I enjoy using this site but cannot work out how to add accents when typing in the writing challenges. The method suggested for the other areas of the site (holding down key and selecting required form) doesn't work for me. Thank you!
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These are self-marked tests, so you’ll be shown the correct answers as you go and asked to score yourself against them. Once you’ve completed the exercise, you can come back to this post and take a look at the list of grammar topics tested. If you have questions please post them under the most suitable grammar topic (if it’s related to a specific point), or here or on the QandA forum for general questions. Don’t forget you can add any of the lessons below to your notebook(s) if you made mistakes in these areas during the exercises and then kwiz against them to strengthen the areas where you discovered you were weak.
A1 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “At the French restaurant”
Grammar lessons included in A1 exercise
A2 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “Every summer, my family and I would spend our vacation…”
Grammar lessons included in A2 exercise
B1 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “If I was Batman, I would …”
Grammar lessons included in B1 exercise
B2 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “That day, we had decided to go for a walk in the woods”
Grammar lessons included in B2 exercise
C1 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “NINA: I just had Alice on the phone…”
Grammar lessons included in C1 exercise
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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!
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Bonjour Peta !
The challenges are currently supported by a third party, hence our accent picker doesn't apply to them.
Try switching your computer keyboard to US International (name on Chrome) to have access to accent shortcuts.
I hope that's helpful!