French language Q&A Forum

From Ontario and it is a big deal here, making costumes decorating the house, street parties, parades, etc.

Merci l'automne poésie c'est fantastique.

Ce produit est inférieur au nôtre.

Why "au nôtre" rather than "à nôtre" 

I wrote puis-je vous aider and it was corrected to be est-ce que je peux vous aider.

J'habite à Colombie et toi?

Colombie est trés jollie 

Bienvenue 

Vane

How can I determine if I can use the historical past to describe a past event? Does it work effectively for both l'imparfait and le passé composé? For example, to convey the following sentence in French: I was working when the phone rang.

Normally, I would say: La telephone a sonne quand je travaillais

But with a historic past, can I say: La telephone sonna quand je travaillai.

“You are reading the instruction manual”. Why should this not be “en train de lire” instead of a present indicative conjugation?

Why in this sentence are we using past perfect in one part and subjunctive present in the other? For temporal coherence, shouldn't we use the subjunctive past in the second part? 

Also, can we use 'reprimande' in French, instead of remarques, for reprimand in English?

Thanks.