French language Q&A Forum

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

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: 

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!

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

Emma says "je crains que ce ne soit un peu trop bruyant pour moi". I understand that this is an example of the 'ne explétif', where the 'ne' does not mean 'not', but is a more 'old-fashioned' form of expression, used with phrases like je crains que, avant que, à moins que, etc. It was explained to me that it is optional in modern French, and not commonly used.  In which case, would it be likely that Emma would use it in this context?  Or is it there just to provide an example of this concept?  (i.e. should we use it or can we safely ignore it when speaking?)