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"Ten minutes to seven o'clock."
Translation:七点差十分。
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It is missing. you really cant miss it missing its missing sound. (Is that too much)?
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I don’t think the team look at these discussion pages – I know they review reports, as occasionally I get a nice email saying that something I suggested as correct is now accepted. So, report this error. Oh, sometimes a poor Internet connection means some bits of audio don’t work. However, in this case it seems to be consistent, so it’s likely an error.
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First you say both 差十分七点 and 七点差十分 are correct, but then you only accept one of those :D
It should be accepted, in my opinion. However, though it's not a hard and fast rule, 分钟 (fēnzhōng) seems to be more commonly used to express duration of time, whereas 分 (fēn) is used without 种 (zhōng) to tell the time.
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This happens sometimes because of a poor Internet connection. But there are some exercises, of which this is perhaps one, where the sound is missing from one or two characters. Occasionally a character has the wrong pronunciation, for example 识, which has two pronunciations: the male voice uses the incorrect one for the context in which we have landed, the female voice uses the correct one
