"Voulez-vous une éponge pour votre cuisine ?"

Translation: Do you want a sponge for your kitchen?

[Karjze]

The lady sounds like she's about to snap when she says "cuisine"

[verticordian]

This sounds like something my passive-aggressive mother-in-law would say.

[Hawkeye97]

I laughed so hard at this

[ledohoanglong]

As I hear, it's like "Voulez-vous l'éponge...?"

[historicbruno]

Yes, the "une" is inaudible at full speed, leaving one to think it must be a definite article. I don't really see the point of full speed audio in this course. It should be slow only, at least it is sometimes accurate.

[carlovlntno]

I, too, went with kitchen. Sponges are for cleaning; who needs a sponge for cooking?

[mjpettitt]

I put 'Would you like a sponge for your kitchen?' and it marked it wrong?

[drplasma64]

reaching back to my high school french, I think if you want to say "would you like" you use a different verb tense. I think making it less "certain" makes the question or statement more polite. I could easily be wrong.

Je voudrais une cafe - I would like a coffee
Je veux une cafe - I want a coffee

[ThanKwee]

I believe you're right. "Would you like a sponge?" = "Voudriez-vous une éponge ?"

[only_human]

It accepted that today APR 11, 2014

[Paul_W]

Yes, and so it should be at last. In earlier lessons "Would you like" wasn't accepted for voulez-vous.

[Presumo]

I put, 'Do you want a sponge for your food?' Keeping that in the wit bank...

[santenoise]

I am so cross! Predictive text changed kitchen to lichen without me noticing, lost a heart!

[comqrgo]

Nice idea for a wedding present. Thanks DL

[aaronhamlin]

I offered someone a sponge for dinner. That's right. Eat that sponge.

[JazzyFrench]

I am not understanding the pronunciation with éponge. I though the 'é' gives more of an 'e' sound as opposed to an 'a' sound. Apologies but I don't know the IPA.

[austinshmaustin]

"é" rhymes with "hey."

[jsloving]

Everytime the woman voice asks a question she sounds under duress

[Sir_Carl]

For half a second, I though it meant: Do you want a sponge added to your meal?
The only thing that saved me was that I remembered that "meal" translates to "repas". :)

[eellrraatt]

do you want a sponge in your kitchen - it was a bad translation - why?

[SwingPuck]

I'm no expert but I think it's because of the use of 'pour' i.e. 'for your kitchen', not 'in your kitchen'.

[sfishlock]

Why can't the sponge be for your cook? For example if you are asking the owner of the cafe ?

[billy98111]

Should we pronounce the "s" at the end of vous?

[FreeButters]

you only pronounce the "s" if the following word starts with a vowel sound, that's what we call "faire la liaison"

[FlorisdeVr3]

Do you want a towel for your kitchen