French language Q&A Forum

In a search to demystify the difference between savoir and connaître, I stumbled upon an article earlier that suggested something along the lines of "use connaître when you've had prior experience with something" with one of the examples being "vous connaissez [name of place]?" meaning have you been to [name of place]? instead of asking whether the person is aware of the existence of said place. The second example was "Je connais Brad Pitt"; a statement that implies that one has met Brad Pitt before rather than plainly saying that they know of the existence of him. Since this lesson hasn't mentioned anything regarding what I've said above, can anyone enlighten me on this matter? 

Why wasn't "d'ici minuit" an acceptable translation for "by midnight"?

Even though I'm in a semi advanced level in this platform, I'm yet to understand your writing exercises. The latest one had two possible answers but in both cases it was marked wrong. For example, pour aller au travail or pour aller travailler. Another was je devais me lever super tôt instead of je devais me réveiller. The meaning of wake up meant to be out of bed instead. 

Bonjour, 

pourriez vous me dire la différence entre «au cas où besoin», «au cas du besoin» et «en cas de besoin»?

merci d'avance

You could add the English name for a male pig, which is a ''boar''.

is this correct

La fleur sent bon.

Which is the correct comparison:

Mais cette fleur sent meilleure.

Mais cette fleur sent mieux.

I see in an exercise that "I'm having new sandals made." is translated as "Je me fais faire de nouvelles sandales." I don't understand why the "me" is necessary in this case. I can see why for verbs like brosser, couper, raser, doucher, and so on. But not in this case. What am I missing?