French language Q&A Forum

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? 

We say «J'aime LES fleurs MAIS je dessine DES fleurs.»

Why?

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.

Despite studying some references given to me by Maarten, I still erred in choosing the wrong past tense for the translation of "Hi Charlotte, have you been following the Cannes Festival this year?".  I interpreted 'has been following' (past progressive, I think, in English) as a continuing action throughout the year, hence imperfect tense.  If you had said " Did you follow the Cannes Festival this year", I think I would have chosen passé composé.   Still a bit confused.

Could I also say 'en 1778, il est parti de la Corse pour aller étudier en France' ?

Merci de m'aider en avance !

why use "pourra" instead of "pourront"? I thought tout means every, all.

How can I re-take the placement test? My computer glitched the first time, & I submitted the test by accident, so I am actually at a much higher level than what they are suggesting. Help!

Is there a list of verbs that are followed by "a" ?....  such as demanded 

Would we not always say "un" fois deux. i am not sure why the example uses the feminine article "une". I understand une fois would translate more directly to "once" instead of one times (...). or is it that Une is agreeing with fois a fem noun?

In the example with Merci de votre appel, is de votre a kind of shorthand or contraction of d’avoir appelé?