"El niño quiere ser jugador de fútbol."
Translation:The boy wants to be a soccer player.
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why does this one accept 'soccer player' and 'football player' but not 'footballer'. Come on USA catch up with the terminology of the game the rest of the world calls football, you know the one where the players don't wear combat armour (armor?) and crash helmets.
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To accept "footballer" as a correct translation, the term in Spanish would have to be «futbolista».
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I'm from the US, and Heather does not speak for all of us. Or even most of us.
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I think people were asking for it to accept footballer or soccer player. You could try reporting it.
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In Spanish, they have "fútbol" (soccer) and "fútbol americano" (American football).
In the U.S., we have "soccer" and "football." "Footballer" is not a U.S. term. We say "soccer player."
Are you sure that "footballer" is used by the "rest of the world"?
Based on these dictionaries, it appears that "footballer" is a United Kingdom word. http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/footballer http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=footballer
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Once upon a time, people on both sides of the Atlantic spoke the same English, but both British English and American English have changed a bit since then. This course is taught from American English, but you can report words used in your dialect and Duolingo will add them as also correct.
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The word Soccer is derived form 'association football' Einstein. So even when you are saying soccer, you are saying Association Football.
What is your problem? You're incredibly rude. This is a language app, it's not perfect. News flash, it uses American English, because the highest percentage of students in this course are from the U.S. I'm so sick of people like you insulting our country. We don't run around insulting the UK, or other countries. But for you, I'll make an exception. I used to love visiting London. My mother's side of the family is English. All of whom have become U.S. in the last ten years. Why? Well, because it's now a slum. It's dirty, and riddled with crime. You let droves of criminals in, undocumented, and wonder why your country has been one of the most dangerous places in the world. Maybe worry about that instead of the difference between fútbol, and football. Which, by the way, we know the difference. We just don't care.
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You don't use "un" or "una" with an occupation unless you further describe it.
"El niño quiere ser jugador de fútbol" - He wants to be a soccer player.
"El niño quiere ser un jugador de fútbol talentoso" - He wants to be a talented soccer player.
"El niño quiere ser un jugador de fútbol que gane todos los partidos" - He wants to be a soccer player who wins all the games.
plus ser denotes "to be" form for a single person denothing "un" = a in itself is what i think though, i'm beginner not sure
I wrote, The boy wants to be football player Was wrong since i did not say soccer. Both are acceptable i thought & used interchangeably
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I think you were marked wrong because you wrote, "The boy wants to be football player". You should have written, "The boy wants to be a football player." In many languages, the indefinite article is never used before a profession. In that sentence, the indefinite article is obligatory in English.
I wonder if the word 'soccer' is even understood in any non-English-speaking countries. Rarely used in the UK these days.
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Yes it is used in some non-English speaking countries. On another one of these discussion pages, someone posted a wonderful map of where these are used and I was surprised. Here it is: https://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-12
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That is not true, Canada also says soccer since they also have Canadian Football and Australia also says soccer. The word “soccer” is short for “Associated Football, where they have “soccer players” and “rugger players” for Rugby, but now England says football for soccer also.
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Yes, but that is only the football played in the USA. There is also “fútbol australiano” and “fútbol canadiense” and they each have separate rules and games, but are more popular than the association football that they call soccer. The Canadian version even has a different ball and different size field from the American version. I don’t know much about the Australian version, but they are not “fútbol americano.” You know I tried looking up “tackle football”, but in English the association football or soccer also talks a lot about the slide tackle, so “tackle” is also not a very good differentiation. Isn’t it strange, how different countries use different words for different things?
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There are many forms of football of the non-soccer variety and they are not all called the same way. “Football” simply means a game played on foot. Now, how did each group decide that only one of these forms should be called “football” and the others need to be called something else.
America is not the only country that uses the word “soccer”. There are still more countries that use “fútbol” for this game. Here is a map of what to say where:
https://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-12
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I think thr more interesting artifact here is "..quiere ser jugador..." - why drop the "un"? Anyone?
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Association football not rugby football was called soccer not rugger.
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In English we must put the indefinite article "The boy wants to be a football player." or "a soccer player" or "a footballer".
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Nor should it be accepted. The term is "footballer" in the UK and "soccer player" in the US
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The career of any sportsman or woman is short. Many actors leave their profession after a few years. The career of a conductor can last for more than fifty years. It would be confusing to use "estar" for gymnasts and reality TV stars but "ser" for composers and hairdressers. Learning languages is hard enough. Please do not give the Spanish Academy ideas to make it harder.
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The idea that "estar" is for temporary things and "ser"for permanent ones is very misleading. "ser" is used for anything that identifies the person. "estar" is used for how you feel and where you are and there are more differences: https://www.thoughtco.com/verbs-meaning-to-be-ser-estar-3078314
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Ich spiele zum FC Bayern bei deutschland. Ich bin sehr glücklich mit alles.
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I wrote this sentence before like they taught me and they said it was wrong. the second time I wrote it like the above:,and they said I should write: The boy wants to be a footballer.This is not the first time I have written the correct sentence and they said I was wrong. What's going on?
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Both should be correct. If you have the multiple choice, you must choose all correct answers. If you have the listen to Spanish and write it down, you must write it down in Spanish. Otherwise report it.
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In American English a football player is playing a different sport that uses a gridiron, but try reporting it if that is what you use in your area.
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Well, I hope that is a typo “football player” is accepted as correct. Please show us the complete sentence that you gave if that was a typo.
It should work for you, as I tested it earlier, and it worked for me. Can you please put what you answered here? It would help me in assisting you.
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There is no conjugated verb in your sentence. "The boy wants to be a soccer player.
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Please can we have 'football Player as an option , it is more natural English'
That fact that you prefer one word over another does not make it "more natural English". For me as an American, "soccer player" is the natural translation. That doesn't make either wrong.
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Soccer is “Association football” in England, so they have soccer players and rugby has players called ruggers. Yet, in England, they are going back to the word “football.”
