French at A-Level?

Not sure what that is, but honestly it isn't necessary. If an employer is interested in your being able to speak German, they won't see that you stopped at A level and immediately think Hm, can they really speak German though? I want further proof. Including it on your job application is sufficient !

Nonetheless, if you do have the burning desire to obtain such a qualification as further proof then by all means go for it if you're capable. It won't make you any less suitable for a job after all !

This might be really controversial, but if you don't get an A* in French - don't take it as an A-level.

Currently studying A2 French, found the jump to AS pretty much non existent as you basically just learn the same topics apart from the speaking which I found much harder. However I have found the jump to A2 pretty huge.

I found it ridiculously hard, and I'm by no means an idiot. I too love French and have a huge passion for it. Being bi-lingual I find languages fairly easy to learn. However, I achieved an A* at GCSE, then got a D at A level. In all honesty if I had worked harder it would have been easier, but that would mean practising at least 4 times a week which is unrealistic.

I'm doing A2 French atm and I'm not finding it that much harder. For me it's just more boring because of the cultural topic.

At least the more "high brow" topics like feminism and poverty means the conversations are a bit more engaging than in Year 12.

The problem with trying to do French outside of a school is that you won't get a chance to talk in French to other people much - this is key to learning to speak spontaneously. If you really want to do well at this I suggest you listen to the french news (you can do this online) at least once a week and find someone who speaks very good french to talk about your topics to for at least an hour a week in total. You could do this on skype or you could contact a high school near you and make friends with a year 13 student? The AS topics are quite similar to GCSE -music, celebrity culture, holidays, health etc, the A2 topics are a little different - nuclear energy, restorative justice, immigration, history, literature etc.

Oh okay, would you really be able to get your French up to A level standard being home schooled?

And because the most part of people who study A levels go on to apply to university, and universities only give out offers based on three A levels, so in terms of educational progress you're not doing yourself any favors by studying 2 extra A levels, if anything that would just hinder your progress being as your French is very basic so that subject would require ridiculous amounts of travail.

I'm doing A2 French atm and I'm not finding it that much harder. For me it's just more boring because of the cultural topic.

At least the more "high brow" topics like feminism and poverty means the conversations are a bit more engaging than in Year 12.

Have you thought about any other subjects perhaps?

I've thought about History, Classical Civilisation and English Lit? Do you know anything about them?


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I'm not really finding the listening, reading etc harder it's just the more complicated vocab and stuff I guess. But yeh it's actually so boring so many that's why I'm finding it harder cos I can't actually be bothered to do anything!

What do you mean by cultural topic? I know that the syllabus is different across the boards, but I'm studying two films this year and it's so much better than last year I actually really like the films too which is a bonus

Personally I can't say I've been interested in any of the topics at A level But I agree the A2 topics such as immigration are much easier to speak about than the AS topics

I'm sure we'll both be fine... Eventually. To be honest, I'm finding it about the same level of boring as AS, maybe a little more at A2. AS was doing GCSE topics over again while A2 is depressing real world topics. Both are useful for vocab though, you have to admit.



I'm studying AQA, how about you? The cultural topic refers to studying a film and/or book. We're doing both in my class unfortunately.

I think at first the topics are quite interesting. But when you've done about five lessons in a row on poverty it does tend to drag a bit. But it is fun to see what your classmates believe - we started feminism last lesson, so we went around and explained in French why we were/were not feminists. Now I feel like I have top secret information.