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vox nihili:
-look for key words and try to answer your questions with them the first time round
-on the second round, put the pen down and actually do some listening!

When you're writing, you're not listening. You'd be surprised how well this technique works.

Blues Fan:
First of all, don't panic yet! You still have time to master listening. I always had trouble with French listening and panicked all the time when it came to listening. My teacher gave me some helpful tips which I would always abide to during my VCE tests, SACs and exams.

1. Read the question and understand what they are asking for so you don't re-read the question during listening time
2. Brain storm keywords that you might hear
e.g. what colour is the house? Brainstorm: red, blue, green, yellow.
3. When practising listening write down in the column for notes the possibilites. (In the exam you won't be able to, but as soon as the lady/man says "This paper is 2013.... Listening part A...." you can quickly write down the possibilities.
4. As soon as you hear words that match your list of possibilities, tick it off, saves time from writing it out while you listen to the rest of the dialogue.
5. Always take notes in French, unless you are 100% sure of the word in English.
6. Write down what your heard. You can always back track it and find out what it could be.
7. If all comes to worst, make an educated guess based on the information on the question, never leave a question out, you may get consequential marks for grammar.

Hope that helps. Also it helps if you go onto Youtube and listen to podcasts and that. Good luck! Bonne chance!

the girl at the rock show:
I know that you said that you've been listening to French radio and French music for a long time without results, but I really believe that that's the best way to go. Except it's really important that you're able to understand what you hear. If you're just listening to songs and radio without any sort of comprehension, it's not going to help you much at all. I recommend sites such as RFI (le journal en francais facile) and TV5Monde ('apprendre' section), which have transcripts.

Something to try: listen to the clip over once, then listen with the clip again with the transcript (look up words you don't know and write down their definitions), and then listen once again without the transcript but with the list of new words. Keep listening/reading until you can understand 100% of the article. If you do this every day, you will definitely improve :) Once you can understand this spoken French, your listening tests at school will seem ridiculously slow.

Basically: listen to French that (you can understand) EVERY DAY.

sparked:
Unfortunately it is just impossible to learn a language via osmosis. Listening to music and radio can complement your French studies greatly... but the studies have to be there in the first place.

Make sure you've nailed down your grammar to begin with. The more common grammar patterns and irregulars are especially important. Often you will hear subjunctive  - je sois... etc. or conditional, je n'aurais jamais pensé que etc. etc. and until you learn them on paper, you won't be able to recognise them aurally.

French exchange is the best thing you will ever do for improving your French.

You're in Year 10, don't stress! Maybe sign up for Alliance Francaise classes, get a native French tutor to practice speaking with. I didn't do Year 10 french, picked it up in Year 11 term 2 but my listening is strong because I am efficient with how I use my time!

Cheddar Cheese:
sparked:
Wow! You've only been learning french for a year?!!! Thanks for the tips. I'm getting better!

Also, I've noticed that you're doing two languages this year. I'm interested in doing french and german for vce, and although latin is quite an outlier in terms of the course, I'd like to know how you're finding balancing two languages. The thing is that I'm significantly less adept in german than I am in french, but I know that if I do well in both of them, the scaling will be really good. I'm currently weighing german with biology - would you say biology is quite easy to lose marks in? And also, do you have to know how to use a microscope for the sacs? I'm so so sorry I'm derailing this thread haha, but I'd appreciate any first-hand info. Thanks heaps haha

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