Any French experts who can help me with Duolingo?

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How am I meant to know if it is left or right just by looking at these words?

So sorry to hear about your illness @Underthesea65 x

Wow I never expected so many responses! It's only lighthearted so I hope no one is upset.
Still annoying that there's more than one correct answer.

It's also the fact that there was more than one possible correct answer for this one as far as I am aware? I got it on the third attempt but the choice was boulangerie, pharmacie or montagne which are all feminine?

Duolingo recently fired a bunch of human translators / content creators and replaced them with AI, which might explain this nonsense.

You could use either prendre or prenez here btw: prendre would be an impersonal infinitive, used in public announcements, general instructions etc

Is that because it is a different form of Spanish? ie, South American, not European, or similar?

It is designed like this because repetition is helpful. But you can jump ahead any time you want if you don't like the repetition.

Are you sure you have got the sound on and turned up on your phone? Normally it speaks the sentence and you fill in the blanks for these type of exercises.

@Underthesea65 really sorry you are so unwell. I wasn't trying to beat you up, was just trying to make sure the OP didn't go down a rabbit hole.

No idea what's going on with that duolingo. Haven't done the french obviously, but with the languages I did there were sometimes activities where there was a dialogue and you filled in words, hence my question.

I would report it as a bug.

@CandiCaneicles

I found the Spanish to be hit and miss. It seems to use Latin American Spanish more than Castilian Spanish which is a bit annoying when you want the European version (carro/coche for example).

Also “there’s a bug in the bathroom” means “there’s a big prick in the bathroom” in LA Spanish

On yours though OP I don’t get it either! I speak some French from doing A Level, although haven’t done much with it in 20 years…

Forget Duolingo- memrise is a better language app!

Duolingo is not the best place if you want to understand the grammar. It's good for revising a language you already have some knowledge of, but it's not good at explaining grammar. I bought a grammar book to go alongside it.

I agree with this - I was doing fine with Duolingo Russian for a while, simple sentences and learning vocab. Then it took quite a steep hike in difficulty and started throwing new cases at me without explaining when to use them or what the rules were for forming them. It's kind of fallen by the wayside since then. I really should get back to it.

My dh is doing the French one, and I speak pretty good French. I've usually found that when he doesn't get something, there's a clue somewhere as to which answer is right. I'm not sure with yours, unless as a PP suggested there was audio and you've not got it on? Or is it related to an ongoing bit about finding a pharmacy? It's more likely you'd ask the way to a pharmacy than a mountain.

Are there no picture clues? I use it lots , in several different languages, and the answer is always in the picture?

Agree with this. I use it as a way to keep vocab in my head really in little snatches of time I get

Yes good point. Usually the answer is either in th picture or in the sound

This, it's way better.

No pictures or sounds on either of these.

Is that because it is a different form of Spanish? ie, South American, not European, or similar?

Yes I think it's mostly Mexican or South American Spanish. Source: I speak Spanish and am learning other languages on DL, my partner is learning Spanish on it and I help him practice a lot.

I do practice my rusty A level French on it, for fun but I have the full version and haven't encountered the OP's issue in French, but I have occasionally in a lesser spoken language I am learning on there.

Thanks for the recommendation for Memrise, have always meant to try it!

I know you said there wasn't a picture with your first one but I would expect there to be a picture above this one with a pharmacy sign (green cross). Sometimes you do have to look at the picture to understand what the answer should be.

I wonder whether you are offline and there's meant to be audio, but it isn't working due to you having no internet? As usually with Duo you are writing something you have listened to, or you are translating something.

The prendre/prenez debate is an excellent example of how you can't trust everything you read on the internet. People claiming to live in France saying you use a different form of the verb for left and right.

This is incorrect: "Prendre la rue à gauche" would be perfectly a grammatical utterance to give an impersonal instruction to an unknown individual or individuals, as in public signage:

@AuxArmesCitoyens ... loving the username

Thanks! I'm kind of annoyed I miss3d a golden opportunity to go écriture inclusive 😁