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Andrea N.B2Kwiziq community member
Are a) and or b) correct? If not why?

a) Je dormais quand tu m'as interrompu OR b) J'étais dormir quand tu... In sentence b) is être redundant as the verb dormir can be used?  

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Claudia A.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Feminine participle

Bonjour

In the video we have J'ai recu les lettres. Why then do we say Je les ai recues.  ? Recevoir is is a verbe d'etat?

Merci

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Kathleen P.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
il y a à peine trois mois

i cannot hear "il y a" in this sentence at all.

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Park J.A0Kwiziq community member
This is about 'on y va'

I have a lot of trouble with french because i directly translate the English. So i wanted to know if "on y va" can also be used for something like, "let's do it" or "let's get started". Or is it just for "let's go somewhere" like a place?

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Audio rewind very much needed

Hi, a “rewind 10 seconds”, or something similar, would add great value to this exercise type. Currently, I need to re-listen to the whole audio just to try to catch a single word I’ve missed (and I need to do this many times).

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Lucille H.C1Kwiziq community member
"Pour prendre le goûter"

Hi, 


In the line "pour prendre le goûter", you cannot hear "pour" being said and it seems like it starts on "prendre". Can this be fixed please?

Thank you,

Lucille

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Shrey R.A1Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Un jeune sauveteur (A2)

Bonjour Madame Cécile !

I wanted to ask a query I came up while attempting this dictée ->

“Par chance, personne n'a été blessé” 

Madame, why has the verb “être” been conjugated in Le Passé Composé ? However, Être is a verb of state and generally takes L’Imparfait.

Now, Madame, if a sentence is given -> The film was great.

There are two possibilities-       

1. Le film a été merveilleux. 2. Le film était merveilleux. 

How to judge whether a Verb of State takes Passé Composé / Imparfait ?

Merci encore Madame pour votre aide.

Je vous souhaite une bonne journée!

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Brian E.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
We really need a “rewind 10 seconds” button

To avoid having listening to the whole segment again just to try to catch the syllable or two that you can’t quite get. Maybe upload these to YouTube, which provides this function natively. 

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nicole r.A2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Why not use sur?

Bonjour, 

Hello I was wondering for one of your example sentences you use le  not sur why not sur?

On aime aller se  balader  le weekend.

Thanks

Nicole

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Hillary H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
I love the internet because it's extraordinary!

I used "car" for "because" and it was marked wrong.  Is there a certain situation we need to use "parce que" instead of "car"?

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