French language Q&A Forum

sorry im totally lost where each one should be used, and ieven in questions verb is after it when in lesson says cant be. Is there a really simply dummys guide please, i

second section sayes it cant be followed by a conjugated verb but it has been in first section when words being introduced, what am i missing?

Why doesn't the article change for médecin (Il y a un médecin et un médecin femme), when it does so for professeur (Le professeur s'appelle Eric. La professeur s'appelle Noémie)?

Salut! Why is it not “je jouais avec Elsa pendant quelques heures..” as it is happening continuously over a period of time? Why is it passé composé in this context? 

How do you know which to use, between auquel and à laquelle? Is the first masculine and the second feminine?

And, if a "best-efforts translation" to English were possible, would "de" represent "late OF two hours", "late BY two hours", or "late SOME two hours"?

Cheers, Alec

It is a negative sentence, not affirmative, nor a question, so would "personne" be the correct translation? If so, how would you translate the sentence to convey the meaning of "not just anyone meets her standards"? Is there an idiosyncratic French expression for this?

Cheers,

Alec

is it possible for me to repeat this test?  I pressed the wrong buttons and missed some questions.

Is there an easy way for me to access a French keyboard for these exercises?

I had written out the answers the first time I listened to the exercise and did a lot better on the handwritten exercises

I also did not complete all the exercises with each section and would like to go back to these

I'm confused as to why "we improved quickly" is in the passé composé rather than the imparfait. Surely the fact that they were quickly improving is an ongoing action in the past rather than something that happened "just like that" at one particular moment? (Having said that, reading the whole passage through again it clearly "feels" like it should be in the passé composé - I'm just not sure why....)

The link to "Using Le Présent for immediate/near future actions" in the lesson seems to be broken. Just a heads-up! Thanks!