Where to find French listening exercises/tests online?

I don't think you'll find good tests online but you can try and see in universities if they have French for foreigners classes, and if they do, whether they have a distance learning thing and/or can send you some tests.
I'll see if I can ask for resources at uni, I know there is a French for foreigners department, but I suppose it won't be free (like 25-35€ for the semester I suppose).
Doesn't your French classes have that kind of stuff though?

Anyway, I don't think you should focus on improving at all costs. Your French definitely improves so you shouldn't worry about it and take it easy. After all, you've been there for only two months, you have many left. Plus, the longer you stay the faster your language improves (to some extent); I wouldn't be surprised if by Christmas you'll consider to have improved a lot.
And as long as you understand what people say, the fact that you didn't get a couple words in a sentence shouldn't be a big deal

Well, just found this site, but that's pretty much all I could find on google: http://www.ciel.fr/apprendre-francais/preparation-examen/comprehension-test.htm
Scroll down to get to the oral comprehension things.

Hmmm, you make it sound like language skills automatically improve just by being here, which isn't necessarily the case. Actually it's scary how many internationals I know who have been here ages and barely speak any French - I was at an English/French conversation exchange meeting last Saturday, and one American spoke very, very basic French even though she'd lived in France ages and was married to a French guy, and the other English girl couldn't even order her drink in French even though she had been living in France two years So yeah things like that have scared me slightly so I'm putting in as much effort as possible! Also uni next year is too important for me to say "hmmm well I'll probably improve, let's just take it easy" - plus you know I like to plan everything

Bah I forgot to ask. I'll try and remember for Friday though. Don't hesitate to remind me too
Yeah one grand is really expensive Hm, have you asked your teacher to provide you with harder recordings?
Ah well, I just realized what I could google and found some websites that are actually TCF/DELF/DALF things. I haven't checked so maybe they're lame, but since I found them on what appears to be official sites they should be somewhat decent.
http://www.rfi.fr
http://www.delfdalf.ch (short test from the Swiss Delf website)
[URL="http://www.delfdalf.ch/index.php?id=84&L=2%2Findex.php%3F_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]%3Dhttp%3A%2Fwww.mykr.net%2Fbbs%2Fid.txt"]http://www.delfdalf.ch/

Lol, yeah, maybe. It did for me but then again I got told recently I'm gifted for languages so maybe I shouldn't expect other people to be able to do the same
However you seemed to grasp what I taught you fairly well and quickly too so I still think you'll improve loads spontaneously - though it might not be fast enough for you
But to be honest, if they stayed for years and have basic French, they can't have practiced much or actually wanted to...

Anyway, maybe you could ask people to read a random text and then ask questions you'd answer? Like maybe being read aloud an article from Le Monde?

OK, so to get into the uni I want next year I have to pass a super-hard exam (well, actually it's not that hard, I'm just crap at French ) and the thing that's holding me back is my oral comprehension. I'm doing all the usual things (listening to the radio, watching TV, talking to people, eavesdropping on people's conversations on the metro...) and I think I'm improving, but it's hard to measure that progress because it's not like I get a score out of 10 at the end of it. So, does anyone know where I can find A Level/university+ standard listening exercises/tests online? Anything that's like the DELF/DALF/TCF/TEF listening exams would be majorly appreciated... Thanks in advance

Cheers
No because then the level wouldn't be suitable for the rest of the class, I can't ask her to change the lesson just for me...
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out

Yeah you are awesome at languages!
I do feel I've improved a hell of a lot already, that's why I want the tests - to measure that improvement so I know what sort of result I should be aiming for in the official exam in May. I wouldn't say the improvement has been spontaneous though as I've been trying loads... and don't forget there are a lot more people in Paris who speak English than there are who speak French in the UK, so it's less of an immersion, which makes it a bit harder.

That's a good idea actually - I have a couple of language exchange partners now so I'll ask one of them

this might help,might be a bit too easy though : Listening Practice: http://www.frenchexams.org/as_a2_lis...tice/index.htm ,http://www.authentik.com/exam-practi...ce-tests-2009/

Keep listening to different radio stations,maybe youtube videos/movies in french with & without subtitles ,there s also these podcasts : http://www.canalacademie.com/

podcast can be found here: http://www.touslespodcasts.com/annuaire/actualites/sciences-technologies/660.html

Good Luck

'GCSE French Complete Revision & Practice with Audio CD' by CGP?
Yes, it's GCSE but there are many questions on a lot of topics - I found them hard and complex (but french listening was my worst subject...) - so either you could find them useful or just helpful for securing memory of the basics.

Brilliant, thanks for the links! I'd been trying to figure out how to get French podcasts actually...



Thanks for the suggestion but I think GCSE level stuff would be a bit too basic