"تَشَرَّفْنا يا مايْكَل."
Translation:It's a pleasure to meet you, Michael.
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Why doesn't "You have honoured us, Micheal" work?
That is the literal translation, so it should at least work, if not be the answer itself.
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I actually don't agree with that, it really matters how you word the translation. I think alijsh's comment at the top is the closest to the literal translation. You could say it means 'please to meet you' 'nice to meet you' or 'it's an honor to meet you', but "You have honoured us, Micheal" seems... too much?? It's like you're hailing him or something,"You have honored us with your presence"... or something?? تَشَرَّفْنا is just 'pleasure to meet you'. Maybe it sounds really formal or polite, but it could be used anywhere with anyone.
Actually the literal translation is "We are honoured" or "You have honoured us", not 'meet'. But yes it doesn't sound right in English, as you said. So "pleasure to meet you" would be the English greeting close to it. I'm here to find out why "It's MY pleasure to meet you" wasn't accepted instead of "It's A pleasure to meet you", while it's not even the literal translation, and the Arabic word has نا (us/our/we) in it.
Because you are using an English language, and English people don't know what do you mean by this literal translation.
Note that "naa" hints "we -> us". It literally means something like "you gave us the privilege/honor of meeting you"
How can I say, that " I am pleased to meet..", not "we"? Or is it a traditional form for any situation?
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It's a traditional form that could be used anytime, but if you wanted to change it from 'we' to 'I' it'd be "Tasharaftu". I'm not sure, but I think just saying 'tasharaft' can make sense too but it'd be less formal than 'tasharaftu' or 'tasharafnaa'.
This is because in Arabic some times the individual would use a plural speech when he's talking about himself (very rare). Example from Quran: We creat you - God is talking about himself using We not I (Although he is one). So تشرفنا is a traditional way to say we had an honor (for meeting/knowing you).
Actually, The word تَشَرَّفنا means "we ARE honored". If you want to say "YOU gave us the honor" that would be شَرَّفتنا
On the exercise has not been read by a human, the words how are totally differents and are mistakes. Please change the sounds to read by a human.
Honestly duo is terrible in general for listening stuff. Playaling has some really good stuff for listening in Arabic. Also if you are ok using to cartoons for listening practice then there is loads of Spacetoons (famous Arabic children's channel) stuff on arabic
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Yesss! Spacetoon!!! I miss watching those shows, they are very good for Arabic practice because they speak MSA in every show so that no matter what dialect you speak, you can understand it, doesn’t matter what country you’re from. I remember learning/practicing MSA by watching TV, and a lot of it was from Spacetoon since I was a kid (and anime lol) Anyways, I highly recommend it to anyone, of any age
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اضن ان "بلقائك" ليست ضرورية. "تشرفنا يا مايكل" تكن It was a pleasure Michael. و "تشرفنا بلقاءك يا مايكل" تكون It was a pleasure to meet you Michael. الفرق هو بلقاءك" الي يكن" to meet you I think it’s fine either way as long as they got the point across that it’s been a pleasure, though I agree the sentence would be more complete/formal if they added بلقاءك
When it comes to names, if one is not familiar with English equivalents, close enough names should be accepted. Maykel was not accepted. I tried to transliterate.
It's n'est pas nécessaire ?... il semble que d'autres phrases proposent simplement pleasure to meet you