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Linda Q.B1Kwiziq community member

de ou du?

Why do we have Office de Tourisme, amateur de vin, Miroir d'Eau, amateurs d'histoire, protégé de France ( why not de La France?)

but, Cité du Vin, de l'histoire du vin, Fontaine des 3 Grâces?

Asked 4 years ago

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chris w.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

reviser translation to english

Small point. 'After studying for your exam..' 'use reviser' , it might be more accurate to use the common English expression, 'after revising for your exam'. Revising implies going over old material, studying usually means learning new material. IMHO

Asked 4 years ago

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G B.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Punctuation query

The sentence to be translated: I can listen to them for hours!

I wrote: Je peux les écouter pendant des heures !

The exclamation mark was marked as incorrect even though it was called for in the original sentence.

Asked 4 years ago

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N. Hilary (Shamrockhill) W.C1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Learned a new and useful expression

I've seen quite a few cricket matches and have always found them to be somewhat boring as the game is so slow compared to baseball, (no offense to my British counterparts, here). But, that may be because I never have really understood what was going on.

I liked this exercise and learned a new expression: "donner les grandes lignes" - "to give an outline". And, now that I have "les grande lignes" for cricket, I might enjoy watching a match more!

Just a note: "le batteur" sounds more like, "le batere"

Merci !

Asked 3 years ago

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Hi, just to let you know......the audio for “QUENTIN : Quand arrive-t-on ?” has some additional words at the end. Something like “too formal”.

Asked 5 years ago

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David H.Kwiziq community member

Level test

I have lots of questions

First what's the use of this level test

Asked 3 years ago

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Tibor H.B2Kwiziq community member

Could you help me with demonstrative pronouns?

Hello,

So, the demonstrative pronouns in French, if I'm not mistaken, are: celui, ceux, celle, celles

While in English, they're: this, these, that, those

But if I want to translate: That looks like the car I used to drive. in French, that's Cela ressemble à la voiture que je conduisais.

Why cela and not celle ?

So, when do you actually use the french demonstrative pronouns?

Asked 4 years ago

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D. A.C1Kwiziq community member

aller a pied???

I answered the question "Elle a manqué le bus, donc elle doit ________." as aller a pied, but this was scored as incorrect. But the lesson tells me to use this when walking is CONTRASTED WITH ANOTHER MEANS OF TRANSPORT, which it seems to me is exactly the case here!

What am I missing????

Asked 3 years ago

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Farid M.C1Kwiziq community member

Le phrase de debut: On a DE la chance

Je crois qu'il y a une erreur d'inscription ici: grammaticalement, et aussi per la narration accompagnante, le premier phrase de dictée doit être "avoir DE la chance".

Le mot "de" est manqué?

Asked 5 years ago

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Shanti N.A2Kwiziq community member

There is a typo in the video in the last slide - Their Books

Their Books should be Leurs Livres and not Leur livres as mentioned in the video or am I wrong?

Asked 4 years ago

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