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When I listen to the entire passage, I clearly hear the word elle in the last sentence. When I listen to the last sentence as given in the exercise, I hear what sounds like 'on' instead of elle. I don't have the best ears, but it is what I hear.
How do you say “Not only…”?
Why is "pouvoir" before "les utiliser" in the fourth sentence? The English to be translated was just "in order to use".
The following sentence has the verb following 'que'. Is this OK?
C'est ainsi que se termine cette histoire.That's how this story ends.
Shouldn't it be:C'est ainsi que cette histoire se termine.
Is there some reason to use one or the other? It seems to me that there needs to be an object for ¨adorer¨...?
Why do you use translations in the full text playback that are not the translations said to be the best when providing feedback on the student-submitted translations? Are they perhaps the ones used most by native speakers.
It’d be nice to have an example of what to do with the past participle of être verbs when using "on" when it means "we". I can’t find this covered in either of the modules On : we.
I understand the literal meaning of this phrase but not really the sense of what she's saying. Agreeing? disagreeing?
-Bonjour ! Comment tu t'applles ?
-Je suis Laila.
-Tu n'es pas français James, j'entends un accent. D'où viens-tu?
-Je parlais anglais. Je suis de Géorgie.
-As-tu des frères et soeurs ?
- Oui j'ai une Soeur plus âgée
-j'habite dans le nord
-C'est super ! Tu parles très bien français.
-Je suppose
-Non, vraiment !
-Merci, vous êtes très gentil.
-Et tu aimes bien Bordeaux?
-Oui c'est très sympa !
-Haha ! Oui, en effet. Merci pour cette interview.
-Merci, ce fut un plaisir !
Mon chien favorit s'appelait Pip. Why the imparfait here? It seems a simple statement, neither ongoing, repeated nor descriptive. It doesn't seem to fulfill any of the criteria of the imparfait.
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