#mr.moderino

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oak gobletBOT
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glad mortar
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Are you asking about the use of "quelles" or the order of words ?

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Ah i think the order of words

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In French it's completely possible to say "you speak what languages' and then add a question mark to make it a question

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It's a casual way to ask questions, if you wanna use the word order of "what languages do you speak" you have two options

  1. Quelles langues parles-tu
    Here, you make use of l'inversion which is formal

  2. Quelles langues est-ce que tu parles ?
    Or you just use est-ce que which is more neutral

woven thicket
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  • Quelles langues parles-tu ? → Inversion, the most formal way to ask a question
  • Quelles langues est-ce que tu parles ? → Est-ce que question formation, neutral
  • Tu parles quelles langues ? → Simply keeping declarative sentence structure, but with rising intonation, informal way to ask questions
  • Quelles langues tu parles ? → Sorta a mixture between inversion and intonation, this is not treated as "classically" correct, but is soemthing you can hear in very informal situations.
lime rain
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Thank you