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- "Vi tittade på norrskenet."
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This is not only the swedish lady's problem, nearly all the text to speech robots on duolingo have their bugs. I usually check the suspective words on forvo.com. And thanks a lot for offering your help! :)
"norrskenet" is wrongly pronounced. The first syllable should be stressed, not the second. I do not understand this, because a native speaker would never make that mistake - but this woman sounds like a native speaker (with an inner-city Stockholm vernacular, not the most posh accent that is) otherwise. Is she a robot?
Actually, in my Midwestern US dialect, if I said, "we saw Mt. Rushmore" it would be more idiomatic than "we looked at Mt. Rushmore." However, in the present tense, the senses would be flipped. "We are looking at Mt. Rushmore" vs "we are seeing Mt. Rushmore." The second present tense example means more like visiting, and might actually imply that it's happening in the immediate future, rather than currently. I.e., presently.