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William B.C1Kwiziq community member

Quiz question 'Je suis en vacances du neuf au treize juillet.' Shouldn't the quiz question use the de (vs du) form because we're talking about specific dates? It seems unlikely I would have the 9th thru 13th off every year?

Asked 8 years ago

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Peter B.C1Kwiziq community member

circonflexeWhy - château but - chapeau I don't understand the use of the circonflexe when to me the pronunciation appears similar

Asked 7 years ago

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AurélieKwiziq Head of French, Native French Teacher

Wendy asked: "Why isn't it 'll s'est fait FAIRE couper les cheveux? When do you use fais faire?"

Asked 8 years ago

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Bonnie C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

En Idaho ou dans l'Idaho?

Asked 6 years ago

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Norman S.C1Kwiziq community member

Interpretation and update of improvement timeline1. How should I interpret the two graph lines and their associated values on the diagram? 2. Why does my timeline seem to be stuck at 4 February?

Asked 8 years ago

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Mysterious StrangerKwiziq community member

Long and short scale.Billions, trillions and so forth can be confusing. Two scales are used. A long scale, used in many english-speaking countries: 10^3 - thousand 10^6 - million 10^9 - billion 10^12 - trillion 10^15 - quadrillion 10^18 - quintillion 10^21 - sextillion (each "-illion" increases by a power of 3) And a long scale, used in most european countries: 10^3 - mille 10^6 - million 10^9 - milliard 10^12 - billion 10^15 - billiard 10^18 - trillion 10^21 - trilliard (each "-illion" increases by a power of 6 with a "-illiard" in-between) This can be confusing for an european when reading international news. For example, when the US is spending a trillion(en) dollars, it's actually spending a billion(fr), 10^12, not a trillion(fr), 10^18.

Asked 8 years ago

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Pen A.A1Kwiziq community member

J'habite à Indianapolis. The city starts with a vowel, so is it still correct?

Asked 8 years ago

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Duke W.B2Kwiziq community member

Brain Map for Premium UsersBrain Map is not responsive to gestures in revealing more information (other than color codes) when used on an iPad with most current iOS with Safari as the browser. Thank you in advance as the feature is quite extraordinary if it will provide detailed analysis as the tutorial demonstrates. PS Are there plans to release kwiziq as an app (currently available only in a browser) and a "native speaker" segment as used in some other language apps?

Asked 8 years ago

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Don P.C1Kwiziq community member

Nitpicking correction to the textWhere you write "In order to turn a sentence from active to passive voice, the tense of the auxiliary être must be the same as the tense of the main verb of the active sentence," shouldn't you instead say "the auxiliary VERB" or "the auxiliary VERB ÊTRE/AVOIR", especially since the examples that follow use "avoir" and not "être."

Asked 8 years ago

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jane b.A2Kwiziq community member

Je viens de Brooklyn en Aux Etats Unis.

Asked 9 years ago

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