"För oss är det en ära."
Translation:For us it is an honor.
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I agree, I've turned off the listen-and-type exercise since it's too tricky.
These two sentences do sound very much the same in real life so I still think the TTS is actually pretty good here.
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This feels like a bit of a literal translation. It feels a bit clunky in english. Would 'It's an honour for us' be more appropriate?
A is used for words that start with a consonant sound, ie: a House. An is for words that start with a vowel sound, ie: an (h)onor.
I actually never realized that lol, While learnibg Swedish I guess I'm learning more of English too.
Since the H of honor is pronounced the H must be dropped like I did. For words like herb H stays because the H is there but it is not pronounced. Some people maintain that in writing either way is OK but when I studied English in school in Italy with a British teacher, he insisted that even in writing should be dropped. However that was about a eon ago so may be the evolution of languages has changed everything!
The h in honor/honour can never be left out. It doesn't matter that it isn't pronounced - the correct spelling still uses it. As for herb, whether to pronounce the h is regional. I honestly (onestly? :p) don't know what your teacher was thinking.
I was not talking about the h of the ward but about the n of the article because I wrote it is "a honor" and was rejected. Duo wants : an honor. Of course the H MUST be there!
Oh, sorry. I misunderstood you. But the h in honour is silent, you don't pronounce it. Hence the "an".