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 Hi Dear kwiziqians,

The below English texts have below them their translations, which have two "fonts" : Italic and Bold.

Would you mind telling me which translations are correct between the italic and bold translations?

Why You Feel So Stressed Out After a Vacation

La raison pour laquelle vous vous sentez si stressé après des vacances or Pourquoi vous vous sentez si stressé après des vacances ( I don't think that this is normal because "pourquoi" is used only for only questions, not affirmative sentences)

It’s normal to experience some degree of stress or disorientation when you’re coming down from the high of vacation.

Il est normal de vivre un certain degré de stress ou de désorientation lorsque vous descendez or revenez du sommet des vacances.

Is "sommet des vacances" =  the high of vacation?

But the problem isn’t taking vacation in the first place — it’s your approach to it.

Mais le problème n’est pas de prendre des vacances en premier lieu or d'abord : c’est votre conception des vacances.

For this one, there is an external intervention. The "and" which is within brackets is not in the original speech. Can I do that in French?

"The return to the faster pace of life, the work that has piled up, the responsibilities, and the backlog of ‘to-dos’ often creates a sense of anxiety, dread, [and] even sadness that can cancel out the very benefits of the vacation a person has just taken," he said.

« Le retour à un rythme de vie plus rapide, le travail qui s’est accumulé, les responsabilités et l’arriéré de « tâches à faire » créent souvent un sentiment d’anxiété, de crainte [et] même de tristesse qui peut annuler les avantages mêmes des vacances qu’une personne vient de prendre », a-t-il dit.

Bonjour Madame !

In the sentence of the lesson -J’ai un chien et une chienne. The audio speaks “shienn” for both words although ‘chien’ is spoken as ‘shian’ with a nasal sound I recall .

Also ‘et’ is not clear to me . Maybe because I am not a native speaker. Please clarify.

Merci d’avance !

For

J'ai eu peur que nous ________ trop tard

I answered "ne soyons arrivés" but this was marked wrong. "Soyons arrivés" was given as corrrect.

Am I missing something with the expletive "ne" (which I do find a bit confusing!)  Could you explain?

Thanks in advance,

Ian

Pourquoi utilise-t-on le singulier pour traduire "in the mountains" mais le pluriel pour traduire "in the Alpes" alors que les deux sont pluriels en anglais? 

"je trouve difficile de m'adapter" couldn't  " j'ai du mal à m'adapter" be used: 

Also "se confondre" used for "get oneself into a muddle".

I believe the correct English spelling is "eccentricity", not "excentricity", at least according to my New Oxford American Dictionary, as well as this website's spell-checker.

Walter B.

I am finding this one tricky, because in Québec (where I am living and learning French), professeure is standard (and indeed, is my job title). Is there any way to account for or acknowledge regional differences in spelling and usage within Kwiziq?