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I am having a hard time trying to understand what is the meaning of this sentence ... :\
This is terribly worded. I think they are trying to say, "I write (quasi) a book per year."
I told duolongo that "about" is preferable than around - it is a drop down choice.
The English translations of many of the examples in thus section are just awful!
My translation was marked as correct: "I write about a book each year" which would make more sense as the correct translation, but a better translation would be to use the word "every" like this: "I write about a book every year".
To me "I write around a book per year" means that each year I get a book, put it on a table and start writing around it. However I only buy ebooks now, so the phrase would need to change to "I write around my tablet every year". However, I don't write on paper these days, I write using my laptop so the tablet would need to be placed against my screen so I can type words around it.
My memory isn't that great, so I would need to make a recurring calendar event to do this every year. I'm thinking Xmas day would be the best. To be honest, I would probably sneak in a few more sessions during the year. Such fun.
Around is a fine translation, and it send the right message across. Nobody writes siting around a book, nobody would think that. But "approximately " would be the best word to use. "About" can actually be confusing, because it could mean that you write something related to a book every year, especially if you use "a" instead of "one", and " every" instead of "per"
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I agree. "I write around a book a year" or "I go there around twice a month" - in both cases, it means "about" or "approximately."
Why I can't use form "I write about one book for year" it is sound well to me something like " a book per year" or perhaps that expression has different meaning.
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"About" is OK, but you wouldn't say "for year" in English. It makes no sense. You can say "I write about a book per year" or "I write about a book a year."
Not really. "I write about one book in a year" specifies it takes me a year to write one (or so) books, while "I write around a book per year" means that nearly each year I write a book. The difference is subtle.
After the second checkpoint it is hard to understand the expression !? WE need more help
How about " I write about a book per annum"? How is that wrong as a literal interpretation?
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Audio really sucks. Scrivo in both the exercise and discussion audio sounds like Stivo. Reported.= 4 June 2018.
For some reason it won't let me get past this question despite having the exact same wording
