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Hello, if the use of vouloir in the past tense is closer to tried, how do you say « i wanted to... » ? There is a reasonable difference between meanings in English e.g. i wanted to go shopping and I tried to go shopping...

I think it would be really helpful to have english translations to understand what I'm listening to. Other than that, this is great thank you

The fete was organized by the sisters, so that Beatrice would have been NOTRE cousine rather then MA cousine.  I recognized that the exercise said "my cousin" but I figured that as they (sisters) were making it, the cousin would have been one of both of theirs.  I guess I overthought what was being asked.....

Nous aimons nous promener sur l'avenue.

What is the necessity and meaning of "dessus" after tomber?  Why not just "bonnes choses vous tombent"?  Good things fall on you

I might be wrong, but I hear everywhere that "excité" has a sexual connotation in French, unlike in English. If it's right, I think it would be better to change the adjective here.

 Looking for more detail on these verbs, I couldn't find ANY French verb conjugation sites that conjugated verbs like AMUSER, MAQUILLER, REPOSER, or even DÉCÉDER with ÊTRE. They all use AVOIR. Why is that?

I put Ils me manquaient quand ils étaient partis  but the answer given is Ils m'ont manqué quand ils étaient partis. 

I thought it would be imparfait because I was in a state of missing them all the time they were absent.