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Can someone explain to me if it is only jeter and appeler that follow the pattern of becoming jetter- and appelle- in the future tense?

 Do all other verbs ending  as -eter and -eler follow the pattern of becoming -èter- and -èler- in the future tense

bonjour, pourquoi on utilise pas subjonctif passé ici ? merci pour votre réponse.

Hi,

When I am talking about myself and where I live, ,,

What shall I use (à or en)

And also what are the differences between both words

Thank you so much 

there's a question to fill the blank: mais ... m'a vraiment surpris. the answer is "ca", why can't it be "il"?

Why is On besoin d'amore incorrect? Wouldn't either On or Nous be correct?

IMHO, the presentation of "avoir envie de" in this lesson seems to be rambling and less precise than the corresponding "avoir besoin de" lesson. (They were written by the same author.)

Because of the differing presentations, it took me a couple of re-reads to realize that the construction of these expressions is actually IDENTICAL:

 - avoir besoin de + (article) + noun
 - avoir envie de + (article) + noun

and

 - avoir besoin de + infinitive
 - avoir envie de + infinitive

Note that I've replaced the unnecessary "de/d'" by the simple "de", because at this stage of a French course, I don't think anyone would ever say (or write) "J'ai besoin de un crayon". [BTW: I'm impressed by the spell checker. It flagged "de un" ! ]

The use of "parallel text" causes most Brits to prefer US courses. Although the subjects might be of equal complexity and difficulty, the Yanks use parallel text for the overhead projectors and the course notes. That seems to make the subjects seem simpler - both to learn and to remember.

BTW:  Parallel text simply means the use of identical text throughout - except for the differing key words. Look at my "besoin" and "envie" examples above. The differing key words seem to jump out of the page - as if they had been emboldened.

Thanks.

What does RTT mean?  I had never heard of this term in the dictée and its not the sort of thing that is covered in the explaining lessons

In the writing challenge "My mother's favourite singer"

1. The phrase "since then" is translated as "depuis lors" or "depuis" or "depuis cette époque" but shouldn't my answer of "depuis ce moment-là" also be accepted?

2. The verb "has been collecting" is used and is translated as "collectionne" but without knowing how the sentence is going to end aren't we also wondering whether to use  some other verb, as an alternative to "collectionne"?

Why in the case of 'he admires his cat', we use the possessive to translate - il admire son chat, when often in French we translate with the article - le, la, les.

I know this is a simple question but what is the rule when do we translate with the possessive and when do we translate with the article?