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I don't understand this

French: "Vous parlez d'autres langues"
English "Are you speaking about other languages?"

if "de" comes from "parlez", the lesson says it needs to be contracted to "des"
but here, it's just "d'"

Hello,

Is there is a reason why some words require a 'consolidated' partitive with the definite article (du / de la) and some only require the 'unconsolidated' partitive (de)? Such as "je bois du vin' vs. nous buvons 2 litres d'eau par jour'?

I am trying to come up with a little rule to make things easier to learn / remember, but it doesn't seem that it works like that.

Thanks,

Alex

Instead of "après avoir couché le bébé", could I also say "après de coucher le bébé"? 

Why is it faire de l’Akido and not du?

I'm curious about why we say "Je lui parle", but "Je pense à lui.  Can we say, "Je parle à lui" and Je lui pense"? Why does "parler" use an indirect object pronoun and "penser" use a stress pronoun? What is the reasoning behind this? Is it something to do with the meaning of the verbs, or is there no logic to it?

Pourquoi pas je me suis matée? C'est une femme qui parle. 

Le temps

But

La mi-temps ?

Please confirm

I have a notebook and I have added these two lessons.

Un/une become de/d' in negative sentences in French (French Indefinite Articles)

Du/de la/de l'/des all become de/d' in negative sentences (French Partitive Articles)

I went through several rounds of Kwiziq tests and I only get tested on the basic rules, never on the "ATTENTION" or "EXCEPTION" subsections of these lessons.

I got a score of 100%, but it feels like The app should also offer me test on these other topics.

How can I get more tests for these exceptions?

Example of rules I have never been offered any tests

This rule does NOT apply to sentences using the verb être and other List of French "state verbs" - "verbes d'état", with which the indefinite article doesn't change:

OR

When you want to emphasise the meaning of ONE (un/une) - not just a/an - as in He doesn't have ONE car, but TWO, you will keep un/une in the negative sentence - here it doesn't mean no/any:

Pourquoi pas "une cocarde bleue  et rouge"...... ?