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It would be great if a translation appears too! I have to use a translator to get an idea of what the words mean in context and its not always accurate or reliable.
What is the role of 'd'ailleurs' in the above sentence? I am guessing it means 'anyway'. Thanks
I can't speak for the other English speakers around the world, but as a native-born & bred Yank I can tell you that the word "whom" is almost nonexistent in American English. About the only places you will see or hear this in the States is in literature, academia, formal correspondence or maybe in the entertainment or news media. The reality is that Americans overwhelmingly use "who" in all of these cases to the extent that it is the accepted norm (even though it may drive the English professors crazy).
What's the difference between the locations that can have preceding articles and those that can't?
One of the question for this lesson was "During World War II, Charles de Gaulle was the architect of France's liberation."
May I ask by what wild stretch of the imagination could this be even remotely factual?
He was far more of a hindrance than a help.
It was the British and Americans who liberated France. All De Gaulle did was continually get in the way and create unnecessary problems.
He was nothing more than a self serving politician who ran away to hide in Algiers when the going got tough.
When learning a foreign language, I believe it is important to get the history of that country right.
Totally bizarre!
Think I might just go back to A2!
In the last sentence, "Et vous, comment s'est passé votre Noël cette année ?" If vous is the subject, shouldn't the verb be, vous etiez passé. How come it switches to 3rd person?
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