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For the question ""Je suis très vieux." The speaker is:" I have answered this as "male" but the bot is grading my answer as BOTH incorrect and unanswered. Could you advise which it is?
Je pense que Madame Lambert a besoin d’un nouveau vétérinaire!
I thought this was "je recommanderais" - "which I would recommend" - rather than "which I will recommend".
Two questions:
1) In this context, would the French always say "I will recommend" rather than " I would recommend"?
2) If not, is there any way of detecting the difference, aurally, between first person in the future and in the conditional ?
en tant que b2/c1, combien du texte est-ce que je suis censé comprendre ? je comprends 90% mais je n'ai pas connu les noms des pays... je devrais les apprendre ?
I have read other explanations of à qui and the auquel forms of the relative pronouns and they are not interchangeable; à qui is used for people and the auquel form is used for things and animals. I think this distinction should be corrected in your lesson and on the tests.
Why is quiz not plural in the follwing sentence?
On va regarder des films d'horreur et faire des quiz sur le thème d'Halloween.
I haven’t come across "une terrasse touristique" - is it a pavement café?
Also, it seems to me that there’s an extraneous consonant in the fourth sentence, between du and lieu: qui émane du … lieu lui-même
(Not sure how to flag technical issues in the listening exercises)
Is the pronunciation of "nombreuses années" in the first example correct? To my ear it sounds odd to emphasize the "es" when making the liaison.
In the question...
Comment ________ tes vacances ?How are your holidays going?... I wrote "vont" instead of "se passent". Why is that unacceptable, given that you can say "Comment allez-vous?"? Can you only use "aller" with people to mean "go" in this sense?
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