Same! Let's get out of this level8 rut!

In "Animals," the sentence "Paka wangu anakunywa maziwa" is mismatched with the audio for "Paka wangu anakunywa maji."

Just encountered this one (as a type what you hear exercise, so, yeah, got that one wrong ;)

davidvdb, could you let us know what's most useful for you if we come across something already listed a while ago in this thread? Disabling the audio I would assume is pretty immediate? So it'd be worth repeating since maybe there was a glitch and it didn't actually get disabled? Or maybe it takes a while so try to take a look and see if it's been at least a week or two?

Please, keep reporting! I hope you recently started to get mails about approved alternative translations. It might take a while to fix everything, but I'll try not to give up :) Thanks for your help!

A few more:

Wiki - audio has something longer

Hatutaimba - audio has hatutaimba wimbo

Hawajachora picha - audio is something else

Pafu baya - audio is something else

Mama anatunza mtoto wake - audio is Mama anatunza watoto wake

And something else: On the background page for Emotions, https://www.duolingo.com/skill/sw/Emotions/tips-and-notes, it translates "Kuhuzunika" as "To bereave". I'm not a native English speaker, but that looks odd to me. Shouldn't it be more like "To grieve" or at least "To be bereaved"?

I also had one where the "correct" answer was incorrect English - I think it was "a gray socks". I reported it as "there's something wrong", but unfortunately the app doesn't leave more options (I've noticed that the web site has 3 or 4 different choices available when reporting a problem, but the app doesn't :().

Here's a slightly more complex one:

On some order-the-words questions, when I tap the first word, it'll be said out loud. This seems a little bit strange in itself, because it only happens with the first word. But on the question "Six weeks" there's an error: When I tap "wiki" the audio goes "wiki ya tatu". (And when I tap "wiki" in "A week is seven days" I get the same audio.)

A few more non-audio errors (if you'd rather I post it somewhere else, just say so :)).

In the "Conditional Tense" lesson there are several errors in the English sentences. That one and Prepositional Verbs could really do with cleanup...

If he read[s] you will write

If he turn[s] off the light you will sleep

If you come home you will take [a] bath

If you drink alcohol you will not dance [to] music

If they take [a] shower they will look good

If I study I will pass [the] examination If I cook I will eat = nikipika chakula nitakula; kama nikija nitapika chakula = if I come I will cook <- in both cases chakula should be removed, or food/meal added to the English sentence

More audio issues:

Paka yupo chini ya kiti - audio is something else

Bei yako ni sawasawa - audio is something else

Nikisoma nitafaulu mtihani - audio is nikisoma nitafaulu

waislamu wanasali msikitini - audio is something else

Fulana yangu - audio is something else

kuna meli kubwa - audio sounds like una meli kubwa (not sure if there is a hint of a very quiet k, but for learning purposes I think that would be unpractical...)

tunahitaji Diwani mzuri

tukitaka kwenda marekani tutahitaji viza

hakuandika kitabu - hukuandika kitabu

paka yupo chini ya kiti - something entirely different

chembechembe ya damu - chembechembe za damu

watalii wanahitaji mizigo yao - something else

And then a few that I'm not so sure what to think of:

protoni - I can't hear the i in the audio. I don't know if it's supposed to be silent, but it's really confusing in listening exercises...

ni vizuri kunywa maji salama - kunywa is not pronounced very clearly. I assume it represents realistic speech, but it's making listening exercises quite tricky - perhaps more than they need to be (I'm really not sure, so just wanted to bring it up)

walimu huimba - audio is just huimba

Krismasi tutaenda Serengeti - something else

And a few non-audio issues:

I wanted to report Usipopika ugali sitakula as an alternative correct answer to Msipopika ugali sitakula - but I can't, it just accepts the answer as a typo ;)

Cloth is torn expects Nguo imechanika. Everywhere else I only remember seeing kupasua used for this, and the dropdown hint for torn also only gives kimepasuka so there's an inconsistency somewhere...

Ninahitaji mchele - audio is Ninahitaji mche

Kila asubuhi Rashidi hukimbia - in the audio there's something more between kila and asubuhi

Msingalienda msingalipika - audio is msingalipika msingalikula

And non-audio: (sorry, don't have a better place to post them...)

For "You had gone" I wanted to suggest ulikuwa umekwenda as alternative, but it just gets accepted as a typo.

I believe https://www.duolingo.com/skill/sw/Immediate-Past/tips-and-notes should also mention -ja- being the negative form of -me- (as far as I can see that's the level where it's introduced, it's just not mentioned in the notes).

And PS. The Negative Conditional skill badly needs a general overhaul on the English...

One more: Sitafika na dada yangu kesho kutwa - the last word (kutwa) is missing in the audio.

And: hatutaimba - the audio is hatutaimba wimbo

@hannepanda: Thank you for your many reports regarding the sound bugs.

@davidvdb: Asanta sana kwa masahihisho yako. The improvements are noticeable and the sound really provides a better learning experience.
Just an update for the reported minor mismatch for "Mama anatunza mtoto wake": The audio still says "Mama anatunza watoto wake".

The audio for "Imbeni vizuri" seems to have a different word instead of "imbeni."

I got your first example on the iOS app and I had the type of listening exercise where you have to select words from the word bank.

• The audio for "Umeme wa maji" is (I guess) "sawa sawa."
• The audio for "Nyuso" is (I guess) "Hawayatembea."
• Not sure what the first word for the recording of "Maliza shule" is supposed to be (may have been a recording glitch)

I would like to thank you for all the help you give everyone! I see your comments quite often. (If you would like to help, don't hesitate to apply here!)

Asante sana kwa kazi yangu!

"Thank you very much for my work!"

This one still appears to be a problem.

I assume the contributors did what they could regarding it some time ago.

Has there been any further word from staff about getting the fixes to "take"?

Hi Steven!

I joined the team about a week ago, knowing the state of the course. In one week, I fixed over a thousand sentences (adjusting the hints and disabling wrong audio not included). Last week, the audio got added (by the Duo staff, not by me), but, as mentioned above, there are quite some issues. We all make mistakes, don't we :)

I made the post above because it's quite difficult for me to find the sentences with wrong audio, without checking every single one. The course is more than a year old, and in that time many people used the "Audio does not sound correct" button to report that there was no audio at all. There is no way for me to delete all those old audio reports and only have the new/useful ones.

tl;dr: Main focus: fixing the (sometimes very) ungrammatical English, adding as many correct translations as possible, fixing hints, disabling wrong audio

P.S. I have finals coming up next month, so my pace will probably slow down for a while, but that definitely doesn’t mean I’m gone! :)

I largely agree with this. Having the other errors fixed is more important to me than adding audio - especially when adding the audio has turned out to just add a whole slew of new errors to fix. Not at all meant as a criticism of David, I applaud any effort, but I think he got more than he bargained for, so I hope he'll stay on and also keep handling submitted reports too...

I think the English errors are getting more in the way in the higher levels - probably because the sentences get more complex, so in some cases it actually gets difficult to figure out what is meant. Also, I'm encountering more cases of correct answers not being accepted in the higher levels - probably because fewer people have done those levels, so there has been less feedback over time. In the lower levels it's a bit annoying, but doesn't really hinder progress. Section 4 (the one starting with Conditional Tense) is where it has really started to be getting in my way (though not all of section 4 is as bad as Conditional Tense and Prepositional Verbs which I mentioned above).

Last few days I have seen a lot of new accepted translations (yesterday I got about ten of them in an hour! :-) . I started reporting badly formulated and meaningless Swahili sentences as well. I know there are translations that are fairly literally and there for not very good English. For me this is acceptable, because it helps me to understand the structure of Kiswahili.

I think in a next step the content of the course also needs to be updated. A lot of words are not very useful for a beginner.

Definitely at some point, but you will probably have to wait for the next update.

Audio in the app (iOS) is working fine for me. Possibly it's only missing on Android?

Staff is aware of this and is working on the audio issues. (Apparently, the Klingon course has similar problems.)

"Ninasafiri na boti" sounds like "Ninasafiri kwa boti" https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/27223855

There is some question in the thread about how natural the "na" version is. Anybody know?