Listen and answer out loud.
Here is the pattern:
You hear… Je rends visite à ma mère
You should say… Je lui rends visite.
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Question 6
Question 7
Question 8
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Question 4
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11 responses to “G-6-2-1 rendre visite à quelqu’un : French to French drill – replace “à quelqu’un” with indirect object”
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This was a great exercise for me. It’s one thing to learn an expression and completely different to use it in all its forms and conjugations. More of these, please.
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Hello Suzanne,
Thank you for letting me know! I will make more of these.
Best regards,
David
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I also had some trouble understanding the word aurait in Question 4, but once I knew what it was, I was able to hear it. I also had a bit of trouble understanding rendais in Question 6, perhaps because of the way it was pronounced, but also because I have never used rendais in that context. In speaking, i would have said j’ai rendu visite à ma mère, although I guess that je rendais could work in certain contexts. It is always a challenge to know when to use passé composé and when to use l’imparfait!
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Excellent exercises! My problem was with unfamiliar verb tenses initially. And, like Ray, certain syllable strings of names/numbers. Got the final one right the first time however.
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Great Chris. Thank you for letting me know. I will work on more exercises like this soon.
Best regards,
David
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No problem for the most part. Pronouns no problem. I had a little difficulty hearing the “Je” in “Je rendais visite à ma mère.” You have a light pronunciation here.
But great exercise here. Besides order of pronouns, one can learn different usages of this expression. The “Il aurait rendu visite”, “he is said to have visited”, is an interesting form.
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Thank you Jon. The feedback is helpful.
Best regards,
David
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As a second comment, recognizing that certain syllable strings are names (names of people, places, etc.) often presents a problem — I don’t know a good solution to that one.
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I had trouble recognizing the throaty (Belgian sounding) “r” in “aurait” in the question part of Question 4 (no problem in the answer to Question 4 or the other times you said “aurait” — the “r” was softer — less Germanic — those times). After repeated listenings, it was easier to hear.
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While I heard and understood more than 80 % I had a more difficult time in formulating the answers in the correct order given.
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I had trouble understanding a lot of the words when I listened to them before reading them, even though they were words I am familiar with.
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