French language Q&A Forum

I momentarily thought i had spotted a mistake: 'Chuck Berry avait vraiment le rythme dans la peau' (peau = skin), but apparently it's a French idiom, we say 'in his blood', the french say 'in his skin'. I was momentarily confused by it: 

Why is "de" used in this example:

Noël rappelle toujours de bons souvenirs à ma mère.

Christmas always reminds my mother of good memories.
but not in this example:
Ça rappelle son enfance à mon frère.It reminds my brother of his childhood
Thanks

how can on veut mean we want when its singular?

The English states in the text, that the tree fascinâtes the artist because of the way the branches twist, which I take to be a positive emotion, as she is fascinated by this and inspired to sculpt this. Is there a grammatical reason for this use, or just a feeling of negativity here. Thanks for any response. John

Hi, why ‘ce sont’ rather than ‘ces sont’? It’s plural. Thanks, Stephen

I am unable to see why I should have scored only 5 out of 60 in this exercise, unless you expect me to guess where full stops, commas and exclamation marks go.  This is impossible to know when only short excerpts are given by actors with slow, flat voices!

C'est vraiment tard !  But he seems to be stressing "that". So "c'est" can be "that is" as well as "it is"?

Why use du coup instead of donc? Du coup and donc both translate to so.