French language Q&A Forum

Just thought I mention in case some US members are confused:  Most Americans say "being/standing in line," but most New Yorkers (and some others on the US East Coast) say "being/standing on line" and only some Americans (those familiar with British English from television, movies or traveling!) would understand "the queue." So thanks for "translating" the phrase "the queue" for us Americans. 

The answer provided is "C'est Marc Dupré."

Why? I would have thought the answer should have been "Il est Marc Dupré." 

Is this a special case when using c'est? Use it for stating a person's name?

The audio files don't match the following two sentences:

Bonne idée ! Leurs glaces sont excellentes !

Laquel est une pomme que tu as choisis

Laquel est une pomme  as-tu choisis

what are the differences in that two sentences.will you please help me? merci beaucoup

Hi! Perhaps someone can clarify a problem I have in distinguishing when to use "de" versus "du".  I don't have any problems distinguishing between "du" partitive (J'ai mangé du pain) and using "de" when the sentence is negated (Je n'ai pas mangé de pain).  But in examples like the sentences I've listed from this exercise (Délicieuse Rédaction), how does one know to use "de" in "mon reste de ragoût" and "du" for "la porte du jardin"?  

Vous avez raison.  Quel bonne historie!

Nous avons été très surpris en apprenant la nouvelle.

We were really surprised when we heard the news.

I would have used nous étions instead of nous avons été. Is that not correct?

In English nous avons été très surpris translates to - We have been very surprised which implies the surprise happened and is still ongoing or at least has a prolonged duration, whereas nous étions translates to - We were, which implies it happened but is no longer ongoing. The latter seems to be the correct answer to this question especially since being surprised is usually a point in time thing.

Les parents sont à la poste.

What is the difference?

  Je suis d'accord avec Michelle. C'etait tres interessant.

'que les gens me donnent' - was the answer for 'have been giving me'.   I thought that the French here meant (in your answer) -  'that the people 'are' giving me'.