French language Q&A Forum

Il y avait une opposition considérable à la construction de la tour. De nombreux artistes et écrivains étaient contre le projet mais la popularité de la tour et de l'exposition a fait taire les objections.

On a couple of occasions,  after completing a phrase, when I clicked submit, the exercise jumped to the next phrase before I had a chance to see the answer and give myself a mark. Why does this happen?

What is la friandise phare in English?L

One of the things that continues to confuse me is when to use à , sur, dans when working with dates ( dans l’après midi - ) , sur La  Canebière. Etc because sometimes they use au, à la  and they are correcting me . Is there a lesson I can review to clarify this?

That example doesn't make sense to me, if they are referring to the duration of time they spent in Spain, then why use an instead of année ? Even without the need of emphasizing the amount of time they spent in Spain, wouldn't the usage of année be required anyways due to the rule stating that you should use it when considering the amount of time in it's duration ?