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I cannot hear "qui"
The directions tell us that the narrator has a typical accent from Marseille. I had no problem understanding him, with the exception of the final phrase: "surtout quand on joue contre Paris." With the liaison, the word "on" sounds like "tous/tout" or even possibly "tu" but certainly not the standard pronunciation of "on". I wanted to write "on" since that made more sense, but went with "tous", which of course was wrong. (I knew that if I wrote "on" and it was correct, that I would be less likely to remember than if I wrote the wrong word.)
My question: Was this a mispronunciation of "on" or is this an example of the Marseille accent?
Merci
Hello. Is there a difference between using des and les in the above expression? Faire les courses was marked wrong in this exercise.
Why is it "Elle a monté" instead of "Elle est montée"?
Cette argile is corrected to Cet argile yet argile is listed as feminine in the dictionary.
Hello,
As I read this sentence over and over again I think their is a word missing at the end.
Les garçons ont passé leur examen et tous l'ont eu. Shouldn't the word passé be at the end of eu?
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Nicole
By the way, we would never say “At the Doctor”. It’s always “At the Doctor‘s”. This is short for “At the Doctor’s surgery”, although this expanded form is rarely said. So we would say “I’m going to the Doctor’s”, “I’m at the Doctor’s”, and so on. We can, however, use “Doctor” without the possessive with the statement “I’m going to see the Doctor”. Also, it’s worth mentioning that a surgery, in this context, is more-or-less an office and not anything like an operating theatre.
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