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Sorry if I’m being thick, but could someone please explain what the following mean:  than"]">   as"]">   and    que"]">   at the head of each grammar explanation in the sidebar of the lesson?

Is the hyphen with 41 correct here? On the page Expressing numbers 70 to 999 in French it says no hyphen for 41?

The following answer is given as correct: 'J'ai eu peur que nous soyons arrivés trop tard'.  

My question is: given its 'negative ' sentiment shouldn't the answer include the 'ne expletif'?

Great dictée, interesting, with food for thought.

I continue to find punctuation challenging, as the speaker's voice does not always indicate what follows etc. 

An example from this dictée: It opens with "Bonjour" followed by - to me - a long silence in which l imagine the speaker connecting with the audience and then, "Aujourd'hui..." So  l wrote "Bonjour! Aujourd'hui ..." whereas Kwiziq is programmed for "Bonjour, aujourd'hui ...".

I no longer deduct for punctuation such as commas, exclamation marks  and full stops and wonder whether naming at least these could be considered. Thanks!

The audio of this exercise was having difficulty -- one can't replay the dictées and the replay of the whole dictation broke up into disjointed bits and pieces. Can this be fixed?

Why is "bien" used in this sentence to say "we did say 7"? 

Ça capte mal chez nous - How does this mean "bad reception"? why can't we use "réception"?

On est très proches, ma sœur et moi. On est gentils.

Here we have est with proches/gentils. Is it a general rule?

explain the use of the infinitive with conditional. I don't understand.