French language Q&A Forum

The object will be singular following a negation. In this case the object is the `sa collection. But a collection is inherently plural ins de jardin rather than nain de jardin. but why is the collection de nains and not des nains?

Can I say "y compris" instead of parmi lesquells or dont to translate including?

Given the English sentence to translate, can I say:

...il m'a révélé ce qui lui était arrivé en France

 I’m confused. The lesson states:

“To express lacking [something], you use:

As you're literally saying I lack of [something], you never use partitive articles (du, de l', de la, des) here; i.e., Je manque du sucre.”           

So why not “Je manque de sucre?” The answer directly contradicts the Green highlighted guidance.

Why was I marked wrong on a quiz for including "quel est un pain au chocolat" in ways to say what is a pain au chocolat? 

Not a great lesson. This lesson is to Conjugate acquérir and other irregular -QUÉRIR verbs but it does not tell us how to pronounce acquérir or any of the other -QUÉRIR verbs (in their infinitive) form, which of course would be widely used.

As usual with so many lessons, much screen space is wasted with the bold ‘Learn how to conjugate blah blah…@ when blah blah is spelt out 5 CMs above. That’s pointless. As are the coloured lines, which should be used to show which elements of text relate to which other elements of text , i.e. which explanation pertains to which example but instead they are as good as random.

This lesson does at least give us the English translation of the verb in question which some do not.

So…. May I please suggest that you have the following as standards for setting out these ‘Quick lessons’.

  1Don’t ever waste screen space (and us leaner’s time) with the bold ‘learn how to… Portion. When it has already been said above.

2.       2Always give the English translation of the word in question.... and any other examples

3.       3When teaching the specifics of any word please give us the pronunciation of that word.

4.       4When listing other verbs as examples of those, which conjugate the same etc., please give those pronunciations.

I hope you take this criticism in the positive way it is meant. I like KWIZIQ and would recommend it but your quick lessons do sometimes fail to hit the mark.

Cet exercice m’a pris deux fois plus de temps que d’habitude, mais j’ai appris beaucoup de vocabulaire et d’expressions qui me seront très utiles dans les conversations quotidiennes. Merci!