French language Q&A Forum

I don't mark myself down for punctuation, but of course I still want to get it right. And I have a terrible tendency to use capital letters for roads etc the english way - i.e. "Rue de Quelque chose", "Place Quelque Chose" only to find that it should be "rue de Quelque Chose", "place Quelque chose" etc.
So I was expecting "le château de Versailles".  Mais non ! 

Is there any logic in this, or is it basically something that a native speaker just knows intuitively ?

I've been reading through the lesson and discussion comments to try to understand some of the subtle differences.

In English, if I go to a bakery and ask for "half a baguette", I'm asking them to take a full-size baguette and cut it in half. If I want a small but uncut baguette, I'd have to ask for "a half-size baguette" or a "mini-baguette".

I think the comments are saying that in French, "une demi-baguette" can mean either an uncut half-size baguette or half of a full-size baguette. Is that correct?

Thanks!

Have you made good friends?  Why is this reflexive?  Google translates it as:  "As-tu fait de bons amis"---comme moi.

Please tell me why "En fait" is not accepted in the translation of ”In fact, I practise [US: practice] a lot of different sports”.  Thanks.

The English “the film industry and film stars have been two of my greatest passions.”

—> in the exercise —>

“l'industrie du cinéma et les stars de cinéma sont deux de mes plus grandes passions.”

But why is it “sont” instead of something like “ont été”?