"¿Quiénes son tus abogados?"

In the US, we just have lawyers. However, in much of the world, there are two kinds of lawyers: barristers and solicitors. Very different from the common US meaning for the word "solicitor," which can refer to door-to-door salesmen.

In British English, they are the same.

Besides abrigato, one of the dictionaries I use lists, jurista, and letrado. No solicitor, though.

if so why do you use duolingo. Duolingo is for people who want to learn not people who joined to show off

Charley-Farley Is it working?? LOL

Yes this is true buuuuuuuuut... If you look at it this way [it anoys me to]

Okay, okay, since you only want student answerss, I will supply one. The reason "advocates" is not provided is because Duolingo is looking to see the answering taught which was plainly provided. What Duolingo doesn't do is provide all the possibly answers in existence. For example, "duro" means, "hard." But it also means, tough, harsh, difficult, stiff, severe, hardcore, strong, stale, stern, stubborn, unkind, intensive, adamant, hard-hearted, hard-boiled, and more. It is not Duolingo's objective to teach us to become professional translators. If it was then it would have its database loaded with all possible translations of a given word. It is Duolingo's objective to simplify learning stripping the process of as much complication as possible. It even f, intentionally oregoes in depth instruction in gramar. I know. They've said so. Though it has broken down and began supplying helpful tips. So to expect "advocates" or other such out of the most common translation which Duolingo supplies means that one is studying the wrong course. By the way, your guess was off. My message was a joke and you did take it the wrong way nulifying your reply and thumbs down of any value. But thanks for the response anyway. .Forgive the solid copy block. Duo has added a new bug which eliminates the return key on an Andrid tablet PC from being able to create new lines. The return key does nothing durring text entry. Stupid! And frustrating.

Does not matter whether you use a word or not, And if you don't know a given word you can always look it up. However, the main objective here is to learn how to think in Spanish while getting away from thinking in English altogether and it is for that reason you have an advantage over the US English thinking people that are studying Spanish. What we all need to do is learn to think of an abrigado as being an "obrigado" (exactly that, and just that) while not thinking of the English words, lawyer, or solicitor, or attorney, or barrister, or shyster, or whatever English translation there may be, whatsoever. ¡Un abrigado es un abrigado! ¡Sí! Again, since you don't use the word, lawyer, you have an advantage over the rest of us which do use that word. Me, i need to stop thinking of the word, lawyer, and just think, "abrigado." And that's all. I need to kill all the lawyers in my head! You, on the other hand, don't have to do that. Lucky you!

The main idea, here, is to learn Spanish, and not English. In many cases there can be no direct English correspondence to a given Spanish word, especially with regard verbs. Sometimes the nearest most valid translation requires several English words to get at the nuance of the Spanish word. Duolingo overlooks this difficult by simply selecting a particular English word and going with that as it is enough. Keep in mind this is not a study course to become a professional translator. All that is necessary is for Duolingo to do is work with fundamental English associations and just go with that. It is up to us to expand our knowledge. Back in grade school we were expected to use dictionaries to look words up in which we were learning. Why expect it to be any different here? In no way should Duolingo be expected to provide every English alternate meaning to what Spanish words can be interpreted into. For example, duro (hard) translates into over a dozen different English variations. But as for the several different British based countries that speak, Ye Old English, they need to realize that Britain is no longer the center of the universe and learn English as it is spoken in Russia, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Iceland, hell, the whole world over, almost everywhere except where the hood of a car is called a bonnet and the trunk, a boot. US English is no longer simply US English. It is the world's English. It now belongs to all countries, all except where color is incorrectly, superfluously, and stubornly, spelt colour. Duolingo has expressed an interest in accommodating these backward countries locked into using a dying dialect. So if one wishes to see solicitor included then just do a report. No tears necessary.