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- "C'est du porc."
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You're right, it could be better for the « c'est », even though it's understandable. But the real problem is with « porc »: we don't pronounce the final « c », and that's a really bad mistake.
Aurelienche, are you saying that the proper pronunciation of <<Porc>> in this case is to not have the hard 'c' sound?
Would you only pronounce the "c" with a hard "ck" sound when chaining as in "La porc est super"?
What about in the case of "La porc, c'est super"?
Merci
Duolingo does make mistakes, and in porc the final c is NOT pronounced. Duolingo's pronunciation of LA SOUPE in French is equally terrible. It is not supposed to sound like soup in English. I am fully bilingual from Quebec, my mother is a native French speaker
Why is it << Du porc >> and not << Un porc >> I thought we should use << du >> for not countable objects?
du means some, and if du is used, then the sentence is referring to meat.
If instead the article un had been used, then it would have been referring to a whole animal, and that would probably mean it was a live animal, as opposed to meat.
Check out The great pig debate.
To me it sounded like she was saying "fait" du porc, even though the spelling/grammar on my behalf is likely incorrect. :s
My answer was "There is some pork.", and it was marked wrong. May I ask how to say "There is some pork" in French. In English, there is a difference between "It is" and "there is". The former is used in any location, while the latter has specific location.
"There is" is "il y a". For example, "There is some pork" would be "Il y a du porc". In this sentence, she says "C'est du porc", and "c'est" only means "it is".
