"La sala è diversa."

Translation: The hall is different.

[squaredomino]

There have been three different sentences translating "la sala" as living room, dining room and hall. Are they all correct?

[f.formica]

Sala is a room destined to collective activities, so it can be all of those; the dining room is commonly "sala da pranzo", while the living room is usually salotto or soggiorno, and a hall would be salone (unless used to mean the entrance area, which is an atrio). Also, a ballroom is a sala da ballo, a waiting room is a sala d'attesa and so on. When there is no need to distinguish, though, sala can be used to mean any of them.

[squaredomino]

I see, thank you for your help.

[Duomail]

So, rightfully Duolingo is also accepting just “room“. (:?)
The room is different.

[Nonna602151]

I agree; however, living room was a drop-down hint. I used it and it was considered incorrect. ??
(Last time i used "lounge" and it was fine.)

[Lng52-._]

"Salotto" can also be a "sitting room"

[cdemaughan]

I said living room and got it wrong. Thank you, f.formica for the clarification.

[Nonna602151]

Almondhoney: And "lounge," too!

[RonCousino]

I used living room and it was wrong.

[GustavoNeer]

Do did I. Reported

[Macossay]

Still wrong March 2018

[IrinaObushna]

Still wrong May 2018

[sinan_k]

Still wrong October 2018

[Antonio243141]

Still wrong in November

[VaheAvak]

"living room" accepted May 2019

[Giga_bites]

Different? Compared to what?

[Macossay]

"The living room is different. You have a new couch. Er, sofa. I mean davenport. Um, maybe I'll just wait in the hall."

[Hornstein]

Hall, livingroom, lounge, salon are all the same and depend on which english you speak - English or Anerican or South African

[alberialti]

In English a “hall” is an entrance room to a house or a large venue for group activities (eg. ”village hall”, a centre for various group activities in a village) or an administrative centre (“town hall”)

[CiarinSmith]

Do Italians really use 'diversa' for homosexual or gay? Seems pretty euphemistic. 'Be, mia figlia è... diversa'. Hmmm.

[LorenzoLM]

Aparrenly. See diverso

[grach017]

The suggestion of diversa has 'different' and 'homosexual' my Italian girlfriend says it is not known as meaning 'homosexual'

[Christina226821]

why would I ever use this phrase? and why is living room not acceptable

[Kels_R99]

I think i remember learning that 'stanza' meant room - how does that differ from sala?

[xyphax]

Thank you duolingo for using similar-looking vocabulary words il sale and la sala within the same lesson ... sentences apart.

[Lolologist]

Sale and sala are quite different and we ought be able to tell the difference by now.

[xyphax]

My point of course is to thank duo for including these two words in sentences within the same section. If you never mix words up, then great for you. I often will mix up new words like moglie and meglio and find it helpful to focus on them together.

[alberialti]

You certainly get a funny look if you ask for a dozen grapes and half a kilo of eggs ;-))

[MrSunshine251]

How is it that "la sala" means both "the lounge" and "the hall"?

[pablosch61]

Why is "salon" not accepted?

[gridmaker]

hall is a weird term for living room

[zaki393512746654]

Whaat

[Noa562432]

"The hall" was not suggested in the hints, and it's the right answer

[oso]

Fail. The living room is different. Not good.

[alberialti]

DL’s own translation of “salal” is “room”, not “hall” so they need to fix their computer!

[Robert866589]

La stanza vs. Sala?

[Stephan881810]

I wrote exactly what was asked but it was not accepted. Why?

[Roan866446]

sala, cf French salle, is originally a borrowing from Germanic, cf. German (der) Saal, Old English sael.