French language Q&A Forum

Is the audio for “parce que je n'ai pas envie de manquer le début du concert” correct? My “French ears” are admittedly not the best, but I’m not getting “envie de manquer” at all, more something like “vide … quel”…

Why is 

grandes quilles de bois acceptable but not grande boule de bois?

In the second example ‘grande’ is corrected to ‘grosse’.

Both are describing ‘big’ as in: 

-eight big wooden skittles

-a big wooden ball

Bonjour,

Could someone please explain why the auxiliary before apparu is était rather than avait ? The whole sentence is: 

Je me souviens encore distinctement de la manière dont j'étais restée bouche bée lorsque cette belle dame, qui avait l'air d'être faite de paillettes, était apparue gracieusement sur cet étrange engin.

Merci, Matthew :-)

What are fleurs de coton?  White flowers?

Since the beginning of the festivities is a precise and limited event, I thought this would use passe compose "ont commencees." Can someone help me understand why this is imperfait?

And the last sentence: J'ai toujour trouve ca magique," I had thought this would be imparfait since it's ongoing and indefinite.

No question here, just: Merci pour vôtre efforts et meilleurs voeux pour un Joyeux Noël et un bon Nouvel An! :)

Bonjour,

I noticed that in the video attached above, sometimes du is used rather than de with retard, for example - J'ai eu du retard / Le train a du retard.

While in this lesson, it mentions that "avoir (5 minutes) de retard". 

Is it when   "avoir ... de retard" uses with no specific time, the "de" can change to "du" ?  

Merci d'avance!

Tecla

Does your car work?

Ta voiture est-elle fonctionne? 

Will it be correct?

Please help!