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Derek J.C1Kwiziq community member
My question is: when does one use 'juste' in front of 'au cas où' and when is 'au cas où' used by itself?
Asked 4 years ago
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Mary S.B2Kwiziq community member
Isn’t it pas de confiture, after a negative? Not pas de la confiture
Asked 7 years ago
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Maria G.A1Kwiziq community member
Promener- to walkWhy the use of promener (to walk) in the sentence below! This is confusing.

Parfois, je prends la voiture juste pour me promener dans la campagne. 

Asked 5 years ago
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Norma K.B1Kwiziq community member
hair style

how do you say to layer the hair? 

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Ann H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Some hyphenated words have agreement with their parts and others do not seem too. Is there a way to know when they do and don't. Example here:

2 allers-retours. But grand-mère, not grande-mère.

Asked 7 years ago
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APOSTOLOS K.C1Kwiziq community member
le/la tour

Salute,

Recently I came across with the phrase le tour de magie, here tour is meaning trick, is that right? Would it be useful to include this meaning as well at this lesson?

Bonsoir

Asked 4 years ago
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U. B.B2Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Je prends toujours des lasagnes

Why is it “des lasagnes’ and not “de lasagne”? Presumably I would only take one order of lasagne? 

Or is it that it could be either ( which of course if it could, if I am super hungry) and the more important thing is that I can hear the difference between “des” and “de”, since it is a listening exercise? 

Thanks.

Asked 6 years ago
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Ian R.B1Kwiziq community member
French isn't easy......

A little bit to fast for me. I'm (probably) A2 - ie, not quite at the dizzy heights of B1 (That seems to be an impossible dream at the moment).

Having read the transcript and read the translation, I was able to follow most (70%) of what the narrator was saying.

I thought French was supposed to be easy! (It isn't).

I'm killing myself trying to learn it. I'm a doctor and supposed to be smart but French is the hardest thing I've ever done....

HELP!

Asked 3 years ago
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Mohit A.C1Kwiziq community member
Can this sentence "C'était la dernière fois que tu m'as dit que tu m'aimais." be translated in 2 ways?

According to the article, to express the previous time - we could use la dernière fois + the clause of the sentence. (la dernière fois is used interchangeably with la fois dernière if without a clause)

We can also use the same to express the last (final) time - la dernière fois + the clause.

How do I know which one this refers to? It could mean both the final time, or the previous time in the above sentence. 

Asked 3 years ago
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H K.C1Kwiziq community member
Speed of Talking

Is this speed of talking really normal? Is this a good way of testing listening skills at B1 level.

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