French language Q&A Forum

Anyone else struggle with the distinction ? Like me, you may use “finalement” too much (and then wonder why it gets the strikethrough) !

The attached link is a good “explication” - it is all in French, but Hugo speaks clearly and if you want a boost in confidence in your aural comprehension and more practice listening without being overwhelmed, his podcasts and videos would be worth listening to for that reason alone.

https://youtu.be/8iXi3y1B4Us

Why is “ils préfèrent apprendre allemand” marked as a wrong answer? I thought either “allemand” or “l’allemand” was correct here. 

An optional translation is given as: a déjà commencé à me poser problème.

Could you please explain why, in this case, there is not an indefinite article (un) before the word 'problème'.

Thanks

I was expecting to see “j’ai encore retardée mes achats” because the speaker is female. Does the exercise use “retardé” because the object of this part of the sentence is “achats” (a masculine noun), and not the female speaker?

Étranger - Moyen-Orient; Étranger, toujours - à Paris;  Bretagne, enfin - (Chez nous) 

Brilliant and so true. Bretagne - je l'aime beaucoup !. We have a nephew living there, and we have a friend there who is dedicated to preserving the Breton language in the face of the onslaught from - - -  French !

"Il devrait encore être sous garantie." "Il devrait toujours être sous garantie." This exercise uses "encore" exclusively here, but I was wondering if this was an example of a case where "encore" and "toujours" could be used interchangeably to mean "still"? It is a hard concept to grasp because of the other meanings of these 2 words, and one I just can't seem to get right. For example, could "Il devrait encore être sous garantie" have 2 possible meanings depending on context i.e. "It should (still or again) be under warranty", and could "Il devrait toujours être sous garantie" also have 2 possible meanings i.e.  "It should (still or always) be under warranty" ? 

A little bit of confusion here 

Here you can see that if is followed by a verb in the Simple Past (won), 

As a simple Englishman, I translate that as passé simple which is clearly not what is meant

Can I say "qui- sont-ce for saying who are they? 
who are they =qui sont-ce? 
they are my friends= Ce sont mes amis

What does "en gras" mean in the context of a title?