#solution3407

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iron gardenBOT
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silver sable
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Meaning-wise, not much, but their transitivity is different

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J'ai entendu dire que notre ami était malade.
[direct transitive]
J'ai entendu parler de la maladie de notre ami.
[indirect transitive]

karmic hamlet
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j'ai entendu parler de... -> i've heard of...
j'ai entendu dire que... -> i heard that...

autumn oyster
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Oohhhh thanks!

prime roost
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But yeah

karmic hamlet
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I wouldn't say it's misleading. The tenses just don't translate cleanly from one language to another. And I understand both of those translations as referring to events in the past, regardless of what we call them in English (I actually don't know, I know very little English grammar). There's also a lot of contexts where I would use I heard and I've heard interchangeably

silver sable
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Simple past (I heard) and present perfect (I’ve heard)

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The two are distinct though so Yez’s point stands; they should either be both simple past or both present perfect

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‘I heard/I’ve heard about your presentation yesterday. Great work.’
‘I heard/I’ve heard that your presentation went well yesterday. Great work.’

karmic hamlet
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Frankly, I find that needlessly nitpicky for the context, considering that this is not a textbook and I had copy pasted my answer from where I initially wrote it in #🌈anglais-français . And as I said, there are many cases where they are interchangeable for me.