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I don't understand this

French: "Vous parlez d'autres langues"
English "Are you speaking about other languages?"

if "de" comes from "parlez", the lesson says it needs to be contracted to "des"
but here, it's just "d'"

I am wondering when I should use à qui versus auquel/à laquelle.

For the sentence: The girls who I am thinking about are pretty.

I said: les filles auxquelles je pense sont jolies.

But the correct answer was: les filles à qui je pense sont jolies.

What is the difference between these two ways of writing the sentence? Thank you!

I have a question in these two sentences: 1. Tu ne me le donnes pas. 2. Tu ne la lui écris pas. What is the correct order of indirect pronoun and object pronoun? In the first sentence, it seems that the order is indirect(me) + object(le), but in the second one, it becomes object(la) + indirect(lui). Is there anything wrong here? Or both are correct, that this order doesn’t matter?

Hi

I have been taught that à cause de is used negatively. The positive usage is grace à. Whats your opinion?

Again, étonnant is also used negatively or so i have been told. Maybe you wanted use it as such here.

Bonjour à tous,

pourriez vous m'expliquer la différence entre ces 2 phrases ? (pourquoi on réutilise «de» dans la première et non dans la deuxième)

1-Cherchez bien sur Internet avant d'*acheter ou de* réserver vos vacances.

2-Ce cours est composé d'*une ou plusieurs activités.

merci beaucoup 

I used 'du coup' instead of 'donc' but it wasn't given as an option.

Are you going to the cinema tonight?

To go with you to the cinema 

Can one use 'une pénalité' for 'penalty' or is that just used in rugby as opposed to soccer?

The first two sentences of the exercise use "on" rather than "nous" for we.  Why is the "nous conjugation of the imperative verb (prenons) used rather than the "on" conjugation (prend)?  That is why "Prenons un selfie"... rather than "Prend un selfie"...?