French language Q&A Forum

please direct me to a lesson on how/when to use passé composé with imparfait in a sentence

Sometimes the English translation is not even close to what the French should be. Could you possibly give us the basic expression and then we can make the necessary changes? It is very frustrating and disheartening to spend so much time looking up vocabulary and invariably choosing the wrong word/expression. For example in this exercise," Do you ever hear  from Tatiana?" Looks pretty easy! If you could give the basic "ça + pronoun+arrive de+ infinitive", we might have a much better chance of getting it right and actually using it again. I have a pretty good understanding of French grammar but I am having a hard time with these writing exercises because I don't know the idiom or the expression. It would be more useful if you could list the most important vocab in French in the writing exercise ! Many times the explanations that accompany the exercise don't apply because the problem was not the grammar but the idiom or the expression used. Just a suggestion! I have really improved so much using this site. I do appreciate all your hard work. It is the best site on the Internet.

Lovely resource, really impressed by the thought that's gone into this and the ease of use. I just got C1 on self test but less than half marks on the written exercise, confirming that written French is where I need to up my game!

In the exercise "I don't know this author" English present tense, is translated as "je ne connaissais pas" French Imparfait? Is that correct?

The lesson for "lire" shows an example of "the people read"= on lit

I think the example of the people elect the prime minister should be les gens elit??

Why is: "Tous m'a félicité" incorrect?

Instead of Toute le monde m'a félicité...