"我们都想看电视。"
Translation:We all want to watch TV.
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想 and 要 are very similar, but not always interchangeable. It is a tricky thing to learn, recommend https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/xiang3-yao4-xiang3yao4-difference/
Because in chinese xiang is for wanting to do something. For example wo xiang qu shang dian. Meaning you want to go Yao is more like a need for something like you need it. Wo yao qu .... I need to go
Hope that makes sense
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28th May 2019 For Chinese to English, I wrote "We all want to watch the TV". Why is that wrong?
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I don't think it should be wrong. Flag that as an acceptable answer. They seem to be good about allowing "television" versus "tv," but including the article "the" when you said "the tv" may have been what made it fail.
I'm only guessing but maybe it's the THE that is questioned. It makes it an articled object rather than the process. Like we are watching the television. We are looking at the radio. as opposed to we all want to watch television. Just suggesting that might be a reason.
We want to watch TV isnt avcepted? Isnt we already generalizing all individuals why am I wrong for not saying all?
The reason this translation is not correct is that the sentence includes 都 which means all.
We would like to watch TV = 我們想看電視
We all would like to watch TV = 我們都想看電視
Small, nuanced difference, but both languages are capable of expressing this difference so for a correct translation you need to include 'all'.
Yes, 看 does mean "to read", and also "to watch" and also "to look at", so depending on what thing is being looked at, you know what it means.
'TV' is all, 'TV show' is only a show. For example, you maybe are looking for a basketball game, or you are simply staring at TV XD
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I got this wrong too. "电视" means "television" whereas "电视节目" means a television show/program.
What is confusing is in another exercise in this module we are asked to translate "我的姐姐喜欢看美国电视" and the translation we are provided is "My older sister likes watching American TV shows." It seems like if we can infer that the sister actually likes American shows and not American Television sets, we should also be able to assume that this sentence is saying we want to watch television shows and not look at TVs.
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I think it is correct in translating the meaning. But I started to learn that adding "show" after TV marked it as wrong because it is not literally translating even though in usual English conversation, we say "TV show".
But i got one of the "insert the words in the right order" because i just saif T.V. and didnt input the show
I wrote we all want to watch télévision and it said that i was wrong and it should be we all want to watch tv, like what? Isn't tv and television the Same thing?
I typed the answer correctly but there was a type on Duolingo response. This should be fixed.
是 and 視 have exactly the same pronunciation, they are homophones. Chinese has LOTS of homophones.
It accepted my answer "We both want to watch telly." so no problems there. But then it said that "Wed both like to watch telly." was also correct. It looks to me like a small typing error; 'Wed' instead of 'We.'
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Good comments! Yes, 'dou = all ' and ' xiang ' is more of a suggestion, and ' yao ' is more of a fervent desire. Perhaps the confusing part is that the English translation includes ' want ', and the Chinese sentence uses, ' xiang '!