Newsletter: Spring Renewal

Spring Renewal

This week, as Spring is upon us (at least in the Northern hemisphere!), we celebrate this time for renewal and new beginnings, with a nice sprucing up of our Newsletter 🥳

Starting this week, the Kwiziq Newsletter will feature a growing variety of activities for you to read, play, listen to and practise your French, following a specific language-learning topic, be it grammar-focused, thematic or situational for example 🤗

Qu’en pensez-vous ? Join us here to share your first (and second) impressions of this Newsletter with the Kwiziq community 😊

Alors, sans plus attendre, let’s dive in in this week’s theme, which is, of course, Spring!

“Premier mai” de Victor Hugo

Reading and Listening practice – C1 Level

green woods with ray of sunshine

Celebrate Spring and nature’s renewal with this beautiful poem by French author Victor Hugo, while practising your C1 reading and listening comprehension:

Premier mai, poème de Victor Hugo

À la française

Idiomatic Expression

cute girl holding pink roses in a meadow

Here’s a lovely expression to celebrate Spring en beauté!

“Être frais/fraîche comme une rose”

Lit. To be as fresh as a rose
Fig. To be as fresh as a daisy

En contexte:

“J’ai vu ma nièce Sophie après sa sieste. Elle était fraîche comme une rose et tellement mignonne !”

Words Words Words!

Spring Vocabulary – B2 Level

woman gardening and looking at bees

Want to learn and practise some vocabulaire de printemps?
Come and explore our vocabulary list and its interactive word game!

Another great way to remember new vocabulary is to write sentences using it in context. Here’s an example for you to get inspired:

“Au printemps, j’aime jardiner dans mon beau potager tout en regardant les abeilles butiner mes belles jonquilles dorées.”

À vous de jouer !

The Kwizzer Takes it All!

April Leaderboard Top 3

kwizbot holding a trophy

And speaking of the beginning of the month, it’s time to discover our Leaderboard Top 3 for April! This month, we celebrate our super trio: David L, Okpeta J and Elizabeth C!

Pour vous trois, hip hip hip, hourra !

Hurray for Weekend Workout Friday!

Special treat for Premium subscribers

French writing challenges and dictees

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 New Beginnings.

Here’s a little taster for free: Pompidou Center (level C1)

Not Premium yet? Now’s a great time to upgrade! You’ll get these Weekend Workouts every week, plus unlimited kwizzes and multiple notebooks to help you stay organised and make progress faster.

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Spotlight & Updates

Discover Lingo Links!

Lingo Links

A few weeks ago, we launched our first minigame: Lingo Links!

You’ll now find it under the Library menu, marked with a shiny NEW! badge to help you spot it quickly. Keep an eye out — more minigames are coming soon!

👉 Try Lingo Links now and let the fun begin!

And finally, remember to check out our social mediaFacebook, Instagram and Tiktok – for more awesome content!

Bonne semaine à tous et à jeudi prochain !

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Aurélie Drouard

Kwiziq French Expert

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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!