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It cuts out mid-way through.
I think there may be a problem on your end here with the technology. It has been very difficult to advance to the next sentence in the dictation, as it seems the system is "stuck." Please look into this matter. Thank you.
Je cherche mon dictionnaire!
I've been struggling with this lesson for a while now and keep getting the answers wrong in tests. I think I have it now but the additional research I've had to do suggests there are issues with this lesson.
(1) The heading is a bit misleading, causing me to think for a long time that "if" made the phrase conditional, whereas of course it's "would" that does that. This caused me to think the phrase order was "Si [le conditionnel] (then) [L'imparfait]", whereas it's the opposite for most of the examples. The true order, I realise know, is "Si [l'imparfait] (then) [le conditionnel]", or "[le conditionnel], si [l'imparfait]".
(2) More importantly, the lesson does not mention that the tense of the "if" phrase can vary depending on the likelihood of the "result" phrase. This lesson is focused only on the unlikely outcome and does not discuss or even mention the likely or impossible outcomes as far as I can see. Is there a reason for this?
I found that the sound quality on this recording was really terrible, there's an echo that made it really difficult to make out what the speaker was saying, so I abandoned it.
In each of the above sentence,
future time is indicated using - ce soir, dans duex secondes, tout de suite, plus tard, à dix heures demain matin, demain, dans une heure
And the context is implied in present tense.
What are these future time phrases called ? And where can i find more examples? Can someone share a lawless blog link?
A post further down says "soit..soit is used when followed by anything other than a verb". I’ve just done a quiz elsewhere where the answer they wanted was "Soit tu mets du déodorant, soit je te quitte"! Is this a usage that exists but isn’t good French? If so, what’s a better way to express it? I can’t imagine "soit que" is very common and "que" + subjunctive verb seems to be a yes/no situation (eg que tu le mettes ou pas) rather than offering two alternative verbs.
Thank you.
About 'face the facts', is it also correct to translate it as ' faire face aux réalités'.
I think 'faire face à ' is a very common expression.
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