"Li estas komencanto , sed li rapide lernas."

Translation: He is a beginner, but he learns fast.

[AelienFelis]

Sounds like a sentence about me... exluding "he", of course :3

[zdVs]

Feels like duolingo gossips with Google Translate or something...

[EuroSpanish]

sed → Latin for "but"

[Poolkman]

Could I say: "Li estas komencanto, sed rapide lernas"?

[StyleNote]

Jes, vi povas. Tiu ĉi frazo estas korekta.

[PrauaeBoleti]

Should, " ... but he rapidly learns." be acceptable?

[Luis_Domingos]

Adverbs are usually bumped to after the verb in English when there's no object."...he learns rapidly" is perfectly fine grammatically (it's the most used adverb in this situation though - quickly and fast take precedence).

[NotMultilingual]

I kept pronouncing it "komenkanto". I'm glad I caught that before I made myself look like an idiot.

[WilliamHallman]

How is 'He is a beginner, but he will learn quickly.' wrong?

[broces]

It is because "he will learn" is a future tense, and "li estas komencanto" is present.

[JackLongDay]

Dura lex, sed lex