Examples in 6.7

I gave feedback but has anyone else noticed that the example 'Der Frau gefällt das Hotel. The woman likes the hotel.' is confusing because the translation is 'The woman likes the hotel' when, more accurately, it is 'The hotel pleases the woman'. That makes a big difference when trying to figure out the indirect object in the sentence. Of course that also demonstrates the way German can re-orient their phrases based on the case used. One could not say in English 'The woman pleases the hotel' and have mean what it does in German. Perhaps that example should not have been used yet.

Also, 'Ich gebe dem Jungen die Schlüssel für den Schuppen. I’ll give the boy the keys to the shed.' confuses because the lesson has not explained that the object of the preposition uses the Accusative case (or so it appears). Kind of makes sense but it would help to have mentioned that.

I didn't find anyone else questioning this in the forum but perhaps it will help someone that does run into this problem.

Also, try not taking translation so directly or definitively. The word "Gefällt", doesn't just mean "to please". It can also mean "to like", "to feel", and so on (roughly translated). A lot of the time a word is translated exactly the way you think of it, because of when you first learned the word... but not 100%. Eventually, you will have to learn to think in the Language you are learning and not always translating in your head. When you see the English translations of a conversation do not take it literally even if it matches 100%. Look at it as "this is how it is said in German". Otherwise you will continue to use bad Grammer because you will be always thinking in English and trying to speak German. Take it from someone who lives in Germany and also learns better from Grammer. I'm speaking from experience.

I just got to this point of the lessons and I do agree with Eldon. This is quite confusing! I do see the same thing as Kyle T does!!! Thanks Eldon cause your translation did clarify a little bit my doubt. I really don't get these lessons quite well. I did the quiz and I scored 100% but I am still confused!!! Is not that we are trying to think in English and then translate to German, but when you are learning a new language you cannot just switch to think in the new language, you need a little help of translation to understand what you are learning and English is not even my native language! (but as you can notice I can think, write and speak English without a problem... hopefully will be able to do the same with German). Can anybody can explain a little bit further?

"Nik spricht mit ihrem chef" because "mit" is one of the prepositions always followed by the dative case.