French language Q&A Forum

One of the sentences for translation would not play so I had to leave it blank and continue.

I'm sure the speaker says "charger" and not "changer" in this exercise. I understand that "charger" wouldn't make sense in the context but it is still off putting when doing the exercise and trying to faithfully write what is being said

I have a doubt if the following direct to indirect speech.  Which one of a & b is right? Thanks in advance.  Une mère demande a son fils

I often find that if I have a lesson I want to retest on it won't let me & says:

"To kwiz this lesson again, save it to a notebook and kwiz against it until you have nailed it."

but when I add it to the notebook it then says:

"This lesson is already in your notebook. Go to your notebook now to kwiz this topic as many times as you like."

apologies if this has been asked before, but I did search & check the FAQ but didn't find anything.

many thanks  :)

Je pense que cette conversation aurait été plus interessante et utile si une des personnes avait présenté la position du gouvernement d’en manière cool et rationale. On s’attend à cela au niveau C1. Pour moi au Canada, je n’ai pas fait mon retraite jusqu’au âge 66, et j’ai trouvé quitter mon travail plutôt dur parce que mon salaire à temps plein c’est bien, et le travail est un forme de vie sociale. En général,  la vie ne devient pas moins cher. Est-ce qu’il possible que les autres pays développés aient un âge de la retraite plus élevé que France pour une raison ? 

The rules you give are quite useful. Thank you.

One thing that I would add is that I can remember easier if I think in terms of who is actually entering. If the Subject is entering, then we use être, but if the "entering" is being done by someone/something other than the Subject, then we use avoir.

Mes filles sont entrées en CP cette année. -> Mes filles

Nous avons entré les informations dans le programme. -> les informations

This works in other cases where we need to decide between avoir and être.  (or where the sentence seems to indicate that the action is not done by the sentence subject)

In this exercise, "rr" of Pourriez-vous sounds silent but in the lesson (Conjugate pouvoir in the conditional present in French = could (Le Conditionnel Présent)), for the same Pourriez-vous, I can make out clearly she's enunciating it. Is it just that I can't hear the "rr" in this exercise as clearly as the other one?

I thought I’d sorted this out already but evidently not. I believe that the answer I gave in the heading is, according to the lecture notes, correct. Correction welcome. So why was it marked wrong and the correct answer given as “je suis avec cinq minutes d’avance”? I’m fine with this answer too but why was my answer marked as incorrect?

Can you tell me how to decide between usage of 'de' and 'des'

for example

regarder des vidéos de chatons et de bébés

j'ai écrit

vidéos des chatons et des bébés!

2)Also how to say

(Its quite congfusing)

Is it

 C'est déroutant!

Ca me confond un peu!

Merci beaucoup