French language Q&A Forum

I understand that you are trying to have us become familiar with native speakers, but this is A1, and my goodness, either my hearing is horrendous, or the pronunciation of some words is just very poor. I cannot find any source that pronounces "met" anywhere close to that presented in the sentence "je mets mon gros pull préféré." Also, what's up with the pause before the last syllable of "déteste" in the sentence "mais je déteste le froid" ? 

Why is the “s” not sounded when it is followed by a vowel? 

For the clause "and I'm talking to a talented painter." why is "Je parle à ..." incorrect? The exercise only accepts "avec" yet the English given was not "talking with," but "talking to."

Why is "a busy weekend" spelled "un weekend" instead of "un week-end"? Is this a parisian vs Québec thing?

I am unclear about when to use each of these. I thought that the lesson notes indicated that they were interchangeable, but in a quiz question, se souvenir was marked as incorrect, and se rappler given. (We remember our last concert)

Allô

For this sentence:

Paul ne mange que de la purée.

Should we not remove the la for this sentence since it is a negative sentence? I thought the rule stays the same for all negative statements. 

Merci

Pourquoi « célèbre mets » mais « plat réconfortant » svp ?

1) pourquoi mets vs plat 

2) pourquoi adjectif avant le nom vs adjectif après le nom

Salut! Je suis d'accord avec toi , mais je ne pense pas que c'est ma saison favorite. Bah ouais cette saison est tres belle. C'est vrais , les illuminations et decorations sont magnifique! J'adore l'ambiance de Noel. Je suis aussi un cinephile donc j'aime trop regarder de les films de Noel par example Home Alone ou Christmas chronicles. J'aime aussi quand le soleil brille sur le paysage enneige et generalment quand il neige.

bisous!!

does Y replace en + place too?

for example,

1) Il habite en France. -> Il y habite.

2) Elle vit en Espagne. -> Elle y vit.