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French A Level advice

Hi,
I'm planning to do French A-Level, and am at a pretty good level for GCSE, but as I am doing the year 12 summer work I'm realising there is A LOT of new words that I'll be needing to learn. Does anyone have any techniques/ recommendations for how they learnt the words in the first place, but also how they kept reviewing them and keeping them in the long term memory?
Thank you!

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by dak1
Hi,
I'm planning to do French A-Level, and am at a pretty good level for GCSE, but as I am doing the year 12 summer work I'm realising there is A LOT of new words that I'll be needing to learn. Does anyone have any techniques/ recommendations for how they learnt the words in the first place, but also how they kept reviewing them and keeping them in the long term memory?
Thank you!

I would recommend ankhi for vocabulary!

Reply 2

Original post
by dak1
Hi,
I'm planning to do French A-Level, and am at a pretty good level for GCSE, but as I am doing the year 12 summer work I'm realising there is A LOT of new words that I'll be needing to learn. Does anyone have any techniques/ recommendations for how they learnt the words in the first place, but also how they kept reviewing them and keeping them in the long term memory?
Thank you!


Hi! I do French and Spanish at a level so I’m pretty used to having to learn a lot of vocab, and the thing I’ve found most useful is the app Knowt (similar to quizlet but you don’t have to pay for the basic features). I have a vocab bank for each topic, as well as a general one, then I go through a couple of them everyday on the bus to and from school (takes literally about 10 minutes, but works really well for me!) I also recommend adding to these lists with any vocab you find outside of lessons too, from things like articles you find online (even better if they link to multiple topics and you can put them in the general file). Basically, anything you think could be useful, note it down.
If you have any other questions about French let me know :smile:

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