"Nosotros trabajamos en una escuela."
Translation:We work at a school.
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Yes.. What is wrong with 'we work in a school'? In English this sounds better than 'at a school'.
i also used "in" rather and "at" and reported it. It's correct and should be accepted.
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I actually do work "in" a school, the only time I would use "at" would be in a setting where someone wanted to know specifically which school; as in "I work at Tyler Elementary." We would also "in" for content area or grade. "I work in the Music Department" or I work in 4th grade,
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"in" usually specifies a place as opposed to admin. Many teachers use IN. "at" is used, but I think the other is used more
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My Chilean friends tell me that "en" is translated more commonly as "in" in this context.
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The exercise is about translating the idea in Spanish to a grammatically correct sentence in English. "In a school" and "at a school" both fit that bill.
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Two sentences later I had "Ellos quieren trabajar en una universidad". I translated it to "They want to work in a university" and it was marked correct. So it would seem "in a school" would be correct also.
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Agreed - "in a school" is more natural in English in most cases. Perhaps "at a school" if one's job isn't normally done there. For example, if I repair computers, and today "I am working at a school" it would imply that's not where I really work, or that my job isn't tied to the school normally.
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I think in should be accepted, at the school in this instance could mean outside, which is obviously different than in- well.
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AT is mostly used when students are talking and they drop 'a' or 'the'. We work at school today.
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One could be doing short-term contract work in a school. Reported 1 July 2018.
Does anyone else hear "en la escuela" rather than "en una escuela"? Even in the slowed version I hear "en la escuela"?
More thumbs up for in a school. Sometimes DL can be childish about marking us wrong. They should know this stuff!!!
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Tell me why is the correct pronunciation of "en una" not sound like this in the audio. I always get it wrong the first time. I hear and translate 'in school" and not " in a school".