"ما اسْمِك وَأَيْن بَيْتِك يا أُسْتاذة؟"
Translation:What is your name and where is your house, ma'am?
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Ma'am should really be one word, I'm not sure why it was broken up like that.
It's a bug with Duolingo. Report it to them and hopefully they'll fix it soon. Here's an example of a bug I've sent: https://imgur.com/user/CcfUk2019/posts
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Honestly, this student was surprised to see استاذة given the meaning of "ma(d)am." He is far more used to seeing سيدة used instead.
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But you can't call anyone "teacher" as if it were a vocative. However "professor" would be correct in this sentence. But it's also normal calling a professor ma'am.
I would suggest to translate "ustaadha" as "miss". "Ma'am" is not used in writing and is also very contextual, whereas "miss" is a perfectly acceptable and respectable way of addressing an unknown female just about everywhere.
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No, "miss" is only acceptable when addressing a young woman that is known to be or likely to be a bachelorette.
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I wonder how the tts compares to a real speech, in terms of pauses and connecting sounds of the words. When I check word by word, I can get it, but when it's the whole sentence, I struggle a lot to understand
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This is a very bizarre sentence. Why would someone ask someone's name(meeting them for the first time) and then ask where their house is in the same sentence?
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Taking the history of a patient perhaps? But the question should have been "Where do you live?" not "Where is your house?"
That's a kind of threatening question to ask a teacher! Is there a way to ask "where do you live?" in a more general sense of area, rather than specific address?
