French language Q&A Forum

In one of the writing exercises, I translated "I love my cousin Benjamin" to, "J'aime bien mon cousin Benjamin", but the system corrected this to "J'aime beaucoup mon cousin Benjamin". Why? It actually seems to me that "J'aime bien" is more appropriate than "J'aime beaucoup" (I like a lot).

hi.can I use " dans" to  say" J' habite  dans Layon"

Instead  of "à"

none of the lesson examples gave info about aura (verb). I got the when/after part right which was in the lesson but something else caused me to get these wrong. I feel ripped and wronged. this was an unfair lesson.

I was wondering why "j'irai finir" is used instead of "je vais finir." Is there a subtle difference in meaning between them? Thanks!

In the Sentence, "Le premier jour a été très dur", why is this not an opinion calling for the imparfait?

Why does mais "elle l'a réussi" get marked wrong, in lieu of "elle l'a eu?" Are they not synonymous? 

My apologies for having multiple questions on this lesson. It is not that the lesson is unclear. It is that the two test questions that test the understanding of the lesson are awkward if not downright counter productive to reinforcing the lesson.

For example: the lesson states that when  'avoir + descendu'  is used with an animated being as the object then it means to kill/shoot that being. Unless the test question really means that Jack took the giant's dead body(and hence no longer animated (LOL) ) downstairs then it is misleading and confusing. In English "to take someone downstairs" simply means to usher them to your basement.

hi.  is there a subtle difference between the words 'pétantes' and 'pile'?  Should you use one in certain circumstances?

Is there any logic to the gender of body parts or is it just random to be memorized?