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    Sounds like she probably told you that it was going to cost 1 dollar extra. That kind of thing usually happens when you make subsitutions or upgrades in restaurants.
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    May 24, 2017
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    Hi Claudia, Here's some quick corrections: Her house WAS infested with mold. > While infest can be use as a verb, the past participle is more commonly used as an adjective. We had to step gingerly, hugging our bags to our (respective) chests. > A couple grammar errors. Additionally, respective can be used here, but it is not necessary as one would never really hug their bag to someone else's chest. I hope all of this makes sense! Let me know if you need more help. :)
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    March 29, 2017
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    " is used to refer to inches while ' is used to refer to feet. For example, I'm five feet eight inches tall, which is often written as 5'8". Hope this helps!
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    March 17, 2017
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    Alors, l'accent peut rendre difficile la compréhension et la prononciation en même temps. 

    Concernant la compréhension, je trouve la rapidité avec laquelle les québécois parlent super frustrante. Je suis même la fille d'un père bilingue et j'ai des difficultés à comprendre ce qu'ils disent parfois. Il existe aussi quelques contractions linguistiques que l'on utilise seulement en parlant. Par exemple: très souvent, il devient y (il fait > y fait).

    Au sujet de la prononciation, il faut être capable de naviguer ces nuances subtiles et aussi les caractéristiques les plus extrêmes de l'accent. La plupart des étudiants se mettent à répliquer les voyelles caractéristiques du français québécois, mais ils ignorent les consonnes, qui sont uniquement canadiennes. Pour commencer, je recommanderais rechercher les t's et les d's. En bref:

    t > ts ... la tsempérature
    d > dz ... la dzétéctive

    La plupart des différences entre le français québécois et des autres dialectes européens sont reléguées à la conversation, alors, ne t'inquiète pas de l'écriture. Bonne chance à toi avec tes aventures de français!!

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    March 10, 2017
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    En français:

    No longer ... 
    Je ne [verb] plus .... ex.
    Je ne mange plus les pommes. (I don't eat apples anymore or I no longer eat apples)
    C'est encore la même chose avec elle: Elle ne [verb] plus .... 

    Either ... or
    Je ne [verb] ni [verb] .... ex.
    Je ne mange les pommes ni les oranges. (I don't eat either apples or oranges)

    Neither ... nor
    Ni [noun] ni [noun] .... ex.
    Ni les pommes ni les oranges sont délicieuses. (Neither apples nor oranges are delicious)


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    March 10, 2017
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     I grew up learning both English and French at the same time. I think they're a really good combination, if you're going to learn two languages at the same time. There are plenty of cognates, use the same alphabet and are relatively similar with respect to sentence structure. That being said, they're not so similar that you're going to confuse the two when speaking. Learning as a child, however, I found that I was never really fluent in either one. I always say that my first language is "Franglais," as we call it here in Canada.

    In my experience, learning two languages at the same time as an adult is completely doable if you're willing to dedicate and immerse yourself. Just keep in mind that it's probably going to take you a much longer time to reach a certain level of fluency in either one.

    Best of luck!

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    March 10, 2017
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    Totally acceptable! And often used by native speakers.
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    March 2, 2017
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    It means you've seen something you know isn't permitted, but you are going to act as if you never saw it, or it didn't happen. In the example you've given, "the boss turns a blind eye to smoking," it means that the boss is aware that people are smoking where or when they shouldn't be, but is allowing it to happen anyways.
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    March 2, 2017
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    I would say, "If you could choose not to have been born, would you?"'
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    February 27, 2017
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    In my experience, there can be different acceptable pronunciations of the letter e in many cases. If an e is marked with an accent, this is usually how it MUST be pronounced to be considered correct. However, if the e is unmarked, there is a little room for flexibility. Some very common words have unmarked e's, but are pronounced as if they were accented. Consider: descendre is more commonly pronounced as déscendre, depending on the dialect of French. Another example is the various conjugations of espérer. I've heard j'espère pronounced as it's written as well as as if it were written j'éspère. Many of the stem-changing verbs that require either the addition of an accent grave upon conjugation (acheter > j'achète) or will require an accent aigu to be changed to a grave upon conjugation (préférer > je préfère) are subject to this kind of flexibility. All in all, French is not a phonetic language; learning proper pronunciation is a matter of continuous exposure to the language. This will help you learn the little unwritten nuances that most native speakers have. Hope this helps!
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    February 27, 2017
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