French language Q&A Forum

On reading your post, and listening to this lesson, the 1st plus does have a soft "s" and the 2nd one is silent. After listening to Forvo and Reverso, I noted that they pronounced the "s" in the 1st plus with a Z sound.  Is this regional? Can you clarify please.

Can I say 'il tente de parler français' instead of 'il essaie de parler français'?

There is an extra word after 'et je m'ennuie' in the audio, I cannot figure out what it is. 

England doesn't have provinces! The way England is subdivided is frankly horrendously complex, however, it suffices to say that the examples given are of counties.

The word province, when it doesn't just cause confusion, is more likely to mean the "regions" because some of the original post-WW2 proposals for an official top level subdivision of England used this term.

Je suis désolé but I cannot make a complete sense out of the following sentence: que vous humecterez de vos lèvres avant de lui essuyer les joues. You make le mouchoir wet with your lips before wiping your cheeks? So, what’s she doing ? 

For a translation for "I think she's right," why is "Je la trouve raison" not correct?  

A quiz question was as follows:

Je te donne ________ de mon salaire. ——> I give you half my salary.

I answered “une moitié”,  but the correct answer was “la moitié”.

Why is this the case? I understood from the lesson that these two are interchangeable. 

Even if they are not interchangeable, I would think:

-  “une moitié de mon salaire” ——> one half of my salary

Whereas:

-  “La moitié de mon salaire” ——> the half of my salary

Thanks 

give me some examples of pronominal verbs in imperative negative

I'm being a bit pedantic but in English the first phrase is not

If I was rich I would go to Japan

that grammar is incorrect because it's conditional and it should be

If I were rich I would go to Japan