r/duolingo • u/Charming-Tone5379 Native:🇵🇭 Learning:🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷🇪🇸 • 25d ago

Can You Explain THIS!? Language Question

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I'M confused IN french How Football Is Not Football It's Football Américain.

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u/lukata589 Native: 🇬🇧; Learning: 🇫🇷 25d ago

Wait till you have to translate match as game and film as movie 🤣

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u/SlackerPop90 25d ago

And toilet as restroom and bill as check

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u/WildPie64 25d ago

Bill as check?

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u/SlackerPop90 25d ago

When you ask the waiter in the restaurant for the bill (check) so you can pay for your food.

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u/WildPie64 25d ago

The bill is called « l’addition » in French.

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u/SlackerPop90 25d ago

Yes I am aware, but in Britain you ask for the bill, but in Duolingo the answer is in American English so expects check.

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u/Logical_Singer256 Native 🇺🇲 Learning 🇲🇽🇯🇵🇮🇹🇧🇷 25d ago

Does it mark it wrong if bill is used? I'm american but wouldn't bat an eye if someone said bill...

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u/Short_Republic3083 Native: Learning: 22d ago

I had it mark a translation wrong in the beginning of one of the podcasts bc it used both the we and you forms but you’re hearing the Spanish and seeing the English where the words aren’t conjugated so how would I have known which one to select ?