French language Q&A Forum

It pulled me up (incorrectly) on my spelling of oignons with ognons.

I don't understand this

French: "Vous parlez d'autres langues"
English "Are you speaking about other languages?"

if "de" comes from "parlez", the lesson says it needs to be contracted to "des"
but here, it's just "d'"

The notes state that Martin aime Sarah can say ´Martin loves Sarah’ but my answer was marked wrong, saying it should have been ´Martin aime bien Sarah’

I understand that you are trying to be politically correct by using "they/their" when speaking of Ankou in your English translation even though it's a singular noun.  If this were a non-binary French person, I could understand your effort.  But in English we would say "it" for this strange, unknown figure.  Why not use that?  It gets very confusing.

A2 question « The family are totally unbearable.

La famille est

Les familles sont

La famille sont

Les familles est

The question is incorrect in English,hence it prompts an incorrect answer in French. I suggest that the English version be written correctly (singular) so that the student is not misled.

In a previous lesson, J’allais + infinitive = was going to _ . This example that is captioned, is translated as ‘ I was enrolling at university’ instead of ‘I was going to enroll’. 

Hello!

I am wondering why there is a '-t-' in the sentence  "Où va-t-on mettre le sapin ?"    Is this because it is using the reflexive version of the verb mettre?   If so why do we use the relflexive mettre in this instance?   Thank you.