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J'aime beaucoup cette idée de proposer des exercices pour nous aider à lire et à écouter le français. Mais serait-il possible d'ajouter aussi des questions ou un quiz pour aider les apprenants à consolider le nouveau vocabulaire? Par exemple, sur TV5Monde, il y a beaucoup d'exercices qui vérifient sa compréhension des textes. En faisant les exercices, on apprend beaucoup et on doit penser à la signification des mots et des expressions, ce qui est vraiment utile.
Hello, on the site it is written "assoyiais" for the 1st Person Plural Imperfect - modern form. Shouldn't it be assoyions?
(https://www.lawlessfrench.com/verb-conjugations/asseoir/)
“au-dessus de l’assiette “. When I read this I picture the cutlery floating over the plate. “Dessus de l’assiette” I can imagine the cutlery sitting above the plate. Pouvez-vous m’expliquer pourquoi on utilise au-dessus vs dessus dans cette phrase.
Bonjour:
Quand on peut utiliser "des" devant une chose plurielle et quand on doit utiliser "les"?
Merci,
Martin
Why is it 'le jeudi' not just 'jeud'i?
We are talking about a particular Thursday here...
I like to try to expand my vocabulary and came across the verb répartir and used it in my translation. AI Overview quotes : répartir implies a more active process of distributing or sharing out, while "diviser" is more about the act of dividing itself. What’s your opinion ? I acknowledge that this is an A2 exercise and perhaps répartir is a little bit highfalutin but is it acceptable ? Also, the hints at A2 are definitely useful.
Despite studying some references given to me by Maarten, I still erred in choosing the wrong past tense for the translation of "Hi Charlotte, have you been following the Cannes Festival this year?". I interpreted 'has been following' (past progressive, I think, in English) as a continuing action throughout the year, hence imperfect tense. If you had said " Did you follow the Cannes Festival this year", I think I would have chosen passé composé. Still a bit confused.
I like to have models to follow, and your lesson gives the following model: Rappeler + à + person being reminded + [infinitive]
Yet your quiz question "She reminds us to take our jackets"
is given the correct answer "Elle nous rappele de prendre nos vestes"
The model suggests that 'à' is a necessary part of the correct grammer but here it would be marked as wrong. I am disappointed and confused by the lesson that offers a clear model that is not correct.
In this text we have : une petite Margarita , une grande pizza Quatre Fromages, and une petite Hawaïenne.
On the internet I am seeing a mix of Pizza names with capitalisation and without capitalisation (in French).
Should they be capitalised, or are both capitalised and uncapitalised names acceptable ?
Thanks
Paul
I marked myself down for writing "je fais une soupe tiède" rather than "je fais une soupe chaude".
In English warm doesn't mean hot, and in fact I'm not sure we would say "warm soup", but "hot soup". Does "tiède" mean warm? Or do we always use "chaud" for food?
Also, the bot corrected my "une crème brûlée fait maison" to "une crème brûlée faite maison" so I also marked myself down for that and then it turned out my original version was fine after all. :)
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