"Lui mangia il riso."

Translation: He eats rice.

[ruano91]

Wouldn't it be "the rice" instead of soley "rice?

[mukkapazza]

The definite article in Italian can also be used to indicate a general category. In English this is done by using no article at all.

[ruano91]

Oh I see. When do you know to say "the rice" or "rice"?

[Rae.F]

"I've never seen him eat rice."
"Really? He eats rice all the time."
"You don't say."
"Well, he eats the rice I make for him at home."

[Paolo-D]

Agree. In fact, this app often adds "the", in the alternate correct answer bubble. Yet, on this question, chosing BOTH is wrong?! "Cucino riso" and "Cucino il riso" both seem appropriate. Inconsistent.

[Babc2709]

It sounded like he said "rislo"! The slow speed recording was a lot better to understand.

[Flibbo]

same for me, still i do not think it is a recording but rather a sound generation algorithm with a glitch in this instance

[whateverrrr1234]

Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between il riso and il risotto?

[Paolo-D]

Approximately £3

[andre_andry]

Riso = rice
Risotto = the dish you make with rice

[Rae.F]

That's odd. I went to Google Translate, set the input to Italian and the output to English, then input "risotto". What came out was ... "risotto".

[Ellis930361]

How does riso mean rice and laughed? What if someone misunderstood you and thought you said "let's eat laughs" or "I got a good rice out of that joke"?

[Rae.F]

Same way "run" can mean a number of different things in English. Or "set". Or "bear". Or "light". Or "box".

[Huntillas]

Is the computer reading fast in some of these "listen and write" situations or is the spoken language just generally fast flowing?

[bertie6]

yes I found the same, the il riso was so hard to define even in slow speed.

[YoonheeFi]

I live in Italia. Actually italia people speak faster. I think pronunce of some words absolutely bad. It's not problem of speed

[Tomas258654]

Oops. I typed east instead of eats and it marked me wrong. I like it better when it just warns me about a typo!

[Rae.F]

East is a real word. Duolingo will never mark that as a typo because it cannot distinguish typo from bad translation in cases like that.

[alberialti]

Must be my hearing. I swear he says “freso”