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Hi I’m year 8 student wanna know tips for French listening tysm

hi! i did GCSE french a few years back, and i found listening to catchy french songs with the lyrics (songs for children are often best for this as they’re likely to have specific vocab in it), finding french shows or even your favourite show that might offer a french dub over it, with english subtitles helps you to get familiar with accents and the listening in general x

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cbush6016

Hey, I passed my french exams last year. I found that if you can listen to the tracks for past papers and having the transcript with you can help to match what you're hearing with what you are reading. You could also try listening to music and shows with the transcript on. I think you almost have to "tune" you're ears to get used to hearing and interpreting music. I'll link some of the music I listed to help me. With the videos I found it really helpful to have the engilsh subtitles on and at 0.5 speed as you can hear the words more clearly.

Hope this helps :smile:

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username7086565

i take french gcse, and the key to listening in year 8 is often inference, especially in the studio textbooks, they like to introduce words not yet learned in the listening aspects, so if youre good at inference and can actually understand parts of the sentence then you should be able to piece together the rest

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charmaine.d

hi !! A level french student here, just took my reading, listening, translation test on monday !!

other people in the thread have given you great stuff for preparing yourself by listening to more spoken french, it's very helpful to get used to it. from what i can remember at GCSE, some of the reading questions ask about opinions, it's good to just be able to pick out the tone of someone's voice since that can also help !!!

i would also say to trust your gut, since you only get to listen to it 2-3 times, if you're immediately drawn to one answer, then it might be right!!

the key thing is to be able to pick out certain words, french has a lot of unique words but it's common that you'll hear a lot of cognates. vocab is the biggest thing to learn. i think also pronunciation ties into this as well. the more you practice your listening, the more you'll know how the words sound like, and what words you should be listening out for.

it's also good to familiarise yourself with what words can be squished together when spoken, generally, one of the words will start with a vowel. at year 8, as long as you're aware that this happens in spoken french, you should be fine !!!

good luck !!! :danceboy: