French language Q&A Forum

Bonjour Madame Cécile !

While attempting a kwiz ,I was provided with the following sentence ->

Les enfants ont rangé les cadeaux _________ sapin de Noël .

The answer marked correct was -> au pied du (at the foot of)

However, I would like to ask whether the options - “au dessous du / autour du” are correct ? 

Just wanted to convey a small request-

Whenever, you feel free and comfortable, kindly help me ( as you always have done) with my queries which I posted lately as follow-ups .

Merci encore ! 

Je vous souhaite une bonne journée !

One of the fill-in-the-blanks exercises has a line, "En novembre, je fais antichambre."

What does this mean, (as it's quite foreign to my American sensibilities)??

Can someone explain why the first verb in the extract is in the perfect, while the second (and subsequent) are in the imperfect? They all seem to be describing the continuing circumstances, which calls for the imperfect as I read this: Expressing opinions and describing with the imperfect tense in French (L'Imparfait)

Not entirely sure what this rule entails / under what circumstances it operates. 

Thanks in advance! 

Does one say "Je n'aime pas de...." or "Je n'aime pas le/la/les/ce, etc?

Hi.  I love these dictées.  Is there any way of getting access to more of them?

Thanks

Megan

I really enjoyed this short video and transcript, thank you for this Kwiziq. Can anybody answer the above for me please? I have recently moved to France and could really benefit from watching programs with accurate subtitles as i find Netflix etc really poor and i can't find any channels on TV with available subtitles. Can anybody recommend to me some good resources? Many thanks to all. 

"J’ai commencé par laver et changer les draps, ce qui n’est pas une partie de plaisir toute seule"

I don't understand "toute seule" here. It appears to be behaving as an adjective, not an adverb.

If it is an adjective, what is it supposed to be agreeing with ?

Why is it « nouvel » and not « neuf » when the raincoat would be brand new from the store? I thought neuf is for new, never been used, and nouvel is for been used but still pretty new.