French language Q&A Forum

Would you say:

J'ai beaucoup aimé ce livre or j'ai aimé beaucoup ce livre?

Lise connaissait un super restaurant local.

Je porte des vêtements superbes. (this sentence is from another writing exercise, Louis XIV)

When do I use 'super' and when do I use 'superbe'?

I don't understand why you use "alors" instead of "donc". I don't get it because alors means so (then, yet) and donc means so, as well (therefore).

Citrouille and Potiron both means pumkin in english. 

Is there any difference in its usage? One is more formal?

I have not seen this one addressed elsewhere, so I will post it and see if there is any advice. In all the exercises so far, "près de" is used. I am in Quebec and have been using "proche de", which seems to be commonly used.

So - the question: is there some subtle differences in the use of "près" or "proche" which I should learn?