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All the answers should be accepted.
When am I traveling again?
When are you traveling again?
When are we traveling again?
When are we traveling again?
When are they traveling again?
For all we know, Miguel is a travel agent or the boss or the lieutenant in charge of the troops on maneuvers.
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Am i missing something here, surely it can only be Tú viajas the verb ending is for Tú ???
To me, it can be viaja if you aren't close enough to Miguel to use Tú.
It can be viajan if you see that Miguel is the 3rd party you are talking to about a group of people who want to travel again.
Besides, it could be viajamos because you ask Miguel about when you and Miguel are going to travel together again.
However, the "When am I traveling again?" doesn't make sense and shouldn't be accepted. Why would you expect someone else to know about your business?
When someone is funding for his/her travel, then only that someone destined to know about our/my travel schedule.
Yup. How are we supposed to know if the speaker is buddies with Miguel or not???
Here's my theory:
I was thinking the same, but then I realized the fact that if you're addressing someone formally, you often use their last name (like "Mr. Smith"). The fact that the speaker is using Miguel's first name would likely indicate that they are addressing Miguel informally.
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They assume because you know his name that you are already acquainted, I made the same mistake. Just because you know someones name it doesnt mean you know them well.
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I don't think knowing a person's name means you know them well. But addressing someone only by their first name (without any other title like "Don") indicates a familiarity that means they would use the "tú" form.
I would imagine that if you're on first name terms with someone, that you wouldn't need to speak formally, i. e. in the third person.
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Why not implying i will be travelling with him and asking for when? Viajamos....
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In fact, a lot of verb forms would work: "When are they traveling again, Michael?", "When are we traveling again, Michael?, etc. all make perfect sense.
Yes, exactly! The usage of the first name implies that the person asking knows Michael, but the asking person could ask about when they, we, I, you, (maybe not you formal) he, she, it .... will travel again. It all depends on the situation, and since we don't have any further information about that, we simply can't tell.
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Just because you call him by his first name does NOT indicate familiarity. It could be a teacher addressing a student. Or an older adult speaking to a young person.
Not accepting "viaja" in this sentence is the type of arbitrary word usage that really bothers me when I work on Duolingo.
This answer is really confusing and I agree with many of the comments below
Does anybody know why "otra vez" couldn't be traslated as "next time"?!
