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"les vêtements colorés"

"des vêtements sombre"

I don't get the difference.

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Could someone explain the use of the definite article "les" before "deux tiers" in the following example from this lesson:

Les invités ont mangé les deux tiers du gâteau.  The guests have eaten 2/3 of the cake.

Thank you.

I think there may be a problem on your end here with the technology.  It has been very difficult to advance to the next sentence in the dictation, as it seems the system is "stuck."  Please look into this matter.  Thank you.

This distinction, as explained, is very tricky for me. I don't grasp the difference in meaning.  Oh well....

Could you use "une petite pause" instead of "Prendre le goûter ?

I had trouble understanding the phrasing of two sentences so it was hard to translate.

What does  "Favour the water bath" mean?

And in "Add an egg yolk to the chocolate and cream mix" shouldn't it be "chocolate and cream mixture" or "chocolate-cream mixture". It could be me, but I thought cream mix was a demand to beat the batter when I read it, or mix even sounded like a premade mixture like cake mix. 

In the third sentence of both the English & French text, after the second phrase (I stay at home & je reste chez moi) there is no comma. The way it is written it would sound like a run-on sentence.

Not sure why - it does not seem a particularly unusual word to use in this context ?

It is interesting just how many words French has for 'annoying'!