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J'habite à Colombie et toi?

Colombie est trés jollie 

Bienvenue 

Vane

The exercise uses « Mon parfum « 

Is parfum in this context « Flavor »? Is it appropriate to use the word saveur?

In this Kwiz, you state that I did not answer two questions, no 7 and no 8.

But I have a screenshot of my answers, showing that I DID answer them and had both correct.

This seems a bit unfair. I really got 8/10.

The other question I have is about question 1 (time duration). I got "Phileas Fogg avait un jour d'avance." right, using "avoir".

You state that your answer of "Phileas Fogg était en avance d'un jour" (using "être" is correct, but in the lesson, it says that the correct cuse of "étre" is: Phileas Fogg était un jour en avance. 

So, I think that your "étre" construction is wrong.

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William Humphreys 

Bonjour, I ran into a sentence on a youtube video. "Elle adore travailler avec les enfants et les aide à apprendre de nouvelle chose. My question is why "DE" used with the verb apprendre in this sentence. "Apprendre de" means learn something from someone/something but this definition doesn't correspond the meaning of apprendre in this sentence. What is the function of this "DE" in this sentence.

Merci..   

Hello, 

This lesson, on 'san que (+ ne explétif) + the subjunctive mood', states that the use of the 'ne' is optional in modern spoken French. Additionally, it is omitted when the main verb is used with a negation.  Unsurprisingly, the lesson teaches with examples using 'ne'.

Yet, in your test I was marked wrong for doing so. Specifically, the question was to complete a sentence, which I submitted as: 

"Tu as fait tout ça sans que ne Neve soit au courant".

Yet the correct answer is shown without the 'ne'.

Have I misunderstood something here?

Thanks in advance,

D

"Tu as fait tout ça sans que ne Neve soit au courant"

Pourriez-vous m'expliquer mes erreurs ? Quelle est la différence entre arbuste et buisson ? Et pourquoi va "dans le salon" et non "au salon" ? 

-Merci 

The lesson said that y replaces [à+ thing], and that an indirect pronoun replaces  [à + person]. 

The question was "Il pense à sa famille. Elle....pense aussi."  'Famille' is people, so why is the answer given as 'y' and not 'leur'?

Jill ________ la colline pour retrouver Jacques.

The given answer is a monté la colline.

Firstly, no one climbs a hill. Perhaps a mountain but not a hill. One goes up a hill. Further, there is no indication she is taking anything up a hill. She is simply going up a hill by herself. This should use être, should it not?

Puis vers vingt-deux heures trente,...

I used "Alors" instead of puis or one of the other possibilities.  

Why not alors?