"La fille mange du riz."

Translation: The girl is eating rice.

[IsaiahMich]

what is the difference between "du" and "de"? it seems to me that du is "some of the", while de is "some". my hearts say otherwise, though :(

[Yunqi4]

Du (masculine)
De la (feminine)
De l' (before vowels)
Des (plural)

[Chynahblue]

I don't understand when manages and mange are appropriate to use with what. This rule seems to change a bit in these lessons. I thought that with il/Elle/ on manges was to be used as the conjunction and with tu and je Mange was the conjugate. So why with La Fille is it not manges?

[gabewithafender]

"manges" is only for "tu". "mange" is for "el/elle/je". Here's a nice reference for the conjugations: http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/erverbs_regular.htm

[Neda.]

You can use this site for conjugations : http://www.verb2verbe.com/default.aspx
You can also test yourself there.

[tantsurin]

thank you for the link! really helpful! :)

[Neda.]

De rien :)

[BetoGEsp]

I recommend you "Le conjugueur" it's an app totaly useful for this

[juank411]

It is imposible to hear whe she pronounce "du"

[flipboy90]

I didn't understand her clearly on the last word

[RobertSawyer]

La fille and la femme sound the ame to me when it is played.

[PERCE_NEIGE]

I don't see how, because they have only the first sound in common.

[r_li]

can some body explain the pronunciation of "riz"?

[PERCE_NEIGE]

Yes, it's "ree".
You only have to train your way to pronounce the French "r".

In the audio the "ee" sound is a bit too short, it makes it more difficult to understand for beginners (but not for native), maybe they could improve that, but I think they have to improve first the wrong audios (wrong liaisons, etc...)

[Ishita15feb]

When we click "du" it shows by "the" and when we write it, it shows it is wrong.

[eseidel]

How do you differentiate "les filles" from "le fille" when they sound exactly the same?

[silverhearted555]

Wrong just because i use 'eat' instead of 'eats'? Is this an english course or what!

[Tayyibah5]

I skiped a letter and got everything wrong

[DavidParker28]

zucc want drincc