"给我一块咖啡蛋糕，谢谢！"
Translation:Give me a piece of coffee cake, thank you!
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"Give me one piece of coffee cake, thank you" rejected for me, so I reported it.
Maybe not because Chinese people trasalate it differently than English in but i am mot dully sure
I think the bigger issue here is that Chinese don't add 谢谢 onto sentences like this one to be polite in the same way English speakers do. This sentence would be much more natural if it used 请 and omitted the 谢谢 at the end, at least for the Chinese sentence. As it is, the sentence comes off awkward in both languages.
I think they wanted to reinforce "谢谢" here and maybe the creator was imagining the cake being delivered between the 2 phases?
It's coffee cake - a type of cake, earen frequently with coffee, hence the name. NOT the liquid coffee.
I guess you don't have to say thank you but you have to say it here when translating it because it was part of the question.
I put "Give me a coffee cake piece, Thank you." I hope im not actually wrong but i think that should be acceptable right? or am I missing the meaning of a character in my answer
You have understood the meaning of the Chinese characters correctly but your English is not correct..
I'm curious about the politeness issue. Here in Britain it's perfectly normal to say thank you after asking for something (as in "thank you in advance"), but we would ALWAYS say "please" either beforehand, or after (if we weren't aying thank you). Omitting the please would always come across as impolite, and even saying "please give me..." is very awkward sounding, as we generally use the conditional to be polite ("Please may I have...", "I would like... please.")
Does anyone have any good resources for how to master politeness in China? Also regarding 你 vs 您
Give me ... vs please give me ... should both work ... it's understandable
Wait so coffee cake is just coffee + cake right? so when nouns act as adjective-type things (sorry I don't know terminology) to other nouns you don't need 的 or anything?
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No, at least in the Chinese sentence it is not. Otherwise 咖啡 would not have come between 一块and 蛋糕. The meaning can only be "coffee flavored cake".
给我一杯咖啡和一块蛋糕 Give me a cup of coffee and a piece of cake.
给我咖啡和蛋糕 Give me some coffee and cake.
Coffee flavored cake:
Any one of
咖啡口味蛋糕
咖啡味蛋糕
咖啡蛋糕
Wikipedia: "Coffee cake is cake flavored with or intended to be eaten with coffee. British coffee cake is a sponge flavoured with coffee.[1] They are generally round and consist of two layers separated by coffee flavoured butter icing, which also covers the top of the cake. Walnuts are a common addition to coffee cakes.[2] In the United States, coffee cake generally refers to a sweet cake intended to be eaten with coffee or tea (like tea cake)."
Is this an acceptable way to order something in mandarin or is it rude? i meam instead of prefacing with ma fa ni or qing. Like can I say "gei wo yi da bei zhenzhu nai cha, xiexie"
It's perfectly normal to speak like this in China, you don't even need a 谢谢。
The correct answer, “给我一块咖啡蛋糕谢谢” isn't being accepted. I'm using a chinese input keyboard. It didn't work with punctuation either.
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And if smb wants a cake, not a piece of cake... What counter should be used? Should it be 个?
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Why must it be "thank you" and not "please"? "Please" to me sounds a lot more normal (even though it's not the word-by-word translation). But surely by this part of the course they shouldn't test people on 请 vs 谢谢 anymore :/
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Unbelievable! I was docked a heart for using thanks instead of thank you when ni is not in the Mandarin!