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- "我不认识这里的街道。"
"我不认识这里的街道。"
Translation:I do not know my way around here.
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It should also recognise the English spelling 'I don't recognise the streets here' as well as the US spelling.
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The Chinese and English sentences are a little different here. I think we should not use "my way", but use "the way", " the streets"
It should be permissible to use "I do not recognize the street here.", not just "I do not recognize the streets here."
I think that is not accurate. Cause he refers to 这里, not to the street directly. So I assume that the speaker means the streets around there. But I am not that good in Chinese, so I might be wrong
It literally translates to "I'm bot familiar with the streets in this area," but we don't say that in English. We say, "I don't know my way around here"
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Seems like Duo has changed the translation without changing the tips. I had to assemble the only sentence that made grammatical sense, without understanding anything. That's probably not what the developers intended.
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知道: to know information, to be aware of/have knowledge about a person, place, or thing.
I 知道 the sky is blue. I 知道 a celebrity I've never met.
认识: To be familiar with through personal experience.
I 认识 a person I have met. I 认识 a Chinese character I studied. I 认识 this street because I've been here before.
They are different. As in Spanish "conocer" and "saber" or French "connaître" and "savoir".
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I just got thrown by the idea that knowing the way is expected to be the same as knowing the streets. The former is about a route, the latter about the streets themselves. Ho hum, another thing to commit to memory.
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For me, 'knowing the way' implies the way or directions to a specific place, whereas this sentence is about knowing one's way around, in other words, being familiar with the streets in an area.
