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BUT HOW TO IDENTIFY WORDS WITH L' ARTICLE , example: l'animal (animal)  is masculine,  and l'armoire (wardrobe) is feminine,  and l'assiette (plate) is masculine ????

1 - Il y a bien longtemps 

2- Il y a longtemps

What is the difference between these two sentences ?!

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I chose the c-with-cedille for the beginning of the fourth sentence, but I wasn't able to figure out how to make it capitalized (thus I got it wrong because it wasn't capitalized). How can one do that ?

Hi! Just a quick question, the play head doesn't allow me to go back or move forward as in if I wanted to play back or listen again to only a certain part of the exercise/story. And I have to listen to the whole thing again, for just one small part. Is this something that is intentional or an oversight? thank you  

Bonjour. I am guessing that using sortir for the release of a film is an exception to the rule. It appears to me that the example provided does contain a direct object immediately following the verb: "Le nouveau James Bond est sorti la semaine dernière." i.e. "la semaine".

I'm curious to know why it's not "J'ai besoin DU temps pour réfléchir" in this sentence?  What happens to the definite article "le" for temps?

why is 'écossais[e]" the only nationality not capitalized?

Faillir de (rater, for example) is being used.  I have no problem with this usage, but wonder why presque is not used at all  -- e.g., j'ai presque rate as an alternative to j'ai failli rate.  Just curious.  Thanks!