French language Q&A Forum

Which country this learning website was created in? I never heard the word "moquette"  which means carpet in this text.  I know the word "tapis".

Simone 

J'aimais l'ecouter.    I am going to listen... to him.

Why isn't this lui ecouter?  

Thanks

Is "ne...plus" a negative phrase in French? Why is 'plus' being used to represent part of a negative sentence?

Are these both correct and if so what is the difference in their meaning.  J’ai descendu rapidement.  Je suis descendu rapidement.  Merci

I also was confounded about this. Seeing that "bien entendu" usually means of "course", I also thought that parler should have been a participle, which would yield the translation "I had of course talked about this new position". But as I understand "bien entendu" in this case does not translate to "of course" and that "entendu" should be seen in conjuction with "parler" and not as part of the idiomatic expression "bien entendu". Do I make any sense?

I ask because you say "une personne', regardless of whether the person is male or female, whereas it seems that 'fan', on the contrary, follows the gender of the underlying individual - is that correct?

This lesson shows the 2 as interchangeable, but are there situations where one more correct than the other? Why would anyone use the longer one if they're the same?

The learning point says « passer un examen » never means to pass an exam. But one of the correct responses was « il a passé un examen », what exactly does this translate to given it doesn’t mean pass an exam