Just posting this here because everyone does lol.
I was so out during listening; couldn’t understand anything. The plan is to wait out a couple months and give TCF next.
I didn’t immerse myself or study as productively for this anyway, so I wasn’t expecting a 7 anywhere.
Hello,
I’m just venting out here to document my journey. I’ve been on and off with French and have been stuck between A2+ and B1 since as long as I can remember.
I lost motivation, I came back, tried to fight, lost motivation, and have been stuck in this cycle.
I was studying under a teacher for a while and she was good, but something went down in her life and she doesn’t teach anymore and I took another pause.
This time, I’ve booked my TEF exam straight up – to familiarize myself with the structure as well as to be consistent.
I’ve been using Claude and GPT to study now honestly and I don’t know if it’s the right approach. And therefore, I need some guidance.
I’ve got both of them to test me and coordinate together to find out my holes in grammar. I’m now learning those specific grammar problems.
I tried listening TEF out of a YouTube mock test and it killed me. 22/40. It was so difficult. My problem is that I can make sense of words spoken, but I can’t bring them together fast enough to make sense.
Writing has always been A2+ and B1-, and reading was 25/40 because some scary words showed up. I can’t judge my speaking properly. I feel like I can talk in regular daily topics but specific topics where I’ve to pose questions, I’m out. It’s a mess.
I don’t know what to do and how to study.
I know I’m not going to attain the score that I need in this TEF attempt anyway, but I want to fight and reach there so bad.
I’d love any advice on this.