“I thought I was good at spelling, but it’s not as easy as expected“At the end of the dictation Elouan, 21, is no longer very serene. “The problem for me is the vocabulary” he explains.
Among the participants, the schoolgirl dictation is not frankly synonymous with trauma. Most have fond memories of the school year.
It is the voice of Jean-Pierre Colignon who guides them. This former proofreader at Le Monde newspaper wrote a twenty books on the French language. “Sunday evenings in July, comma“, the intonation for Jean-Pierre Colignon, the sheet with small squares and the blue Bic pen for the participants, everything is there.
A text all in blue
“I made silly mistakes“Sorry another participant. Seven exactly for this fifty-year-old”I’m not happy, but I had a good time“She finished with a smile.
Jean-Pierre Colignon is experienced in the exercise, he has already dictated several hundred times in front of participants, but for first time in Orleans. The text “Claude only saw blue”, he wrote it especially for the book festival “Ozelir!” which lasts until May 23, 2022 and promotes reading. At the heart of the story, a single-minded man obsessed with one color, blue.