"我很喜欢吃上海菜。"
Translation:I like to eat Shanghai cuisine.
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I thought "很喜欢" / "hěn xǐhuān" meant 'like very much', but I got it wrong.
No, you actually got it right . . . . this Chinese Duolingo is only Beta, meaning . . . their English has not been vetted by enough people yet..... Sigh....
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You are absolutely correct, 很喜欢 should mean "very much like" or "like very much".
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"Correct solution: I like to eat Shanghai cuisine." Sounds a bit weird, doesn't it? You can't really say: "eat ... cuisine", can you?
Shouldn't it be shanghainese cuisine. We have Japanese cuisine or Portuguese cuisine. Not Japan cuisine or Portugal cuisine
Because it is a style of food frrom a city and not a country or culture, i think that's why?
My explanation is that Shanghai is both noun and adjective. Japan for example is a noun, and it's accompanying adjective is Japanese. Shanghai is simply one of the many exceptions in English grammar. Other examples: London cuisine, Viennese cuisine, New York cuisine, Maltese cuisine. My usage of English grammar is intuitive, so sorry if I missed a technicality here or there, but I think I am getting my point across.
Shanghai is also a verb. "He was Shanghaied and woke up on a boat to Singapore".
我很喜歡吃上海菜。
I myself would pronounce this sentence as "wǒ hén xǐhuān" rather than Duo's "wó hén xǐhuān." I want to get other natives' opinions.
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Yeah, maybe the TTS mispronounced 我 wǒ because of 很 hěn, per the rule “3rd tone + 3rd tone → 2nd tone + 3rd tone”. This example should be added to the lesson notes.
I'm surprised no one has answered this for you. 上海 literally means above the sea. As you know, Shanghai is a port city.
Ooh muh gawd. I translated this as i really like to eat seaweed haha
海菜 means seaweed, 上海 is above the sea. Seaweed floats on the sea....
很 means "very", so duolingo should have given the option to say "I like to eat Shanghai cuisine very much". 我喜欢上海菜 means I like to eat Shanghai cuisine.
