best to use reflexive verb?

I saw "It's hardly noticeable, you can barely see it" translated as

"Ça s'aperçoit à peine." I looked for it elsewhere and found "c’est à peine évident." I would say "on le voit à peine." Would that be awkward? i believe the french prefer to use a reflexive verb in this case and that I have to try to approach a sentence that way.

Merci, d'avance.

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Permalink Reply by Vedas on May 16, 2013 at 6:59pm

Hello,

rather than "ça s'aperçoit à peine" one would say more naturally "ça se voit à peine"

"on le voit à peine" is good too.

Both can be used irrespective of context.

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Permalink Reply by Florian Chanonat on May 23, 2013 at 5:17pm

I want to say something about the word "ça".

You can use it when you want but don't use it if you're talking to an important person (looking for a job for example). Use the word "cela".