French language Q&A Forum

Hello just a general observation/suggestion, sometimes a lesson is recommended by the bot but then we can't take the mini quiz because we already took it recently. So probably the bot should have recommended other lessons instead?

OK, here goes my attempt at a literal breakdown of this idiomatic turn of phrase.  "The menu is going to put you in full view of all there is." So, what exactly does  "en" mean or refer to in this sentence?  If the contraction "en" were not used, how would the sentence appear?: "Mon menu va vous mettre plein la vue de ...(quoi)"?

"You have been very lucky that day", "Did you have my message?", and "I had three presents for my birthday", are literal translations from the French - they are NOT English.  "You were very lucky that day", "Did you get (receive) my message?", and "I got (received) three presents for my birthday", would be correct English versions of those sentences.  This might be of concern to non-native English speakers who are using this program to learn French.  It seems to me that it would be best to learn to use BOTH languages correctly.

Almost reluctant to ask this question based on the number of comments and confusion on this topic but here goes…….

The question was to write: 

“I had my hair brushed”

HINT: se faire brosser les cheveux = to have one’s hair brushed

In the comments, Cécile writes:

You will use ‘se faire faire quelque chose mostly when you are having something done by someone else.

So on that basis, as the question implies that someone else brushed my hair, I answered : 

“Je me suis fait faire brosser les cheveux".

However, the correct answer is :

"Je me suis fait brosser les cheveux".

Could someone explain why I’m wrong?