The code is working well, but the system does not accept it.

Hey Postil, Your code will work if you remove the quotations in the split method. Also, this is how I did the challenge.

Here it is all together-

def word_count(string):
    list_of_words = string.lower().split()
    dict_words = {}
    for word in list_of_words:
        dict_words[word] = list_of_words.count(word)
    return dict_words

This is how I broke this challenge apart- I first took the string argument and made it all lowercase, by using the 'lower' function, then I put the words into a list by using the split method. Like so,

list_of_words = string.lower().split()

**Note how I'm using the lower method and split method on the same line. if you do it this way make sure that the lower() is before the split(). Also, notice that you don't need quotations in the parenthesis of the split function.

Then I created an empty dict. I notice that you made a couple in yours, but only one is needed.

dict_words = {}

Now creating the for loop. This should be pretty straight-forward now that it is a list. So, when you loop through the list of words, you have all the information you need to make the key and value for the dict.

for word in list_of_words:
        dict_words[word] = list_of_words.count(word)
    return dict_words

**If you haven't seen the count method yet take a look at this doc to see how it works (https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/methods/string/count)

Let me know if you have questions and I'll try to answer it the best I can.