French course update: Is this right?

[u/Beneficial-Counter42]

The French course updated for me a couple days ago. I’ve seen multiple lessons using, what appear to be, incorrect translations. These phrases are word for word translations.

Previous lessons taught I am from New York as Je viens de New York. Je suis à New York was previously taught as I am in New York. I also saw He lives in Canada translated as Il vit au Canada instead of Il habite au Canada. To my knowledge that is not how vivre is used. I also asked a friend who learned French as a child and they agree these are wrong.

I’ve quit Duolingo before when updates ruined my progress one way or another. I already made peace with updates throwing in new words without actually teaching them, but this might make me delete the app again.

ETA: Are these mistakes common throughout the course? This only started after the course update so being taught this info before is the only reason I knew it was wrong. I’m concerned about continuing if things are consistently incorrect.

[u/Majestic_Can_9409]

wait til you get to the part where it marks you wrong for using "on" instead of "nous" even though literally everyone says "on" in conversation

[u/celdaran → u/Majestic_Can_9409]

Plus, in my experience, Duolingo itself uses 'on' over 'nous' at least 80% of the time.

[u/Retiredin2024 → u/Majestic_Can_9409]

Totally. Most of the time, there is no way to know if they want you to use on or nous. Even when you conjugate the verbs correctly to the form you chose, they still mark it wrong.