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Jun 25, 2014 - 01:44 PM
At some point Fluenz tells us that in French the present is often used when in English we would use the future tense. Since we are not taught the future tense at any level of Fluenz, you can generally rely on the fact that when they ask for such a translation as in your example, they want the simple present. If they wanted to imply the future by use of "aller" then they would specifially say "And what are you going to do afterwards?" In your example you can think of the French version as "And what are you doing afterwards?" which makes sense of both the French and English (at least to me).
Jun 30, 2014 - 07:47 PM
Makes sense James, thanks for clarifying.
Jun 30, 2014 - 09:52 PM
No disrespect intended, but le futur proche is taught in Fluenz French. This is the expression of the future with the use of aller, "Je vais visiter Paris en mai." Le future simple is not taught in Fluenz French and is used by conjugating the verb, "Je partirai à Paris en mai" I was just introduced to le future simple in the session that was concluded a couple of weeks ago at alliance française, which was my first session at the A2 level. Anyway the way that I understand it, le futur proche is used when something is going to take place in the immediate future or there is a level of certainty that something will happen. Whereas le futur simple is use more in the context of there are plans for something to happen but it's not necessarily definite. I had the same confusing, thinking that the le futur simple was with the use of aller, but that is not correct.