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Mistakes

Il faut mettre à profit les fautes commises.
You ought to learn from your mistakes.

I hope my French sentence is fine.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on September 24, 2009 at 8:41pm
Well, the sentence is technically correct, but we really would say it in a less convoluted way (and closer to a literal translation):

Il faut apprendre de ses erreurs
Permalink Reply by Crack1 on September 24, 2009 at 9:31pm
Frank
Yours sound very natural.
I copied it.
I copy almost every answers you all provided to me.
I have a separate folder for this work.
Permalink Reply by Frank on September 24, 2009 at 9:38pm
No problem, Crack. Glad it helped.

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