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Hi Dear kwiziqians,
The below English texts have below them their translations, which have two
"fonts" : Italic and Bold.
Would you mind telling me which translations are correct between the italic
and bold translations?
Why You Feel So Stressed Out After a Vacation
La raison
pour laquelle vous vous sentez si stressé après des vacances or Pourquoi vous vous sentez si stressé après des
vacances ( I don't think that this is normal because "pourquoi"
is used only for only questions, not affirmative sentences)
It’s normal to experience some degree of stress or disorientation when
you’re coming down from the high of vacation.
Il est normal de vivre un certain degré de stress ou de désorientation lorsque
vous descendez or revenez du sommet des vacances.
Is "sommet des vacances" = the high of vacation?
But the problem isn’t taking vacation in the first
place — it’s your approach to it.
Mais le
problème n’est pas de prendre des vacances en
premier lieu or d'abord : c’est votre conception des
vacances.
For this one, there is an external intervention. The
"and" which is within brackets is not in the original speech. Can I
do that in French?
"The return to the faster pace of life, the work that has piled up,
the responsibilities, and the backlog of ‘to-dos’ often creates a sense of
anxiety, dread, [and] even sadness that can cancel out the very benefits of the
vacation a person has just taken," he said.
« Le retour
à un rythme de vie plus rapide, le travail qui s’est accumulé, les
responsabilités et l’arriéré de « tâches à faire » créent souvent un
sentiment d’anxiété, de crainte [et] même de tristesse qui peut annuler les avantages mêmes des vacances
qu’une personne vient de prendre », a-t-il dit.
The lesson appears to focus on making a distinction between use of trouver (to find something) and trouver que (to think something). Yet in the examples the previously mentioned translation (post about a year ago) of the above remains 'he finds' not 'he thinks' and in a dashboard test today "Ils me trouvent charmant"and "Ils me trouvent que ...." were both given as being "they find me charming". Either there is a clear distinction between the 2 forms or there is not. At present the lesson quite clearly makes the case there is but the discordant examples and test answers are confusing. Edit required.
Hi Dear kwiziqians,
The below English texts have below them their translations, which have two "fonts" : Italic and Bold.
Would you mind telling me which translations are correct between the italic and bold translations?
Why You Feel So Stressed Out After a Vacation
La raison pour laquelle vous vous sentez si stressé après des vacances or Pourquoi vous vous sentez si stressé après des vacances ( I don't think that this is normal because "pourquoi" is used only for only questions, not affirmative sentences)
It’s normal to experience some degree of stress or disorientation when you’re coming down from the high of vacation.
Il est normal de vivre un certain degré de stress ou de désorientation lorsque vous descendez or revenez du sommet des vacances.
Is "sommet des vacances" = the high of vacation?
But the problem isn’t taking vacation in the first place — it’s your approach to it.
Mais le problème n’est pas de prendre des vacances en premier lieu or d'abord : c’est votre conception des vacances.
For this one, there is an external intervention. The "and" which is within brackets is not in the original speech. Can I do that in French?
"The return to the faster pace of life, the work that has piled up, the responsibilities, and the backlog of ‘to-dos’ often creates a sense of anxiety, dread, [and] even sadness that can cancel out the very benefits of the vacation a person has just taken," he said.
« Le retour à un rythme de vie plus rapide, le travail qui s’est accumulé, les responsabilités et l’arriéré de « tâches à faire » créent souvent un sentiment d’anxiété, de crainte [et] même de tristesse qui peut annuler les avantages mêmes des vacances qu’une personne vient de prendre », a-t-il dit.
Pourqui "funérailles " à place de "funéraire "?
Rien de tel qu’un bon repas après tous ces efforts !
Could this be homonymically rendered :
Rien de tel qu’un bon repas après tous ses efforts ! meaning after ones efforts
I thought when être was followed by a noun or pronoun the subject would be c’est, like c’est mon fils or c’est la mienne. Isn’t celui also a pronoun? Is it because il is also the subject of the verb manger?
The suggested answer is "nos", and my answer "ses" was marked wrong. I understand the underlying rule. However, in this case it feels really odd to say "chacun nos provisions"... Is this really natural in French? Is "chacun ses provisions" really wrong in this particular phrase?
Why is the "best answer" given as suer but the final para uses transpirer?
Hi Dear Folk,
Do you how to say, "the very benefits" in French?
Of the bellow translation, which is the appopriate translation of "According to the 2017 State of American Vacation study"?
Selon l’étude sur l’état des vacances aux États-Unis de 2017 or Selon l'étude menée en 2017 sur l'état des vacances en Amérique.
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