French language Q&A Forum

Advised by Cecile: "But the construction you suggest ending with a pronoun might be used by a very young French child but isn't correct French."

 I have never seen it so pointedly stated anywhere. Seems to me once you 'learn' that faux pas you are halfway through the struggles of using pronouns....where to put them.

I find this advice so clarifying. I may be making too much of a big deal abut it...but it hit me like a lightbulb.

Do you think, modified a little,  it is advisable to adopt as  rote? Would it hold up universally enough. 

Do not put your object pronouns at the end of a sentence (after the verb) UNLESS it is the STRESS VERSION OF THE PRONOUN. 

Elle m'a répondu- I take that the past participle here is not feminine because the me (which refers to the female narrator) is an indirect object?

Kind regards,

Kevin

Hi, it's not clear to me from the instructions whether you're meant to attempt the dictees after only one listen, or whether it's better to listen more than once. Is there a guideline here, or is it just left to the student to choose?

Thanks

In the phrase "mais j'ai trouvé très utile d'y ajouter les exercises Hanon que tu m'avais recommandés"
shoudn't it be "exercices" instead of "exercises"?

My question is about bien que.  Sorry if this the wrong place to bring it up, but Jameson brought it up.  

I had thought that bien que was a trigger for the subjonctive.

I went to Larousse to look at bien que:

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/bien/9074

bien que

locution conjonctive

   despite the fact that, although, though

  bien que malade, il a tenu à y aller    although he was ill, he insisted on going

NOT the subjonctive

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/french-english/bien-que

bien que  CONJONCTION

although

Il fait assez chaud bien qu’il n’y ait pas de soleil. It’s quite warm although there’s no sun.  subjonctive

So, please can someone explain this to me?

One of the possible answers for the end of the last sentence was I believe "...dès que je peux" for the translation of "as soon as I can".  I chose pourrais instead of peux because I thought the sentenced implied an action in the future.  I was a bit surprised to see a present tense used here.  Can you explain why present is preferable to future?

Various authorities suggest that one uses voir for the cinema and regarder for the tv. Could you clarify? After I watched the film, after I saw the film... ??

I love the use of the colors !  You might consider using them in all the examples as well.  Finally, for even greater clarity - select a color for the subject of the verb (that which is doing the "bringing to mind").  Again, the colors are so powerful. Thank you for all the great lessons.