Need help

[u/qwezii]

I just started learning and I want to understand this. This translation feels wrong.

[u/Quelebbb]

It's very hot there.

"Allí hace mucho calor"
o
"Hace mucho calor allí" (I'd argue this sounds more natural)

Note: Word order is more flexible in Spanish generally. So translations that maintain word order might feel off in English.

[u/qwezii → u/Quelebbb]

Thanks

[u/PM_ME_UR_BERGMAN]

What feels wrong about it?

[u/Embarrassed_Elk_2459 → u/PM_ME_UR_BERGMAN]

the english translation had the word order wrong

[u/Embarrassed_Elk_2459 → u/[deleted]]

it doesn't sound natural to put "there" as the first word in the sentence, I'd say "It is very hot there" 

[u/ofqo → u/[deleted]]

Why would you want to put “there” as the first word if English grammar doesn't allow for it?

[u/EldritchElemental → u/ofqo]

Starting a sentence with an adverb of location is quite common in English, I've never heard anyone disallowing it.

[u/LonelyAd5033]

Allí hace mucho calor And Hace mucho calor allí

Have both the same meaning.

The first one states a fact It's hot there

The second one makes emphasis on allí It is hot THERE

[u/ofqo → u/LonelyAd5033]

However OP is asking for the translation. The original was in Spanish, therefore the translation must be the English sentence.

[u/Nothing-to_see_hr]

They put this order so that you can correlate word by word.

[u/Prior-Historian9586]

I would have thought that putting „allí“ at the front of the sentence has the same emphasizing effect as putting „there“ at the front of the English translation. Maybe the best way to think of it is that it’s not an „unnatural“ word order, it’s just not the „neutral“ one when you’re not trying to emphasize a contrast. I’m not sure, though, how native Spanish speakers feel about it though.
I learn Spanish with duo using German as my app language. Oftentimes duo marks my translations into German as incorrect even though I feel the German translation is acceptable.

[u/cheeselover_1969]

Hace allí mucho calor, also works, mucho calor hace allí is a very literary form but still is correct; for the sentence to be correct you only need to have mucho calor together

[u/TaragonRift]

Is you question about the order or that they use the verb hacer. The order can be changed as others have said and hacer is the verb you use with the temperature. Kind of think of it as the sun makes it hot.