{"id":52,"date":"2016-11-14T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-11-18T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:33:53","slug":"how-taking-an-online-french-test-can-help-you-learn-the-french-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/how-taking-an-online-french-test-can-help-you-learn-the-french-language\/","title":{"rendered":"How taking online French tests can help you learn French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos.jpg\" alt=\"French tests\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3238\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos.jpg 300w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos-200x200.jpg 200w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos-160x160.jpg 160w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos-32x32.jpg 32w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos-50x50.jpg 50w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos-64x64.jpg 64w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos-96x96.jpg 96w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/05\/test300-depositphotos-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Traditional school education trains people into thinking about tests the wrong way, making them seem like nothing more than a simple measurement of how much knowledge is retained at the end of each chapter. But in fact, testing is a vital part of the learning process from beginning to end. Taking regular French tests is one of the most effective things you can do to learn the language.<\/p>\n<p>When you start taking public or private classes, your teacher tests your French knowledge, either explicitly by having you take a proficiency test, or implicitly by leading you in conversation. This testing at the beginning of the learning cycle is essential: it establishes your baseline and helps your teacher, particularly when it comes to private classes, create a course based on what you, personally, know and don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>But the usefulness of testing doesn&#8217;t end there &#8211; it should be at the centre of the learning cycle. Ongoing French tests will help refine what you know and where you&#8217;re having trouble, which is vital so that you <a href=\"\/blog\/dont-practise-your-mistakes-in-french\/\">don&#8217;t practise your mistakes<\/a>. 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As well as co-founding Kwiziq,\u00a0he is the author the Amazon best-selling SF thriller, The Looking Glass Club and the inventor of the Exertris gaming exercise-bike\u00a0and Pidgin, a free online\u00a0tool that makes\u00a0drawing\u00a0flow charts and\u00a0relationship diagrams as quick and easy as describing them in pidgin English.","sameAs":["https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com","https:\/\/x.com\/gruffdavies"],"url":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/author\/gareth\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}