French language Q&A Forum

Hello all,

I'm just in communication with support at the moment and I'm starting to think I dreamt up something. A while ago does anyone remember there being a listening practice history whenever you entered a listening lesson that you have already done. You used to get the date you did it plus the score you gave yourself. Anyone remember?

Many thanks

Martin
PS. Else I think I'm going mad!

This exercise was a good learning experience.

Would "... dans un tel chic restaurant ?" work as well ?

Also, I wrote: "Il se revele que son pere est le gerant de ce restaurant." rather than, "il s'avere que..." 

According to Collins, "ll s'est revele que..." = "It turned out that..."; 

and, "s'averer" = "to prove to be"

"Ce veloute de champignons semble divin." Is using, "semble" in place of "a l'air" equally acceptable?

New Vocabulary:

How did I not know that "un tourte" is for a vegetable pie, (une tarte for a fruit pie)? But, there it is!  And, now I know. Merci !

Couldn't find "pithviers" anywhere so assume it is another word for "un tourtre"

"perdrix" and "perveau"  "Un pithiviers de perdreau" sounds like it is right out of a nursery rhyme!

Je vous remercie pour cet exercice, et maintenant j'ai l'eau a la bouche !

This lesson needs some real sentences to demonstrate how to use the expressions.

Example "Add a liter and a half of water" = Ajouter un LITRE et demi d’eau" but "Add a liter and a third  of water" == "Ajouter un litre et UN tiers d'eau".  Sentences along these lines. I apologize if there is another lesson showing this. If there is it should be linked.  Note also I am confused by the inconsistency of online translators with the above examples..

Additional difficult sentences " One third of  students had a passing grade" == "Un tiers des étudiants ont obtenu une note de passage" OR " Un tiers des étudiants A obtenu une note de passage"??? I have seen both.

Why do you say mangées and not mangé, since it's "Anne a mangé"?

Thanks in advance:)

Really don't understand why the waterpolo is faire du versus jouer au. There is a ball involved, n'est pas?

I believe that “I arrived the day he left” refers to a non-specific timeframe and therefore should use the feminine form, but it was marked wrong on my test and the masculine “la jour” was said to be correct instead. Can someone explain to me why this would be the case, or if it’s an error?

Hi! Thanks for the exercise! The audio for ¨traverse le village¨ sounds very much like ¨traverse sur le village¨ - or maybe it just sounds like that to me.

Also, the ¨le maire¨ hint, I think, belongs on the audio section before where it is currently located.

Bonjour

Can one as an alternative to "deux sucettes au caramel" write "deux sucettes caramélisées"? This is in line with phrases like "porc salé" and "bouillon aromatisé".

Or, does "deux sucettes au caramel" imply lollipops that contain pieces of caramel compared to "deux sucettes caramélisées" that implies lollipops with a caramel flavour?

Can you explain grammatically the construction if this phrase?  I get that it means "we got home from school", but it seems unnecessarily complicated.  Could you not say "nous étions retourné de l'école"?