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Hello everyone :)

Just a small question, why do you use "faire une escale?" instead of "avoir une escale"?

because it's not "make the stopover".

Thank you in advance for your advices and responses.

I wrote "Oui, on a papoté pendant une heure." instead of "Oui, on a discuté/bavardé pendant une heure." It marked it as incorrect. I think bavardé is closer than discuté for 'chatted', but I feel like 'papoté' suits well for the context. Am I wrong?

Eg. Can you say J'aime mangeant instead of J'aime manger

Hello,

I was wondering, for this question:

why the answer is vieil and not vieux, like from the list on adjectives that go before nouns?

In one of the dictées, I ran into the expression "d'autant que je me souvienne"...par exemple, je n'aime pas les aliments sucrés d'autant que je me souvienne." I haven't liked sweet foods for as long as I can remember (or maybe more literally "for as much as I remember."  Why is "de" used before avant que?  Does that kind of replace "for" in English?  And why does it take the subjunctive?  I'm guessing that perhaps it takes the subjunctive because memory is fallible and perhaps there's an element of doubt?  Perhaps one is not remembering correctly?