Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Retourner belongs to a small group of verbs that can take BOTH avoir and être depending on the context. For example:

I returned (home)
Je suis retourné (chez moi)

I returned the book
J'ai retourné le livre

Because in your example retourner has a direct object then avoir is used in this context so the translation of "the book was returned by Paul" is:
Le livre a été retourné par Paul

This article explains it quite well
http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/etreverbs_3.htm

Followed you too!

Anyone else here?

Is the speech for Italian crap on yours too?

I like MFL teachers... They appreciate linguists...

Any Italian learners here?

After all this talk about it, *je pense que je devrais obtenir Duolingo

IYes! I was doing the 'unlocking all levels' feature and I literally couldn't understand half of what was being said Maybe it's because it's the Beta version...



Me too!! All of my MFL teachers are really nice!! (saying that, a majority of teachers at my school are nice)

I couldn't unlock the levels because I couldn't understand the bloody woman!

I've looked at that before too, d'oh! (I couldn't think of a decent example to explain my confusion).
But I've got it now! It's hard to explain why I was confused, but I get it now, 'être' is conjugated according to the tense.

I followed everyone from here that I know of



Yes! I was doing the 'unlocking all levels' feature and I literally couldn't understand half of what was being said Maybe it's because it's the Beta version...



Me too!! All of my MFL teachers are really nice!! (saying that, a majority of teachers at my school are nice)



Me!! I just finished the GCSE, starting the A-Level next year



Oui! Duolingo est genial! You'll have to tell us what your name is

Is it really that bad? Not speaking Italian, I wouldn't know, but....


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It's muffled, she makes weird noises and it's just crap

I see what you mean now :-)


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French and Spanish are a okay!

Portuguese is weird too

I don't do Portuguese - only French, Spanish, German and Italian :-)


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I couldn't unlock the levels because I couldn't understand the bloody woman!

Is Italian the beta version? I tried using Duolingo a few months ago but remember finding the woman impossible to understand, I never realised it wasn't the final version though

Portuguese is weird too

It took me nearly all of my allowed attempts to do it It's really computerised- like the Welsh Google Translate voice!!



Yeah, it is. Hopefully they'll manage to develop a proper version soon!!



Probably because Portuguese is the Beta version too!

When will they be normal?

Once your locked out, it is forever

I have no idea...

What??

If you run out of attempts you can't ever unlock it

I swear you can, you just have to wait a while...

But if so I'm lucky that I did it on my last attempt then

Nope! I've lost all the key holes

Okay, I could obtain it later.... For the moment, German.

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