French Writing Challenges

French writing challengesA new set of self-marked weekend writing challenges was sent by email to all subscribers – and you may notice something different about them. We are absolutely thrilled to announce some major improvements.

First off, they are now in the Kwiziq system, which means that you can use our accent picker to type accents exactly as you do for kwizzes. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg! The major improvement is that KwizBot will now offer corrections for each phrase, to help you pinpoint your mistakes as you self-score.

Please note that this new version of writing challenges is in BETA, so you may encounter the occasional bug or glitch. Please do let us know about these so that we can get them fixed asap. As always, screenshots and information about your system (OS and browser, including versions) is extremely helpful. We’d also love to know what you think about the new format and function: good, bad or indifferent.

So Kwiziq subscribers, check your email for this week’s challenges!

Hey!Hey there! What kinds of topics would you like to write about? Please give us some suggestions!

Author info

Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since.  She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!

Laura K Lawless

Laura is a French expert and Kwiziq's Head of Quality Control. Online educator since '99, Laura is passionate about language, travel, and cooking. She's American by birth and a permanent ex-pat by choice - freelancing made it possible for her to travel extensively and live in several countries before settling permanently in Guadeloupe. Laura is the author of Lawless French, Lawless Spanish, and other websites and books on French, Spanish, Italian, English, and vegetarianism. She spends most of her spare time reading, playing with food, and enjoying water sports.