French language Q&A Forum

In level C1 why is there so much emphasis on passé simple?  I would rather be practising useful phrases. Thank you.  

Every once in a while someone asks about punctuation.  I try to be a stickler on punctuation in English and must admit I don't understand the punctuation used in Kwiziq.  For example, why is there a comma in the sentence beginning Sa beauté and not in the sentence beginning with La reine?  And, also, shouldn't it be: Il était, une fois dans une contrée lointaine, une ....?

In the 5th sentence of the full text to read and listen to, the audio says "Mon fils David, lui va être un loup garou", but the text shows "Mon fils David va être un loup garou". 

So why is it that 1e, 2e, 3e, is only used for ranks / positions and never for dates.. (except 1st/ 1e i think?)

What is correct " tu achetes les chaussures" or " tu achetes des chaussures" 

J'ai choisi créer pour "made up" mais il ne marchait pas.  À sa place, vous avez proposé "inventer."  Dans la deuxième instance, j'ai utilisé "inventer ".  Vous avez fait la correction, "créer ".  Je pense que tous les deux devraient être acceptable dans chaque traduction.  Make up, imagine, create sont des synonymes dans le contexte de cette histiore.  L'histoire était mignon comme d'habitude.  Félicitations ! 

Interested to know why "mal de gorge" wasn’t accepted?

 Incidentally there’s a very rare type of severe throat infection known as "Vincent’s angina" in English. I find from the internet that it’s named after a French epidemiologist with the magnificent name of Jean Hyacinthe Vincent. 

According to the above rule, each/every month should only be chaque mois, since "chaque" goes with a singular noun, and "tous les" goes with a plural noun.  How is "mois" plural?  Just because it has an "s" at the end?  Very confusing.  Please help!

This isn't really about the lesson per se, but two English-language books about DeGaulle: Julian Jackson "De Gaulle" & Jonathan Fenby "The General, Charles DeGaulle & the France He Saved" are fascinating character studies & well worth the read. 

The man that Churchill once described to FDR as "our mutual headache", c'était vraiment un homme compliqué.