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"a new garage"
Translation:كَراج جَديد
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And if it let you hear the correct answer. If you can I have not figured it out.
I wish we could have the audio option when we get the wrong answer, so that we can both read and hear the correct answer :)
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Lawrence, I'm curious because other people have commented on not having sound. I do my lessons on a computer and at the top left of the discussion pages there is a blue speaker icon that I can click on to hear the correct answer. Do you do your lessons on a smartphone and not have the same set-up?
Hi I'm on Android, and as lot of questions have the speaker, but some don't. And once you've clicked wrong answer, and the right answer pops up at the bottom, there's no way of hearing that one
The word جَديد (new) is jadiid, /d͡ʒa.diːd/. It's sort of like how "jah-deed" would be pronounced in English.
And كَراج (garage) is karaaj, like the American pronunciation of "garage" but with a k.
THE WORD 'كراج' IS DIALECT! PLEASE STOP GIVING THIS WORD! THE ORIGINAL, GOOD, ARABIC WORDS ARE:مرأب، سريدة، معطف!!!
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But English speaking learners appreciate a word that sounds very like a word they already know, so in this case, dialect is good.
But we're trying to learn Arabic, not Arablish. The propee Arabic word ahould be used if one exists.
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All languages take words from other languages and make them part of their own language. Maybe you can do some research for us and tell us some English words that are of Arabic origin.
Is the adj. for "new" sometimes spelled joined (the dal and the yā joined) but sometimes the dal and the yā are not joined? I ask because in A. S. Tritton's Arabic (Teach Yourself Books, p. 31) the dal in jadiid is not joined with the yā.
Am I the only one that doesn't understand how I'm supposed to know what some of the words mean? In this lesson group I'm getting words I have to guess at.
Shouldn't it be "جَديد كَراج " instead of "كَراج جَديد" ? Since we write from right to left it sound more logical to me to say new garage instead of garage new? Or am I the one who is mistaken?
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The "Tips" before the lessons, which are not available on all apps, discuss grammar. In English, adjectives (new) come before the nouns they modify (garage), but in Arabic, adjectives come after the nouns.
Bug: If you tap a word and tap it again to remove it, it will leave a space at the beginning of the line, thus making Duo think there is an extra word at the beginning - for which you'll be marked wrong.
