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Matthew C.C1Kwiziq community member

Translating part of the name of a street?I’m very confused by this. It would seem very odd to me to if, when talking in English about a street in France, someone would translate “J’habite rue Pasteur.” to “I live on Pasteur Street.” or “I live on Pasteur Road.”. I would expect that they would either leave “rue Pasteur” as it is and say “I live on rue Pasteur.” or, perhaps more likely, captalize the “rue” and say “I live on Rue Pasteur.”. Similarly, I would not expect someone who lived in, say, London, when speaking French, to say something like “J’habite rue Baker.”, I’d expect something more like “J’habite Baker Street.”. In all cases, I’d expect the full name of the street (“rue Pasteur”, “Baker Street”, etc.) to be preserved in translation. I am often shocked at how much people are willing to mangle names of all kinds when using a language different to that from which the name originated, though Kwiziq usually manages to avoid doing so. A quick look at the French and English Wikipedia articles for some notable streets seems to back up my initial thoughts. I was wondering whether to report this as an issue, but I am not quite confident enough to say that Kwiziq is definitely wrong here.

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Susan R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Deux plus deux égale quatre/deux plus deux égalent quatre: are both correct?

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sue c.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

why does the score not increase after a correct micro-quiz

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sue c.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

je vais dans ma chambreif I want to say I am going to my room, my office, the kitchen. but not going in to it, how would I write it differently than I am going into my room. thank you

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M. K.C1Kwiziq community member

Could you explain when you would use en + le gérondif as opposed to tout en + le gérondif? Thanks!

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Barbara A.C1Kwiziq community member

I would like to ditch the n'expletif if we don't use in conversation

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J H.C1Kwiziq community member

It asked two questions, I got both correct. Why does this say I'm at 41%?

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Joakim R.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Puisque /parce queIn writing challenge A2 week 49 (?late March 2017) it says: - They're very expensive, these phones! - Yes, granny but it's because you can go on the internet --> Oui, mamie. mais c'est parce qu'on peut aller sur internet. Since mamie already knows the phones are expensive, shouldn't it be "puisqu'on peut" ?

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William C.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Late or early in FrenchWhat is used most often in French, the “être” expression or the “avoir” expression? The “avoir” expression sounds like an intangible expression of quantity, j’ai deux bouteilles de lait mais j’ai deux heures de retard ou deux heures d’avance.

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Michael D.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

'tout' (everything) vs 'tous' or 'toutes' (all of them)'Tout' ('too') means 'everything, and its pronunciation must be distinguished from: 'Tous' ('toos') and 'toutes' ('toot') mean all of them. With these ('all of them') Here, there are 2 cases: 1. when used as the noun: (tous etaient content - all of them were happy-'toos'); 2. when used as an adjective of the noun 'they' (as in 'they all' or 'they were ll'): (ils etaient tous content - they were all happy - 'too') The weird one is 'ils l'ont tous eu' - they all passed - by the rule 'tous' should be pronounced 'too', but is pronounced 'toos' because of liaison. Is this correct?

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