French language Q&A Forum

1. Puis-je écrire « où » au lieu de « quand » ici ?

2. Est-ce qu'il y a une règle qui nous permet de déterminer quelles expressions anglaises contenant « with » se traduiraient par « de » en français ?

3. « Une fondue chinoise » est-elle un plat suisse ?

Merci de votre coopération.

After a listening or writing practice, I check the Q&A.  Sometimes there is a discussion that I find I want to revisit later.  How can I get to the Q&A for a lesson without re-doing the lesson?  Also, how can I find questions I have previously posted? 

The lesson to explain when to use le subjontif or l'indicatif doesn't, in plain language explain the trigger to cause one to use either tense. It needs to more deeply describe when and why each tense is chosen. This, of course, is my opinion as a student.

To my knowledge, 'le plus que parfait' is used to indicate actions before a (supposedly) principal action, denoted in passe compose,  in the past. I have had a hard time with what this principal action here. 

Ce film, qu'il avait réalisé, écrit et produit, est un chef-d'œuvre absolu 

Je n'avais pas entendu parler de ce film avant

Il a aussi réalisé la série à succès Big Little Lies

I didn't understand the justification for the tenses used here. If someone can help me with this, I would deeply appreciate it. 

Thanks in advance.

I wrote j’irai but Kwizbot said the answer is je vais aller

I would have expected devoir to be used here instead of avoir. Could someone clarify? Maybe I'm not understanding the tenses clearly. Thanks!

Not a great lesson. This lesson is to Conjugate acquérir and other irregular -QUÉRIR verbs but it does not tell us how to pronounce acquérir or any of the other -QUÉRIR verbs (in their infinitive) form, which of course would be widely used.

As usual with so many lessons, much screen space is wasted with the bold ‘Learn how to conjugate blah blah…@ when blah blah is spelt out 5 CMs above. That’s pointless. As are the coloured lines, which should be used to show which elements of text relate to which other elements of text , i.e. which explanation pertains to which example but instead they are as good as random.

This lesson does at least give us the English translation of the verb in question which some do not.

So…. May I please suggest that you have the following as standards for setting out these ‘Quick lessons’.

  1Don’t ever waste screen space (and us leaner’s time) with the bold ‘learn how to… Portion. When it has already been said above.

2.       2Always give the English translation of the word in question.... and any other examples

3.       3When teaching the specifics of any word please give us the pronunciation of that word.

4.       4When listing other verbs as examples of those, which conjugate the same etc., please give those pronunciations.

I hope you take this criticism in the positive way it is meant. I like KWIZIQ and would recommend it but your quick lessons do sometimes fail to hit the mark.

I really wish I could take a 10 - 15 question quiz on some of these lessons, like this one. I often feel like two questions is not enough to cement or really learn some of these.

I would have thought that 'la fois dernière meant 'the previous time, not 'the final time'