
Five months later, no longer in Beta mode, and yet they still don't accept "year six" as a translation.
"My younger brother is a student in the sixth grade of primary school" should also be accepted.
"My younger brother is a 6th grade student in elementary school" marked wrong Aug 22, 2020. The only thing different is 6th-grade and "sixth-grade"??
Thats nasty boi! You dont have to say elementary school! Its pointless If you are in China, you are in elementary school in 6th grade!
Actually I taught in a middle school in Beijing and the 6th grade students were the first years.
Anyone else here who thinks it should be 'at elementary school'? 'In elementary school' kinda rips my ears.
"In elementary . . ." is quite common, at least in the middle of Canada. One option that would be common here would be "My younger brother is in elementary grade six." with "school" understood, or even "My little brother is in grade six", with "little' for "younger" and "elementary" and "school" both understood. And of course in the English-speaking world the relative age of a sibling is less an immediate matter of concern, so more common still would, I think, be "My brother is in grade six."
You're right, the at/in is probably a regional thing.
About the sibling issue I have also been thinking, interesting that there's no word for just brother/sister without specifying relative age.
The order of this makes it very long-winded. If you wanted to say all that more concisely, it could be "My younger/little brother is an elementary Grade 6 student".
"My younger brother is an elementary school student in 6th grade..."
Wrong, wrong, you're always wrong with Duo.
"sixth grade student in elementary school" and "elementary school student in sixth grade" should be interchangeable.
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This terminology is too country specific. I am from the UK, and I have no idea of what is being referred to here. There must be ways of redeveloping this particular exercise with more universal vocabulary.
What's frustrating is that in one sentence it may be accepted in the next sentence it won't be.
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"My younger brother is a sixth-grade student at elementary school" not accepted 12th February 2020.
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'elementary' school is the same as 'primary' school in english and 'primary should be accepted. and I agree that 'sixth-grade' is an Americanism, Grade 6 is the same meaning.
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In Canada we would say 'My younger brother is in grade six/ (the) sixth grade.' Sixth grade always implies primary school so it's redundant to say primary/elementary. I belive in the UK this would be 'My younger brother is in sixth form', but I don't know how long primary school typically continues in the UK. The current English answer is too country-specific and also redundant and wordy, but from the Chinese perspective I think I understand why they've written it this way. Chinese students typically speak of being in 'first grade of primary school' and 'first grade of middle school' (the sixth year of state education, I think) and 'first grade of high school' (i.e. what in Canada would be grade 9). It's not a good translation into English ('first year' would be much better) but that's what most people here say.
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Should accept 'sixth-year' as well as sixth-grade. Should accept 'at' school as well as 'in' school
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I am being marked wrong because. I wrote 6th grade instead of sixth-grade. Its hard to understand how the prorammers can make this sort of judgment, especially since talk to text insists on writing 6th not sixth-
came here to request that "sixth grader" be accepted, and learned how many different ways there are to say this phrase in English
My younger brother is a 6th grade elementary student
Does anyone else day elementary student? (Primary/secondary/6th form student in my native UK?)
My younger brother is a 6th grade student in elementary school - not accepted 26-5-2020
I might have a little cry
Wow! So it's not accepting little brother. Duolingo has fallen off, i cant wait to finish this course and be done with it.
"My younger brother is a 6th grade student in elementary school": Using 6th instead of sixth in an otherwise identical sentence was rejected.
my younger brother is a sixth grade student in primary school ''' why cannot use primary school ?
also how redundant is "sixth grade student in elementary school" come on now
i'm just copy-pasting this one at this point. this sentence might be the most god-awful example of duolingo's pedantry i've even seen.
my younger brother is a 6th grade elementary school student should also be accepted.
Younger brother=little brother? Elementary school=primary school? Whats wrong?
THis is another instance where Duo arbitrarily selects one English word order as correct, though neither it nor its alternatives are literally exactly the same as the Chinese. 'My younger brother is a student in sixth grade in elementary school' is 'wrong'
"my little brother is a 6th grade student in elementary school" please, someone tell me what's wrong with this sentence, because it is correctly translated and carries the same meaning. smh duolingo
My answer "My little brother is a sixth grade student in elementary school." was not accepted because apparently 我的弟弟is translated as "my little brother" instead of "my younger brother." Can 哥哥 be translated only into older brother? It should also mean big brother, elder brother, no?
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"My younger brother is a sixth-grader in elementary school." was marked as incorrect because I did not use the word "student". I am wondering if that is actually an issue or DUOLINGO being "funny with me"...
It is keep saying that it is a wrong answer, even though I got the right answer.
"My little brother is a sixth grade student in elementary school" Is it wrong because I left out the hyphen, or because I said 'little brother' instead of 'younger brother'?
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Oh my god i got this one wrong 4 times in a row. Lol i kept forgetting one word over and over (elementary school vs elementary) or something silly like that.
"My little brother is a sixth-grade student of the primary school." – rejected!
The need to learn the terminology and mechanics of some specific (apparently US) community to get these questions right is pointless, tedious, frustrating, and contrary to the goal of language teaching. Some other approach is required. On the whole, Duolingo has not fallen prey to the trap of assuming that each Chinese character has some word that is an exact equivalent in English, but bizarrely, in the cases of food and education systems—the very places where it is most obvious in everyone's experience that translation by lexical substitution could not conceivably work—this terrible idea somehow raises its head.
Once we have said "sixth grade" there's no need to specify that it's elementary school so we wouldn't say that. We would be more likely to say "My younger brother is in the sixth grade." and leave it at that. Even better: "My younger brother is in grade six."