French language Q&A Forum

I thought to "manage to" or "be able to" was "arriver à," "parvenir à" or "réussir à." 

Nevertheless, we've this sentence "Mais j'ai réussi du premier coup," featuring "réussir de" + le coup. Is that correct?

In a situation where we are deciding whether to use le français or simply français with the verb parler, would one or the other be more appropriate in certain settings, or are they both equally valid? I am curious if there are any nuanced differences between the two.

Quelle est la différence?

Is "Il va leur téléphoner." the same as " Il va téléphoner à eux."?

In other words, can a sentence written with indirect object pronouns be replaced by one with stress pronouns?

Aurélie le rappellera ________.  

For this fill-in question I answered d'ici le lundi  (wrong)  instead of d'ici lundi.  This is surely something I "learned" a long time ago (lundi vs. le lundi) but have forgotten because I haven't used it much.  Could you please point me to a lesson where I can refresh my memory?

Thanks very much.

What is the difference between mal and malade? It looks like aller is used for mal and être for malade, but what's the difference. There's also "j'ai mal" using avoir, (not in this lesson). But given the context in comparison to this lesson, I'm guessing j'ai mal is used to say specifically where it hurts, but I'm not understanding the other two.