French language Q&A Forum

"La fois dernière" = Noun

"La dernière fois" = Adverb & noun

I got a question wrong, looked at this lesson again and got confused by the whole "followed by a clause" thing (tricky to remember) and I thought that maybe this would be a easier way for me to remember it but I don't want to be lead down the wrong track.

 Why does the verb 'détester' not require the ne explétif in this sentence:  Les filles détestent que vous les embêtiez. 

The first sentence,  "il faut vraiment que l'on discute de ta mère"  is the contraction  l'on for "le" or "la" ?  I still don't get why it is even needed.  Would it not work to say, "...qu'on disute de ta mère"  which then maps to English as "that we discuss about your mother". 
I'm guessing that it's a direct object pronoun, but then why isn't "de ta mére"  the object of the sentence?

Can you use 'tandis que' instead of 'pendant que'?

Couldn't loisir be used for hobby or is hobby more common (another English word adopted by the French!)?

I was wondering would these two sentences I made up be correct? I'm trying to understand the difference between the 12hr and 24hr.

Je me couche à vingt-deux heures 

I go to bed at 10pm

Je me révielle à neuf heures 

I wake up at 9am

Thanks

Nicole

No matter what I do, which speaker/earphones I use, or how many times I switch the playback on my system the sound file examples SIMPLY WILL NOT PLAY. I may as well be reading a textbook and practicing mispronunciation. If I use ANY other site, including the Lawless Spanish site, ALL sound clips play with NO issues whatsoever. I bought this system with a two-year subscription. It has been a useless and costly mistake without being able to actually hear how to correctly pronounce anything. Does anyone else have this problem?

I found that the sound quality on this recording was really terrible, there's an echo that made it really difficult to make out what the speaker was saying, so I abandoned it.

During the first sentence below, I find it super hard to pick up the 'eu' after déjà - is it actually there?!

- As-tu déjà eu l'occasion de séjourner à l'Hôtel du Palais à Biarritz ?

I often find that if I have a lesson I want to retest on it won't let me & says:

"To kwiz this lesson again, save it to a notebook and kwiz against it until you have nailed it."

but when I add it to the notebook it then says:

"This lesson is already in your notebook. Go to your notebook now to kwiz this topic as many times as you like."

apologies if this has been asked before, but I did search & check the FAQ but didn't find anything.

many thanks  :)