French language Q&A Forum

How do we know that he was not carrying in dirty shoes that were expected to be clean. 

How would one say, "He came in, the shoes were dirty.", not meaning HIS shoes? 

There IS ambiguity as to whose shoes they belong to.

I want to learn to read French but I can't find any resources. I hope you can give me some advice and tell me exactly what I should learn on my journey to learn to read French. 

Is there somewhere to view my answers to the written exercises.  I am a bit stumped as I pretty sure I managed (finally) to ace my last effort and would like to compare my responses.Thanks

There is a plural and singular form of our here; "Notre" and "Nos". How is there a singular our if our is already plural?

Pourquoi la phrase"Et puis, aujourd'hui...." commence avec "Et". En anglais on ne commence jamais un phrase avec "And", on utilise "and" pour la continuation d'une phrase.

Can the word taux be used instead of tarif? Is there a difference between the two?

Hi everyone :)

Could you please explain to me why we use "avoir à" instead of "avoir besoin de"?
Also, at what moment/time we use "avoir à"?

Thank you in advance for your time and respond.

The expression "to make new sandals" is "faire de nouvelles sandales" 

To say I have new sandals made, the correct answer is "Je me fais faire de nouvelles sandales" but I don't understand why it is a reflexive verb. I would have thought the answer is "Je fais faire de nouvelles sandales"

Il est quatorze heures de l' apres midi, although the l'aprés midi is unnecessary and probably incorrect, it does unambiguously mean 2pm surely?

In the example, all the indirect object phrases start with à or au.   Au marché, à Paris. In the quiz, my answer got marked wrong.  Il va à chez Jean.  The correct answer appears to be il va chez Jean. Is ‘chez x’ a special case that does not require à?