"Voglio che tu mi dica la verità."
Translation:I want you to tell me the truth.
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Brenda, I totally agree with you regarding the english translation. That said, what it should help you/us all remember more easily is how italian structures it, meaning the words that Italian uses to express that idea, namely a subordinate clause introduced by ...that you.../che tu...and a subjunctive. If you translate the english sentence you correctly cite below using the very same words into Italian you won't be expressing it as an Italian would, you'll sound like an English speaker trying to speak italian. My point being we're all trying to learn Italian, not English.
My problem is not with the Italian sentence! I completely understand it. I am fluent an Spanish and that's how we would say it too! My problem is with the English version because their literal translation does not work and we should not be marked wrong for something that in english to us English speakers makes no sense!
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I had to write what I heard and I got this right but was surprised when it showed me the translation as "they will be back in one hour." I did this exercise in the morning and owls are nocturnal so I'll chalk it up to Duo being groggy.