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"Yo no practiqué deportes en la universidad."
Translation:I didn't play sports in college.
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Aren't you supposed to type the sentence in Spanish for this question?
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Prabinv, different people get different tasks for a specific sentence. This comment section here is for the Spanish source sentence, which means you can get this sentence as an Es-En translation, a listening task, speaking task, or a task to fill in the missing word.
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"I didn't play sports in the university." not accepted (Nov 2020). Flagged and suggested it be added to database of accepted translations.
'... in the university' marked as wrong. So, if you wanted to say '... in the university' what would you say? I'll report my answer as being acceptable
universidad has been university in every lesson up to now duo must have got out of bed on the wrong side today
Americans refer to university as college. In Canada university is more academic (research and theory) , where college is for business, trades, more hands on stuff, or more career focussed.
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"¿Cuál es la diferencia?"
In colloquial American English these terms are pretty interchangeable, but generally universities have a broader theme, usually offering many different fields of education. Colleges are either subject-specific sub-parts of a university, or university-like institutions with a narrower spectrum.
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How do you know whether it is "college" or "university"? Translation for "college" according to Google... Translations of college noun el colegio school, college, schoolhouse, institute, house
la escuela school, college, schoolhouse, institute
el colegio universitario college
i did not play sports in the university - given incorrect 12/15/2020
That's neither English, not Spanish, so I'm not sure what you mean.
did not and didn't mean the same. Duo used the word university as universidad before this, why not now?
That's not true. It's very common to say play sports in English. It may just be uncommon where you live, but that doesn't make it wrong.
What was wrong with what i said? (All colleges are not universities!)
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