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Going through the new course

by Vestitor, July 20, 2016

Messages: 16

Language: English

Vestitor (User's profile) July 20, 2016, 10:15:06 PM

Okay, I decided to go through the new course, but I'm hitting some obstacles in the sense that it is rejecting sentences that are essentially correct.

Example: there is a question: Kio estas la eŭropa mono en la jaro 2012?, to which I answered: La eŭropa mono en la jaro du mil dek du estas eŭroj.

The system refuses it and insists upon: Eŭro estas la eŭropa mono en la jaro du mil dek du.

There can't possibly be only one acceptable answer for this.

Vestitor (User's profile) July 21, 2016, 12:48:26 AM

Roch:eŭroj aren't the name of a mono

Maybe, La eŭropa mono en la jaro du mil dek du estas Eŭro externalImage.png
That's just my spelling mistake here; on the course I did write "Eŭro".

erinja (User's profile) July 21, 2016, 1:20:16 AM

You'll note that the lesson is accompanied by an audio file from the course text. I think the lesson is actually looking for a verbatim quote from the story, as the answer.

Vestitor (User's profile) July 21, 2016, 10:54:18 AM

Aha. I wasn't using the audio. Right, for the rest of the course I'm going to put myself into the mindset of someone approaching Esperanto for the first time.

Btw, I noticed that there is the odd word missing in the English sentences. Is it worth reporting these to staff members?

erinja (User's profile) July 21, 2016, 1:16:11 PM

Yes, absolutely report errors in the English! Or apply for translation rights and correct them yourself, which is also massively helpful. Traduko.lernu.net

Jev (User's profile) July 21, 2016, 1:28:34 PM

erinja:Yes, absolutely report errors in the English! Or apply for translation rights and correct them yourself, which is also massively helpful. Traduko.lernu.net
lernu.traduko.net

Vestitor (User's profile) July 21, 2016, 4:37:20 PM

See here; Ici; au ĉi tie.

Vestitor (User's profile) July 25, 2016, 6:24:35 PM

I have translation rights, but there are some things I can't correct. For example: In lesson 4, section 19 there is a sentence 'La estas la prezidanto de Usono' which is clearly not right - La instead of Li presumably. I assume it is hidden to the translation?

erinja (User's profile) July 25, 2016, 11:32:11 PM

That's an error in the original Esperanto text, an administrator will have to correct it.

bdlingle (User's profile) July 26, 2016, 3:37:03 PM

I found when I went through that section you were talking about, Vestitor, that my answer was right, but I forgot the correct punctuation. I was marked wrong and I didn't know why until someone, on the Duolingo facebook group, pointed out that I didn't put a period at the end of the sentence.

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