"Avant, les téléchargements étaient trop longs."

Translation: Before, downloads were too long.

[KvitfjellMann]

surely downloads took too long?

[Dave962976]

One would hope! Duo has problems with English. LOTS of them!

[BorealOwl]

"Before, downloads were too long." Not really. The downloads took as long as they needed to, yes, but it's the time of the download that was too long. Should be, "Before, download times were too long," or "Before, downloads took too long," like KvitfjellMann says.

[CP5p3]

Téléchargements also translate as downloading. It'd be right to say a long downloading just like a long journey.

[ClawsOut]

The English translation isn't right. A download, just like a load of laundry, is either too big/small or too slow/fast. A load of laundry is never too long. But a load of laundry always takes too long.

[b_adger]

Again, incorrect usage of "Before" in the English translation, but no way to report this.

[InvertedGo]

How do you say "dial-up modem" in French?

[BarakSaltz]

Theoretically: "modem téléphonique".

"Dial the number." = "Composez le numéro."

[Christopholous]

PFFFT

[Martyn413385]

This section is so bad it's reached the stage where I just copy Duo's awful translations so I can paste them in the second time around!

[DQetZoJ5]

'before the downloads used to take too long' was accepted

[GraemeSarg]

Why isn't this "Avant, les téléchargements prenaient trop longs." ?

I'm not sure whether "être" is just poor style or actually incorrect.

The appropriate choice of verb seems to be between "prendre", "durer" and "mettre".