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Parfois, je prends la voiture juste pour me promener dans la campagne. 

Similar to the question previously from Frank on 'choose a/my career' (and as G noted in his response), the English to be translated is "I found teachers fascinating" but only 'mes professeurs' is accepted. Either the English should be changed to 'my teachers' or "les professeurs" added to the accepted translation. 

My question is about bien que.  Sorry if this the wrong place to bring it up, but Jameson brought it up.  

I had thought that bien que was a trigger for the subjonctive.

I went to Larousse to look at bien que:

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/bien/9074

bien que

locution conjonctive

   despite the fact that, although, though

  bien que malade, il a tenu à y aller    although he was ill, he insisted on going

NOT the subjonctive

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/french-english/bien-que

bien que  CONJONCTION

although

Il fait assez chaud bien qu’il n’y ait pas de soleil. It’s quite warm although there’s no sun.  subjonctive

So, please can someone explain this to me?

bonjour forum et les experts 

Au sujet de la phrase suivante 'je devrais être en train de boire un expresso en (à une) terrasse

je comprends  bien la phrase, mais  je demande pour quoi on ne peux pas l'écrire avec un 'sur' en  place d'un à ou un en. N'est-ce pas aussi correct, 'je devrais être en train de boire un expresso sur une terrasse'?

why is it J'habite A Paris but J'habite EN France and AUX Etats- unis? what is the difference ?

Why is réussir à not used to express "passing an exam"? Merçi en avançe,

K H

To avoid having listening to the whole segment again just to try to catch the syllable or two that you can’t quite get. Maybe upload these to YouTube, which provides this function natively. 

What does "en train de" literally mean?

In an A1 focus test  I wrote"ton père est DANS la prison" because a prison is a physical enclosure. It was marked as incorrect. could you please explain why? Thanks.

Some references say the following meaning about the verbs:

-sortir = to bring out

-sentir = to do

-repartir: to answer back,

is this true?

Merci!