Paris MarathonThis week, we’re working on our endurance by running fast and steady 🏃➡️ If you’re looking for an original and challenging way to discover Paris, why not participate in the Marathon de Paris ? This iconic race offers a breathtaking “open-air museum” tour, starting on the Champs-Élysées and passing legendary landmarks like the Louvre, Place de la Bastille, and the Tour Eiffel before finishing on Avenue Foch. In 2025, Paris Marathon even surpassed the New York Marathon in participation with a record-breaking 56,950 runners! Motivés ? 🏅😊 Alors, sans plus attendre, put on your best running shoes and get running towards all the exhaustive French Kwiziq content we’ve selected for you! 👟😊 À la françaiseFrench Expressions and Idioms Podcast ![]() Let’s get warmed up with a body-positive French expression that will fit you like a… nice pair of trainers! 🤗👟 À la française Ep. 11: “Être à l’aise dans ses baskets” And don’t forget that these podcasts now feature 1 brand-new fill-in-the-blank exercise 🤩 With each new expression, you get its meaning, some useful in-context examples and… a fun podcast to fully master it! 🎧 Want to listen to more of our podcasts? Check out all our episodes! La course à pied, c’est le pied !Reading and Listening practice – B1 Level ![]() Now it’s time to get running with this motivating dialogue between two friends meeting for a jog. So let’s join them and practise some useful running vocabulary in the bilingual article below: Let’s fill in some blanks!Marathon/Jogging Vocabulary – B1 Level ![]() Finally, to stay on track with our progress, let’s put into practice our energising Marathon/Jogging vocabulary in French with the Fill-in-the-Blank exercise below: Hurray for Weekend Workout Friday!Special treat for Premium subscribers ![]() Friday is Weekend Workout day – a special treat just for our Premium subscribers, with fresh dictations and writing challenges to boost your listening and writing skills. This week’s theme is Keeping Fit. Here’s a little taster for free: A day in the countryside (level B2) Not Premium yet? Now’s a great time to upgrade! Note: We send dictations and writing challenges by email, which you can opt into or out of. To check your email preferences, please follow this link and make sure there’s a check next to System Communications in order to receive exercises every week. 📬 Want to receive this newsletter in your inbox? Go to email preferences and make sure you have Language tips and tricks newsletter turned on. And for more invigorating French content, remember to check out our social media – Facebook, Instagram and TikTok – for more awesome content! Bonne semaine à tous et à jeudi prochain ! [signature.Aurelie]
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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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09 April 2026 in Newsletter



