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Could the following phrase given above:
Merci à Léa et Julie, sans l'aide desquelles rien n'aurait été possible
also be phrased as:
Merci à Léa et Julie, sans desquelles rien n'aurait pu etre possible
According to https://www.lawlessfrench.com/subjunctivisor/considerer/ this should not be subjunctive. (Strictly speaking)
I am presuming the use of subjunctive here is that the speaker is willing to allow some doubt into her suggestion ? I.e. that She accepts her opinion may not be correct, or that the point is debatable ?
Paul.
-> Please ignore this question, I can't delete it now, I think it's actually "le meilleur roman qui" which means the subjunctive is used in this context. Does that sound like the correct answer ?
In the third line of the dialog, if using inversion "Savez-vous à quelle heure nous atterrissons?", the audio in the exercise has several extra words that do not match the text. I can't remember exactly what they were but at the beginning it says "Pascal", like there were cues for the dialog that were being read as the dialog.
For in countries/cities, I always thought it was either "à" (usually for cities, except for a small number of cases e.g. au Canada, au Japon), and "en" for countries.
E.g. J'habite à Melbourne.
J'habite en Australie.
However the above example says j'habite DANS le Yorkshire... how can you live INSIDE a place?
The recording of the full lesson is not complete.
There should be a way to speed up or slow down the audio
does it mean "but it didn't depend on my fabulous boyfriend?" it just sounds a little weird...
I keep pressing submit answer when I really mean to press play again so end up submitting no answer but can’t go back to the previous stage or start the exercise again. It would be easier if the play button was at the bottom. I’m using an iPad.
The pronunciation is taken for granted in this lesson. It should be included.
Why the n in n'arrive? Does this not now translate as 'before it happened'?
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