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"我很喜欢吃上海菜。"
Translation:I really like to eat Shanghai cuisine.
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No, you actually got it right . . . . this Chinese Duolingo is only Beta, meaning . . . their English has not been vetted by enough people yet..... Sigh....
'like very much' sounds like something a child or a non-native speaker would say. 'really like' would be the best translation and 'like (thing) a lot' would be the second best.
"Correct solution: I like to eat Shanghai cuisine." Sounds a bit weird, doesn't it? You can't really say: "eat ... cuisine", can you?
the adjective for Shanghai is Shanghainese, so "Shanghainese food" would be the best translation
I fully agree with you and propose the translation: Food from Shanghai / Beijing / Hong Kong, as this sounds the most natural to me.
Sorry, no, you can't if your goal is to sound like someone who has a reasonable command of the English language.....
I think that's a bit harsh. I'm a native English speaker with a reasonable command of the English language, and the translation sounds acceptable to me. Granted, I don't think it's common to say that, and it could very well not be acceptable. However, I think given the context, you could have formulated your response a bit more diplomatically. I'm running this by other native speakers to see what they think. Cuisine is an abstraction of food after all, so you are implying that you are eating Shanghai food, which is perfectly fine.
Shouldn't it be shanghainese cuisine. We have Japanese cuisine or Portuguese cuisine. Not Japan cuisine or Portugal cuisine
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".
Because it is a style of food frrom a city and not a country or culture, i think that's why?
*Pekingese; furthermore there is Hongkongese for Hong Kong. None of these I ever heard of previously, for that matter.
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.
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.
The sentence should translate to i really like to eat shanghai 'cuisine' but not really cuisine, it sounds awkward
I really like to eat cuisine from Shanghai is the same as I really like to eat Shanghai cuisine
Seriously?!?!?! This lesson needs to be completely gone over!! 'I like to eat Shanghai food the most.' Should be accepted based on the lessons on Duolingo!
Absolutely not. "based on the lessons on Duolingo" ? "The most" has always be taught to be 最 up until now, which is not in this sentence
For the sake of proper English, please add different versions of "correct": one that sounds correct to Chinese natives speaking English, and another one (or two) that are correct to native English speakers. Thanks! I really don't like having to make someone "wrong" here, but there are ways of speaking in English that may (sort-of) pass muster on the written page, but would sound awfully awkward if you were to actually speak like that . . . My five cents-worth, as usual . . .
