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You list 'le mariage' twice, each with the same translation. Perhaps you intended one of them to be e.g. 'les noces', which clarification of the difference being made.

Hello!

Just a question regarding the usage of venir vs. être when saying where one is from: 

This lesson notes " To say which city you are from in French, you will use the following expression: Je viens de + [city]". One example given is "Je viens de Londres / I am from London". (And no alternative to "venir de" is mentioned in the lesson).  

However, a related lesson (À = To/in and De = From/of with cities in French (French Prepositions of Location)) gives an example using "être" to say where one is from: Je suis de La Rochelle / I'm from La Rochelle.

It seems there is a subtle difference in meaning (I am from vs. I come from), however in both of the above cases the translation given is "I am from". 

Could someone clarify if venir and être are interchangeable in this context, or if there are specific uses for each? 

I saw "paraître" followed by the past participle and not the infinitive in A Day In The Countryside.

"qui paraissaient occupés" was the answer while I had offered "qui paraissaient s'occuper"

Can you advise ?

In answer to this question...

"Marie vient demain" Now turn this sentence into a question, using "n'est-ce pas"
... I answered "N'est-ce pas que Marie vient demain?

Where the lesson says "Both mille and un millier de are followed by a plural verb (sont venus)", am I correct in saying that this only occurs when these adjectives are modifying the subject? The rule is listed after a number of examples, some of which have the adjectives as part of the object/ with no verb following). Let me know if I'm missing something. Thanks!

Can you tell me, again, how to change to a French keyboard in Windows?

Je ne comprends pas pourquoi on dit ton actrice mais on dit ta mère.

I actually got one question spot on and then others very close, missing a dash or full stop and scored 0! This is very discouraging. Surely that is incorrect? 

Regarding this exercise: (https://french.kwiziq.com/my-languages/french/exercises/overview/1966 "A French Lunch Menu") 

My answers "saumon avec riz et brocoli", and "poulet avec frites et petits pois" were marked as correct, when the final text gave "saumon avec DU riz et DES brocolis" and "poulet avec DES frites et DES petits pois", as the translations, respectively.  My question is, on a french menu, is it more common to keep the second/third/fourth, etc. partitive articles in a dish name, or to drop them?  

(Part of my confusion was that my responses were marked as correct, (with no alternate answers given), however the translation given at the end of the exercise differed from my own, as noted above).

Thanks in advance!