Bonjour à tous! Incredibly, it’s mid-March already and have I posted our February stats yet? Non! I was off snowboarding in the Alps, but that’s no excuse so here they are: (You can compare this with previous months’ French Test statistics.)
We graded another 121 CEFR French level tests, and 631 smart French tests were taken by eager French learners. It’s a short month and we had slightly fewer new testers as a result but more demand for our smart French tests. This month it seems we had fewer absolute beginners and higher proportion of advanced French speakers testing with us.
French Tests taken by type (CEFR and Kwiz “smart” tests)
Do you know your French level? If not, take our French CEFR test.
Left, CEFR tests by level awarded; right, CEFR French placements tests taken versus Kwizzes taken (our smart French tests)
This month’s Top Testers
Here are February’s Top French Testers.
Since we launched our French Test Leaderboards last month, you can now see whether you’ve taken enough French tests to appear in the Top Testers League. In January, Top French Tester Chris amassed an amazing 226 tests, but in February he was pipped to first place by Helen who took an unbelievable 287 tests.
When Helen joined us at the end of January, her French was rusty and she was graded at A0 – in under a month her enthusiastic French testing has taken her French grammar up two whole levels to just about B1 level. To put into perspective, this is a bit like doing the whole two year GSCE French syllabus in a single month!
It all goes to show, regular tests are one of the fastest and most effective learning methods.
A French test a day will you get an A!
Don’t take my word for it, try it for yourself.
Gruff
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[Follow on Twitter: @gruffdavies] Despite the very Welsh name, Gruff is actually half French. Nowadays, he's a tech entrepreneur (and some-time novelist) but he used to be a physicist at Imperial College before getting hooked on inventing things. He has a special interest in language learning, speaks five languages to varying degrees of fluency and he often blogs about language learning, science, and technology. As well as co-founding Kwiziq, he is the author the Amazon best-selling SF thriller, The Looking Glass Club and the inventor of the Exertris gaming exercise-bike and Pidgin, a free online tool that makes drawing flow charts and relationship diagrams as quick and easy as describing them in pidgin English.