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Something strange is going on today - it’s not working properly
I think since 1990 and the contentious spelling reforms, there are now two acceptable ways to spell “onion” in French. I think the Academy even prefers “ognon” to be used over “oignon”. In the same way that you now allow “s’il vous plait” without the circumflex as well as “s’il vous plaît”, maybe you should add the new spelling of onion as an acceptable option?
1. Jean- Pierre remarque la belle Mireille. Jean-Pierre
………remarque.
2. Mireille lève les yeux. Elle…….
lève.
3. Robert ne connaît pas Henri. Il ne………
connait pas.
4. Il n'ouvre pas cette porte. Il ne
……….ouvre pas.
5. Paul va fermer la fenêtre. Il va
……….fermer
Why is it "...qu'il ne pleuve." as opposed to "qu'il pleuve."?Mathilde put the car away before it rained.
In this example Je vois un soleil jaune et une fleur jaune. the pronounciation of the word jaune is very different for the first and second occurence. The first one is pronounced with an e almost like jauné, while the second one has a silent e like jaun.
Is the word pronounced differently depending on the gender, is the speech broken (it sounds very robotic), or is it pronounced differently depending on what word it comes before in the sentence (here ... jaune et ...)?
I gave elle s’assoit avec son fils but this was corrected to elle s’assois which isn’t the 3rd person .
I don't understand "nous a le plus marqués" Maybe it should be "nous avons le plus marqués" ?
Is it always incorrect to write "vingtième siècle" rather than "XXe siècle" ?
I get caught out by the punctuation in the listening exercises, partly because modern English writing has now dropped so many of the commas that we used to have, and partly because it’s difficult to know from the audio what punctuation is needed. A lesson on this would be useful.
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