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[unkempt kiln]

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[ionic pasture]

When you use s'attendre à, you ar expected to use a noun next. But a subordinate clause isn't a noun so you have to nominalize it first. That's where the undefined pronoun "ce" comes in to make nominalization possible. So: Ils s'attendent à ce que tu mémorises tout en très peu de temps.

[icy lake]

i barely understood ;-;

what is nominalization and a suborrdinate clause?

[ionic pasture]

Nominalization is a transformation of whatever that's not a noun (verb, adjective...) into a noun (for example, to expect => expectation). Though it's not really one here since we just need to make the subordinate clause act as a noun by adding ce in front of it.
As for the subordinate clause, it's a clause (essentially a sentence) that depends on a noun or a verb to make sense. For example, in "the girl (that) Peter likes", the clause "(that) Peter likes" is subordinated to "the girl".

[glossy aspen]

Si lo comparo al español, la preposición a es parecida: esperar a [sustantivo] (esperar al final), pero esperar a que [oración] (esperar a que empiece la función)

En francés es igual, sólo que además de que tienes que añadir ce para conectar à a una oración

E igual que en español, à ce que rige el subjuntivo

[frosty cloak]

basically you need a noun after à so if you want a verb you need ce que to refer to the fact that the action happens

[modest furnace]

à + que = à ce que