{"id":782,"date":"2014-08-21T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T06:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2015-11-05T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T13:03:00","slug":"celebrating-10000th-french-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/celebrating-10000th-french-test\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re celebrating our 10,000th French Test!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/celebrating-10k-tests-static-text.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-783\" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/celebrating-10k-tests-static-text.png\" alt=\"celebrating-10k-tests-static-text\" width=\"335\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/celebrating-10k-tests-static-text.png 335w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/celebrating-10k-tests-static-text-300x130.png 300w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/celebrating-10k-tests-static-text-240x104.png 240w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/celebrating-10k-tests-static-text-160x69.png 160w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/celebrating-10k-tests-static-text-80x35.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we delivered our <strong>10,000th French Test<\/strong> since we first created Kwiziq, and our students have given more than <strong>290,000 answers<\/strong> to our French test questions!  We believe in celebrating small victories, so to mark this occasion we&#8217;re giving away some goodies to our 10,000th tester.  And, as you may have noticed, we&#8217;re celebrating with some <a href=\"\/\">virtual French champagne on our homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-786 size-full\" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/virtual-champagne-e1408601864920.png\" alt=\"virtual-champagne\" width=\"428\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/virtual-champagne-e1408601864920.png 428w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/virtual-champagne-e1408601864920-300x119.png 300w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/virtual-champagne-e1408601864920-240x95.png 240w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/virtual-champagne-e1408601864920-160x64.png 160w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/08\/virtual-champagne-e1408601864920-80x32.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted to announce the person who took the 10,000th French test is<strong> Adam Egger<\/strong>.  Adam unwittingly swayed the odds in his favour by taking a remarkable 162 smart French tests (so far) during August and has been making incredible progress with his French as a result. Unsurprisingly, he&#8217;s currently <a href=\"\/leaderboard\/2014\/08\">this month&#8217;s Top Tester<\/a>, though there are eleven days still left to go for that top rank&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Whilst everyone can enjoy our virtual champage, I&#8217;m delighted to announce that Adam will be receiving <strong>a bottle of real French champagne<\/strong> to enjoy.  We&#8217;re also giving him a series of <strong>five private French lessons<\/strong> with our resident French expert Aur\u00e9lie to practise French speaking skills via Skype.<\/p>\n<p>You never know what we might celebrate next, so <a href=\"\/\">get French Testing<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div id=\"kwiz-app\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-url=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/api\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"Test your French against the CEFR standard\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-return-url=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/celebrating-10000th-french-test\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-return-title=\"We&#039;re celebrating our 10,000th French Test!\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-questionspercomp=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-token=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-template=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-kwizkey=\"sorter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday we delivered our 10,000th French Test since we first created Kwiziq, and our students have given more than 290,000 answers to our French test questions! 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