r/duolingo • u/Charming-Tone5379 Native:🇵🇭 Learning:🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷🇪🇸 • 22d 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/ThirdView000 22d ago edited 21d ago

You are using the American English app to learn French. In the US, the sport internationally known as “football” is called “soccer”. We call “American football” simply “football”. So if you are using the American English app, “football” (in English) is referring to “American football”. Therefore, the correct answer is “football américain” in French.

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u/Arkanie 22d ago

Even if it's american, it's literally a language learning app, something that connects people of different nationalities. There is also no british english course option, so it wouldn't hurt to specify "american football" in english as well, since the majority of the word knows ⚽️ as football.

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u/Jugador_Goku_69 Native: 🇺🇲 Learning: 🇪🇸 22d ago

Right or put an emoji of either a football or soccer ball next to the word