French language Q&A Forum

My French teacher just discussed that words such as Intelligent, imprimer, australien, fin.... All utilise a short "ang" nasal sound rather like what is used with the english word 'sang'. (The phonetic sound is identified with a symbol resembling epsilon with a squiggly over it- ɛ̃).  Listening to your recordings it sounds a lot like "ung" to me. Are both pronunciations OK? On Google it sounds like your usual recording (ung-), but on reverso it sounds just like 'ang-ɛ̃'. Clarification would be so welcome.

Why is he so ambivalent towards France?  What is the explanation of his exile and attitude?

Bonjour,

Just want to ask why there is "le" in this sentence. It translates to english as we can if we want to, so why the le? 

Merci :)

In the first examples, you have 

Jacques a manqué son train.

and then,

Vite ! On va manquer le début du concert !

Why is manquer conjugated in the first example, but not the second.  The sentence structure seems identical, except instead of have, it is go.?

Thanks.

I see that Jacques a manqué... is the passé composé, but I can't delete my question now.

Hello,

I'm hoping you can clarifying something.

I had to translate the following sentence to French:

This year I remembered her birthday for the first time

I used:

Je me souvenais s'anniversaire pour la première fois.

I was told this conjugation was incorrect and I had to use "je me suis souvenue".

I don't understand why?

Thanks in advance.

uuuuhh..... Where's the transcript, all I have is audio?