French language Q&A Forum

Bonjour! Je m'appelle Linh et je viens d'Hanoi en Le Vietnam.

I just saw in an exercice- Il a pris la voiture de son ami.

The answer with the pronoms- il lui a pris la voiture. 

Here the preposition is 'de', not 'à'.

How to understand this?

I have gone to my notebook repeatedly, but the Kwik Kwiz says this:

You took this Kwiz 21 hours, 54 minutes ago.

This lesson is already in your notebook. Go to your notebook now to kwiz this topic as many times as you like.
How can I retake this quiz? I am struggling with this particular subject and really want to retake the kwiz.

Is the singular 'différent' a mistake ?

Coucou!

I dont understand the recorded pronunciation in this phrase : Les plantes produisent l’oxygène. Why is the “ent” silent in produisent?  And why is the “l” silent in l’oxygène?

Merci pour votre aide 

I found this clip on You Tube very useful to help clarify my understanding, and you may like it too! Object Pronouns with Madame Curnow - Part 2 (Sorry, this is not a question)

J'ai toujours voulu être danseuse - I always wanted to be a dancer.

Please remind me why this sentence is passé composé. It seems to me that it is something that she always used to want i.e. it describes a past continuous state of mind. I understood that verbs such as vouloir (and aimer, penser, savoir etc) usually use the imparfait (unless a specific time is specified), and that if anything the case for imparfait would be strengthened by adding "toujours" which implies a habitual state. So I was wondering why she didn't say "Je voulais toujours être danseuse" instead. Thanks. 

Hang on, the example says les chats voient dans la nuit so why is Les chats gris voient dans la nuit wrong and the wanted answer Les chats gris voient la nuit?

While I understand that the phrase: “Où mets-je mes chaussures d'habitude ?” is technically correct for the exersise,   I am having a hard time mentally processing when I would ever use first-person inversion.  To me, it sounds incredibly snooty and stuck up and something I would never want to suggest that I am. 

Is there a situation I would be inclined to use the first person inversion for asking a question, and why?