"La sala è diversa."
Translation:The hall is different.
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There have been three different sentences translating "la sala" as living room, dining room and hall. Are they all correct?
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.
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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.)
So, rightfully Duolingo is also accepting just “room“. (:?)
The room is different.
F.Formica, non posso ringraziarti abbastanza per il tuo aiuto. Leggo sempre quello che offri. Grazie mille.
The suggestion of diversa has 'different' and 'homosexual' my Italian girlfriend says it is not known as meaning 'homosexual'
"The living room is different. You have a new couch. Er, sofa. I mean davenport. Um, maybe I'll just wait in the hall."
I think i remember learning that 'stanza' meant room - how does that differ from sala?
Hall, livingroom, lounge, salon are all the same and depend on which english you speak - English or Anerican or South African
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”)
Thank you duolingo for using similar-looking vocabulary words il sale and la sala within the same lesson ... sentences apart.
Sale and sala are quite different and we ought be able to tell the difference by now.
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.
You certainly get a funny look if you ask for a dozen grapes and half a kilo of eggs ;-))
Do Italians really use 'diversa' for homosexual or gay? Seems pretty euphemistic. 'Be, mia figlia è... diversa'. Hmmm.
why would I ever use this phrase? and why is living room not acceptable
DL’s own translation of “salal” is “room”, not “hall” so they need to fix their computer!
