The Kwiziq Team is thrilled to announce that in addition to writing challenges, we now offer dictées! The first set of self-marked weekend writing challenges mixed with dictées – a veritable weekend workout – was sent by email to Premium subscribers. The theme is People.
Titles for writing challenges:
- Al: Opposite siblings
- Bl: If I were Wonder Woman
- Cl: Veuve Clicquot
Titles for dictées:
- A2: Une journée chargée
- A2: Bonjour !
- B2: Description du docteur Arsène K. Merlan
Both writing challenges and dictées are in a format which offers corrections for each phrase to help you pinpoint your mistakes as you self-score.
Please note that these exercises are 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.
Already on our improvement list:
- Improvements to KwizBot’s corrections (ongoing)
- Automarking (once KwizBot is clever enough, hopefully quite soon)
- Kwizzes and English at the end to test and reinforce comprehension (once we figure out the smartest “Kwiziq way” to do this)
- Audio speed control (technically challenging, so it may not be soon, but it’s on the list)
So Kwiziq Premium subscribers, check your email for your weekend workout!
If you didn’t receive it, please
1. Check your Communication Preferences – you need to be opted in to “System communications.”
2. Check your spam/bulk mail folder and be sure to whitelist all email addresses @kwiziq.com
Hey there! What kinds of topics would you like to write about? Please give us some suggestions!
Author info
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 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.