a dictation to celebrate the Olympic Games

In Paris, in front of the Eiffel Tower, 3,000 participants gathered on Friday April 12, just over 100 days before the Paris Games, for a dictation. Sport has established itself in the story. Before starting, a schoolgirl is confident. “I’m used to it, I do it every day“, she assures. Among the authors of the dictations, David Foenkinos, who did not want to make the task too easy. “There are some pitfalls, there are some difficulties. On my text, I would have made mistakes“, indicates the novelist.

French spelling faltering?

The French would make more and more mistakes. Among the spectators, a rare pearl, who says: “I always pay attention to the spelling quality of everything I write. I take a long time to send text messages, which I write with punctuation, accents“. The participants in the dictation admitted having made some errors. They still obtained a nice medal at the finish.