Dictation may have been one of your bad memories at school. And for good reason.. This exercise is the bane of many French people, facing the grammatical and orthographic subtleties of Molière’s language. To test your knowledge, Current wife invites you to try out this dictation offered every year to CM2 students by theNational Education. In the quiz, several errors crept in. In the ten propositions, the most daring will have to conjugate verbs in the imperfect tense, make the numbers plural or not, choose the right ending, conjugate pronominal verbs, but also correctly spell well-known French expressions such as“No sooner said than done”. Because the French know it, the French language is full of traps. And although primary school students are expected to know all the most complicated and wacky rules and their exceptions, they are quickly forgotten once school is over. Up to you.
>> Quiz: Would you do this CM2 dictation flawlessly? Test yourself !
The French can test their knowledge regularly
There is only one solution to make fewer mistakes: to exercise. Current wife regularly offers you exercises for this purpose, such as the Orsay dictation, the dictation of the 1950 primary studies certificate or the dictation read by Brigitte Macron to the students of the Boissy-Saint-Léger school in 2021. But watch out for traps. Lovers of the French language will tell you: nothing is more difficult than impeccable spelling. And yet, they care about the subtleties of the French language. As proof, every year the dictation of Tours brought together around a hundred people who came to test their abilities. Several possibilities to register, either by asking your city to participate, or as a free candidate. You will then be able to compete in one of the following categories: juniors, cadets, juniors, senior amateurs or confirmed. The last category is reserved for professionals who have exercised or are exercising a profession related to the French language such as literature and French teachers, journalists, translators and even proofreaders. At the end, the lucky winners are awarded a ranking.