Translation of franqueo in Spanish-English

Hi, I'm back from my vacation. It gives me pleasure to learn Spanish, because I can feel the improvement continously. I studied medicine in the University of Montpellier, a student city in France.
Take your time to answer me, do the vocabulary exercises and measure your progress! Your answers will be kept in the system itself. After that you can look at the statistics. That's pretty cool here.
Thanks again for your letter. For now, the weather here is like it is in your country, ice cold. I will write you a letter in Spanish and in English. So you can compare the sentences.