"Pourquoi le prof distribue des livres aux élèves ?"

Translation: Why is the teacher handing out books to the students?

[Axel591520]

I got that sentence in a "Type what you hear" exercise. The male voice clearly said "Pourquoi le professeur distribue des livres aux élèves ?" both in the normal and the slow version. My answer wasn't accepted, though, and DL told me the correct solution was "Pourquoi le prof distribue des livres aux élèves ?". I reported it.

If you click on the speaker symbol next to the proposed solution here in the discussion you'll hear the female voice also say "professeur" instead of "prof".

[Rif0]

Why not "le professeur" ?

[ShubhamSurf]

"prof" is the short version of "professeur". Both are equally acceptable.

[madmd1961]

The audio distinctly states 'professeur' and we are supposed to type WHAT WE HEAR! Because I typed what I heard, my answer was marked wrong. This is unacceptable.

[DonnaWallis]

Duo please fix this stupid error - again. If the speaker says le professeur why would we write le prof?!

[--Roody--]

The audio now says prof and that's accepted as typed.

[Geoff_Campbell]

Really bad quality control in these new modules. Only "prof" accepted when audio clearly says "professeur".

[kshamashas]

Why is distributing instead of handing out wrong?

[Blair811122]

Duo this needs correction. Professeur is a perfectly valid translation alongside prof. Duo rejects Professeur without cause?

[Fiona65015]

Again, the same problem. Please correct.

[AlexanderK291823]

There seems to be a minor glitch with the answer DL gives. It is correct above but for some reason on the excercise it states the word should be 'teachers', with an 's'.

[Candyunicorn15]

Duo, this is a school, we bassiclaly cant do anything without books!!!

[frenchlessons]

Is this new voice intended to be comedic? I've never heard anyone speak like that.

[Derek276530]

An entire word ("aux") is missing from the spoken version.