French language Q&A Forum

Bonjour! 

I love these listening and writing exercises. I have noticed two areas of growth: 1.) my listening comprehension is improving, in that I don't have to listen multiple times to a phrase, and 2.) I used to focus on big mistakes, like writing the wrong word. Now, I find that I can focus on more detailed areas, such as accents and minor spelling errors. Because Kwizboth shows all errors, I get to focus on those that are most relevant to me at the time. And, I DO sometimes give myself 5 stars, when my responses are close, but not perfect. Merci!

Why is it “Ça fait longtemps qu’elle en rêve”, in the present tense, and not either le passé composé (en a rêvé) or L’imparfait (en rêvait) ?

Elsa gave her little brother his toy back. -> Kwiziq answer

Could this also be translated as "Elsa gave her toy back to her little brother"? How do you know who the toy belongs to?

Thanks

I carried out a test where I entered the complete text word by word until it was fully typed. I didn’t make any mistakes during the process, as I wanted to understand how the scoring system worked. However, even after completing it correctly, I still received a score of 0 out of 60. Could you please explain to me in more detail how the scoring works?

Why is j’ai de la farine correct when je n’ai plus de farine is also correct? Ie why is de la farine correct in the first sentence (per my last quiz?)

Same  question: you have a word for female acteur: actrice, so the correct answer here is Michael is speaking: je suis acteur, but you have a word for a female professeur (namely, professeure) so why is the correct answer not Leon to the question who is speaking " je suis professeur" 

Why is the correct answer: either male or female? The lesson says this:

Mon professeur Bruno et ma professeure Sarah sont gentils

So why is the answer to: "Je suis professeur" not "Leon", why do you say that it could be either?

thanks 

Hi! Why are the dashboard and Brainmap not updating after the system upgrade yesterday?

The quiz response was, "vous avez", but every other translation engine I have used says that "vous êtes" is correct.  That would seem correct as the verb has no direct object (I don't think "the stairs" is a direct object).

Can you explain?

In the sentence, "She had to remain suspended in mid-air for a few hours...", I normally translate 'a few' by 'quelques'.  This was marked incorrect in favor of 'plusieurs', which I normally translate as 'several'.  Can you explain why 'quelques' is incorrect?