What if we brought dictation up to date? To revise your spelling while having fun, writing Current wife offers you a dictation and its correction to do alone or with your family. In this tenth part of the podcast Dictation!navigate between the lines of the work “Memories from beyond the grave” by François-René de Chateaubriand. The text is dictated by Madam speech therapist, spelling influencer and author of the book “Madam speech therapist, erase all your spelling mistakes”, published by Éditions de l’Opportun last October. The correction will then be available in the next episode and on our website.
Revise your classics with this text from Chateaubriand
Through his autobiographical story resembling a great lyric poem, the precursor of French romanticism explores his life through major events such as the French Revolution, mixing his personal experiences with philosophical considerations. The lyrical and romantic style of this work helped establish François-René de Chateaubriand as one of the major writers of the 19th century in France.
The podcast “Dictation!” invites you to revise your spelling by practicing this classic of French literature. Here, be careful to conjugate the imperfect tense correctly.
The text of the dictation
PROVINCIAL HABITS
My grandmother relied on her sister for the care of the house. She ate dinner at eleven in the morning, took a nap: at one o’clock, she woke up; she was carried to the bottom of the garden terraces, under the willows of the fountain, where she knitted, surrounded by her sister, her children and grandchildren.