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In this paragraph, the English sentence was "My CV SPOKE for itself" but the French was in the present tense. Mon CV parle de lui-même. Is this a mistake or am I missing something?
I find the Q&A at the bottom of each lesson almost impossible to follow.
It's hard to work out who's asking a question, or who's responding.
Some colour or additional formatting would make this area a lot more useful.
I selected "pour" yet the answer also included pendant/durant. My understanding is that the latter has to specify a time duration. But this statement doesn't. Can you explain why it can be considered a correct way to translate the sentence? Thanks. Valerie
in the beginning of the text, could you not say, 'Je travaillais pour une organisation internationale'? it goes on say 'développions' rather than 'nous avons dévelopé...
In test answer "Ces leçons ont permis à Fred d'améliorer son français" why is the à and the d' doing?
I used ‘en dessous de (la table)’ . Can someone explain why that is wrong?
I'm still somehow confused on when to use des vs. les. For example, in the translation exercises,
"and boys can play with dolls" is translated to "et les garçons peuvent jouer avec des poupées".
But I thought it should be LES poupées because it's referring to dolls (in general). Is this a case of either one working?
Why is it "pas le monnaie" and not "pas de monnaie"??
Again, the use of little words like "bien" and "tout" are common in French and not direct translations from English. A unit explaining the uses of these two simple words would be really helpful.
"Il a bien compris." "Il a tout compris." "J'en ai bien envie." "Elle est tout heureuse." "Il y a bien de choses." "Il est a des kilometres de toute trace de civilisation."
Not trying to be a pest, but I would really like to master these simple little words and phrases to feel closer to fluent. Thanks.
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