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"¿Conociste a mucha gente en tu viaje?"
Translation:Did you meet a lot of people on your trip?
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As a native english english speaker i feel 'did you meet many people on your travels' should be accepted, but potentially thats me speaking in slight slang ?
I'm not sure if it's slang or not, but it's no more "slangy" than plenty of other accepted answers and it sounds very natural to me.
My thought is the two sentences in English have slightly different connotations, but as far as the Spanish to English translation, it seems you should be correct. Your version certainly rolls off the tongue more easily and would probably be more common.
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I'm pretty sure you can use the plural "travels" when still talking about just one journey.
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Is there a difference in meaning between "muchas personas" and "mucha gente"? Duolingo accepts both.
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They can often be used interchangeably however I read somewhere that 'gente', because it treats people as a group can imply they all share some implied quality or relationship that you wish to convey. 'Personas' on the other hand treats them as individuals.
"Did you meet many people on your trip" was not accepted. Bore off DL
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Duo's own definition of "mucha" is "a lot of" and "many" but marked wrong the use of "many" ! Oct. 7, 2019
"did you meet many people..." is at least as acceptable in English as "did you meet a lot of people..."
I feel duolingo overdoes "a lot." Although "a lot" is not incorrect, adults tend to use other words ("much", "many", "greatly," and so on) at least as often.
So conocer is no longer about being familiar with people? Now it means to meet people? what the ❤❤❤❤. You dont know people that you havent met yet.
I answered: Did you know many people on your trip - it was counted wrong... why?
And I answered: Did you know a lot of people on your trip-and was also marked wrong. I can see asking this question...a social club posts an activity/trip for all members and you're asking if , as a member of that club, did they knew anyone on that particular trip. Would I ask it differently then?
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Indeed. Or if you went somewhere you had been before and I wanted to find out if you (already) knew many of the people you saw.
Words can mean more than one thing depending on usage and context - just like in English. If it helps, you can think of meeting someone as becoming familiar with them.
Can you say in Spanish, " Yo conociste a mucha gente en mi viaje," in order to say, " I MET many people on my trip" ?
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Ocsga, casi es bueno. Tienes que usar "con" con "encontrarse" si quieres hablar de "meeting someone":
- ¿Tú te encontraste con mucha gente? - Did you meet (with) many people?
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I understand that conociste is the past tense form of conocer (to know or to meet), however, "met" is the past tense of the English "meet", or to be more precise, "to have met" is the (a?) past tense form that seems to me to be at least as "correct" as "did __ meet,"
I translated the question as, "Have you met a lot of people on your trip?" I do not understand why I did not receive credit.
(Please explain the difference between "did he meet, did you meet, did they meet," etc., and "has he met, have you met, have they met," etc.)
