French language Q&A Forum

Just a small typo here. It of course should be “about France” or “about the French”. 

I was really scratching my head as to why the lesson seemed to think there was a difficulty about whether it should be "dans la rue" or "sur la rue".

Most people in England would say "I live in such and such street", so there's no difficulty at all in saying "J'habite dans rue such and such".

I suspect that to live "on" a street is an American usage, so perhaps the lesson should deal with that in the usual way by translating as "I live in xxxx street (US  I live on xxx street)" ?

The answer transalted to English is actually ' the more you eat chocolate the happier you are'. I would argue that the more chocolate you eat and the more you eat chocolate are not the same thing.

Les expression négatives. 

Nous ne voulons ni crayons ni stylos. 

Nous ne voulons ni de crayons ni de stylos.  

Which of the above is right?  To my knowledge, always partitive articles are omitted. But I saw some sentences with de. 

Why is est being used with coincer ? Why can’t we say elle a coincé ….?

Or as we know that with depuis, we use present tense , then why can’t we say…. Elle coince là….?

I have a question why do we put an arrival before a sport such as je faire du tennis isn’t du means some or off what does mean if we put it before the sport?

It would be helpful to point out the use of could as well as would.  Yes, there is one example using could, but for me at least, this didn't sink in until just now, and I have a high score on this lesson.  More examples, plus pointing this out in the body of the lesson would be very useful.  

The one example:

S'ils économisaient plus, ils pourraient se permettre des vacances.

If they saved more, they could afford holidays.