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With respect, I think that this lesson fails to make a clear distinction between the many different ways of using "to miss" and "missing" in English and "manquer" and "rater" in French. I suggest that the lesson be broken down and recreated as several lessons, each with a clear learning objective. 

Il me semble un peu injuste de ne pas offrir les chiffres écrits en mots comme option.

When is enfin used instead of finalement?

Bonjour,

In one of the questions, ""Il a huit amis, dont cinq sont anglais", I see "sont" being used. But in all the examples in this lesson, no verbs are used in the "dont" clause. 

Can I then also say, ""Il a huit amis, dont cinq anglais" ? Could someone clairfy?

Merci.

'la maison de poupées' is NOT 'the doll's house'.  It is 'the dolls house' or, more pedantically 'the dolls' house'

More on in line.. accepted that Americans call a queue a line but in ordinary English, standing in a line is a common enough thing to do without being anywhere near a queue so maybe need to accept en ligne as well.

In the lesson where you have the example to hand, there is a clue but not in general Kwizes.

Hi.  The lesson is correct but fails to really make the point that the construct "manque à" should not be used with indirect objects.  There are numerous online aides that will accept (or even suggest) "manque à lui", so trying to get clarity by searching the web does not help (in fact it hurts).  Please make the lesson clearer by including a negative example, such as "Note that ... manque à lui ... is not correct usage.  Indirect objects come before the verb.  Nouns may come after the verb using the construct "manque à".  I had to work way too hard to finally understand the rules.  The lesson is correct but does not explicitly exclude using the indirect object after the verb.