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I heard a statement that the hat was orange. I heard no high rise terminal that would make it a question.
Yes, also "orange" seems mispronounced. This does happen with Duo's voicebot. Hopefully you Posted to "Post a Problem", I just have and I'm not enough.
Agree that the 'est' was clipped. I would have reported it but the report function only has a checkbox, no way to leave an explanation of what the problem is.
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I believe in this case the liaison is optional, so you can pronounce T or not, as you wish.
http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-liaisons-o.htm
Do you mean to ask whether there would be a 'liason' between 'est' and 'orange' when spoken? Yes, I believe so. In the audio however the est got clipped, as though the audio was edited poorly. It's nothing like how a real person would say that sentence.
Yup! You nearly always make the liaison when the next word starts with a vowel sound.
Get married and take your wife out. She asks you to "Wear your nice Hat" and you don your team's baseball cap......................
Get married, with an orange hat?... Get married and go to the park and take your orange cap
Why is translating 'The hat is yellow' wrong if orange means orange, yellow, and amber. This is crazy
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It means orange. Other translations can be a mistake or maybe they meant some cultural difference about what is considered yellow or orange – but that's just in some very specific cases, normally you should stick to orange.
i heard the audio say "ont", rather than "est". it was very clear that it was a nasal O. i even repeated it thrice in slow-mo because it sounded wrong
" The basic structure of a question in English is very simple: auxiliary verb + subject + main verb" https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-questions_structure.htm
The translation as a statement with the question mark at the end is improper.
