Hello guys

Any TEF materials?

freshStarz:
Hello guys

Any TEF materials?

Follow the instructions in that comment to get the three TEF books.

https://www.nairaland.com/4672912/all-tef-candidates-canada-immigration/180#129308539

toboizilla:
Guys, who is up for a whatsapp group for TEF intensive practice for the next 2 months?
Shoot me a mail (victoranimate556@gmail.com).
Please I also need TEF of TCF Materials. Who ever has can send me a mail here (victoranimate556@gmail.com).

If you get enough people, I can devote some of my time to helping you guys learn French and also help with some grammar. Je suis au niveau assez avancé pour être tuteur. Je peux vous aider à ameliorer votre connaissance de la langue.

etrange:


That’s nice. Though exams could be a strong motivating factor, it’s actually more fun when you learn a new language simply because you love it. You know, without the pressure of exams and the anticipation of score-boosting results. Since you’re in Canada and very much settled, you can now learn at your own natural pace. With consistency and French speaking friends, it can only get better. With recent events, we can confidently say that learning a new language like French really does open doors of opportunity.

And to add to that: if anyone settles in Ontario or some other English-speaking provinces, they can learn French for free while the government pays the cost.

NuCypher:


And to add to that: if anyone settles in Ontario or some other English-speaking provinces, they can learn French for free while the government pays the cost.

Really? Any link to this?

aestake:

Really? Any link to this?

You can start here. More specifically, this is one example of an institution which offers the free program. I should point out that for most of these services you have to be a permanent resident, not a citizen.

NuCypher:

You can start here. More specifically, this is one example of an institution which offers the free program. I should point out that for most of these services you have to be a permanent resident, not a citizen.

Okay. Self-education continues. Thanks.

I sent a mail since last week, kindly respond and add me to the group, thank you.

toboizilla:
Guys, who is up for a whatsapp group for TEF intensive practice for the next 2 months?
Shoot me a mail (victoranimate556@gmail.com).
Please I also need TEF of TCF Materials. Who ever has can send me a mail here (victoranimate556@gmail.com).

The advice below mostly concerns the speaking test (because it is spontaneous), it is about avoiding the use of English words or English sounding words, you are better off learning the more French sounding synonyms of those words, you also need to be aware of your English brain whilst speaking, so you aren't directly translating from English to French. It is one of those things to pay attention to so that you can get as much points as possible for your level of French.

It's from a guy called Jean K who runs a website called Get Set French

This should be the fourth image.

I also send an email but no response. Can someone please volontier to create a whatsapp group for those writing tef/tcf in the next 2-3 month.

I also have a question; please does TCF something repeat questions like TEF?

Thank you

NuCypher:

If you get enough people, I can devote some of my time to helping you guys learn French and also help with some grammar. Je suis au niveau assez avancé pour être tuteur. Je peux vous aider à ameliorer votre connaissance de la langue.

listening is my problem I hear slow french but I find conversational french really difficult to grab
The grammar and writing am good to an extent but the listening evades me

I will try to upload the TCF materials that I have to Google Drive this week and send the link to your email.

SA24:
Please can you also assist with that of tcf
Adesokanismail@yahoo.com

olabanji88:
listening is my problem I hear slow french but I find conversational french really difficult to grab
The grammar and writing am good to an extent but the listening evades me

This is where I find myself. Any one with tips on how we can scale this?

wright005:


This is where I find myself. Any one with tips on how we can scale this?

You just have to keep on listening...
YouTube, RFI podcasts, Inner French, Français Authentique etc...
Make sure whatever your listening to, you understand at least 80% at any level. The remaining 20% is what'll build your understanding. Those are the words you look up their definitions and use the 80% you know to form context for those words.
Also repeat, repeat, repeat. I enjoyed RFI and Inner French for this. Choose a short audio, with/without transcriptions(I prefer the former) and listen over and over, passively and then actively, you can do some shadowing if you like, until you understand every portion of the audio.
For additional difficulty you can increase the speed of the audio to native level.
Remember listening forms the basis of knowing any language and is crucial for the other aspects. You'll have to put ample time in.
Bonne chance !

How to Get More Practice to Improve Your Listening Skills! - https://www.nairaland.com/4672912/all-tef-candidates-canada-immigration/175#128301974

wright005:
This is where I find myself. Any one with tips on how we can scale this?

olabanji88:
listening is my problem I hear slow french but I find conversational french really difficult to grab. The grammar and writing am good to an extent but the listening evades me.

[quote author=79733139 post=130436990]How to Get More Practice to Improve Your Listening Skills! - https://www.nairaland.com/4672912/all-tef-candidates-canada-immigration/175#128301974




Hello everyone please am taking TCF Next month. Please email me TCF Prep books @ fpncareers@gmail.com
If you have a WhatsApp group please email me the link also.

olabanji88:
listening is my problem I hear slow french but I find conversational french really difficult to grab
The grammar and writing am good to an extent but the listening evades me

Conversational French is typically more challenging than slow french or narrations. So, it's not surprise you find it difficult. Conversational French will usually use escape words, e.g. not using ne...pas, but instead just "pas". For example, someone could say, "c'est pas pareil", instead of saying "ce n'est pas pareil". That will happen in several other forms too, including more confusing forms like "t'inquiete", which literally translates to "worry", but in actual fact means "don't worry". But you really shouldn't be too worried about this, because the conversational french you will hear on the exam day is a lot slower and more straightforward.

There are two ways you can improve your listening. Firstly, listen to french spoken at medium speed, not slow speed. This will start to push you into natural territory, the kind of territory you will get on the exam. It's best you get comfortable with this. For this, try "inner french" on youtube or "L'inconscient" on RFI, which may be a bit technical, but is still quite slow. That's your first step. Find medium spoken french and try get used to it.

Your second step is to do something called "la dictee", which is some kind of dictation. As you are listening to the podcast, try to write down the things you hear. You can try it in two ways: write out exactly what you heard and then check the transcription to see that you are correct, or try to summarize what you heard and then check the transcription. Of course, you may pause intermittently to write the things you have heard or to check the transcription against your writing. What this does for you is that it connects your understanding of the written language to the spoken language. French is one of the few languages where pronouciation follows a set rule. This is unlike english where "weight" and "height" are pronounced differently. In French, those two would be pronounced exactly the same, except for the "w" and the "h". By training your ears to connect the sound to the writing using dictation, you start to get a feel for not only the flow of the language, but also the sound of the language. That will help you listening greatly.

Basically, you want to get to the point where if you heard somebody say "le pays est immense", you want to be able to use that "ay" sound to know that that's "pays" and the "im" sound to know that that's "immense", pronounced differently from the English. You want to be able to tell the difference between the different sounds "im", "en", "in", etc. and you want to be able to anticipate verbs that follow certain nouns, e.g. il y a, or c'est pas, and listen only for the important words that follow. For example, most French people don't even pronounce the "il" in "il y a", because, at the base of it, it's not necessary, if you can anticipate what follows. That's where you want to be in your listening, primarily because it is not every word you will hear. You want to be able to infer from context and from a few phrases.

In any case, Rome was not built in a day. This will take practice and you have to be willing to put in the time.

Finally wrote my TCF exam today and…

It wasn’t what I expected at all.

Expression orale (EO):
The first part, I was taken by surprise and I forgot some of what I practiced for the introduction part because it was jarring to say everything I had memorised before an actual person. She was nice and cool and she tried to be friendly to ease my nerves but it was my first experience speaking French with someone apart from my teacher online and it caught me off guard. Also the question part, I tried to ask as many questions as possible but I didn’t know how to gauge how much time I had spent (she said there was a timer but she didn’t set it and she also took time to respond to my questions). The task 2 was about finding an apartment in Quebec ( one of the easiest questions tbh) but at some point I was struggling to find the words. The last task was to compare between watching a movie at the cinema or at home (something like theatre or movies which do I prefer?) I chose movies and tried to highlight that for me, the ease of access thanks to apps like Netflix, was more important. Also the kind of movies I prefer are documentaries, crime investigations movies like Monk (similar to Sherlock Holmes) etc.

Comprehension orale (CO):
My easiest section because I had soaked myself in formation TCF paid past questions for the last 5 weeks. Anyways, we’ll see how it goes. It was also shocking to me that the audio was played over a speaker and you get a booklet containing the questions with the options. At first I was alarmed at the thought of them reading the options as well but when I saw the options in the booklet, I breathed a sigh of relief. I was just glad that I really worked on the past questions because the audio quality could have been better. At least when I did IELTS we had our personal headsets to listen to the recordings.

Comprehension écrite (CE):
The next section after CO and just like CO, it was manual as well so you shade the answers on the answer sheet and use the booklet to see the questions. I rushed through this section because it was also a repetition of the past questions. Basically the fact that you get to start the next section once you’ve completed the previous made me rush through this section.

Expression écrite (EE):
I had a lot of time left over from the previous sections so I took time to complete the tasks. First task, write a letter to your friends detailing the gift of clothes that you expect from them for your next birthday (something like that). Second task, submit an essay about the traditional dishes in your country and what you like or don’t like about them. Final task, video games are good for the health or not. Summarise both points of view in your first paragraph and give your opinion in the second paragraph. I tried to stick to the word limit and reduce my mistakes to avoid my writing being illegible.

Overall impression, I was wondering if it was possible to quickly flip through the booklet and answer the CO questions before the recording played. CO was my biggest concern but I’m glad I scaled through. I didn’t like that the exam was manual and I had to rewrite my third EE task after I finished because of the mistakes I made, it wasn’t convenient. Manually counting the words was not ideal too, I feel they could have done better but I guess they don’t have a lot of people writing the exam (we were just two) so they were cutting costs. Also I wrote my exam outside Nigeria so I didn’t get any results today, they said they would send it to France and we should expect our results in three weeks. Its going to be a very long three weeks but I’ve deactivated all my alarms for my French lessons with the faith that I won’t have to rewrite the exam 🤞🏾

Hi Dauphine,

Please am writing my TCF next month. I have emailed you and am also writing outside of Nigeria and I would like to speak with you, Thanks for sharing your experience.

I really appreciate it.

regionalbb24:
Hi Dauphin,

Please am writing my TCF next month. I have emailed you and am also writing outside of Nigeria and I would like to speak with you, Thanks for sharing your experience.

I really appreciate it.

Hi, I saw your email request. Unfortunately I don’t have access to that email. You can send a mail to fefiher847@tizter.com

Dauphine:
Finally wrote my TCF exam today and…

It wasn’t what I expected at all.

Expression orale (EO):
The first part, I was taken by surprise and I forgot some of what I practiced for the introduction part because it was jarring to say everything I had memorised before an actual person. She was nice and cool and she tried to be friendly to ease my nerves but it was my first experience speaking French with someone apart from my teacher online and it caught me off guard. Also the question part, I tried to ask as many questions as possible but I didn’t know how to gauge how much time I had spent (she said there was a timer but she didn’t set it and she also took time to respond to my questions). The task 2 was about finding an apartment in Quebec ( one of the easiest questions tbh) but at some point I was struggling to find the words. The last task was to compare between watching a movie at the cinema or at home (something like theatre or movies which do I prefer?) I chose movies and tried to highlight that for me, the ease of access thanks to apps like Netflix, was more important. Also the kind of movies I prefer are documentaries, crime investigations movies like Monk (similar to Sherlock Holmes) etc.

Comprehension orale (CO):
My easiest section because I had soaked myself in formation TCF paid past questions for the last 5 weeks. Anyways, we’ll see how it goes. It was also shocking to me that the audio was played over a speaker and you get a booklet containing the questions with the options. At first I was alarmed at the thought of them reading the options as well but when I saw the options in the booklet, I breathed a sigh of relief. I was just glad that I really worked on the past questions because the audio quality could have been better. At least when I did IELTS we had our personal headsets to listen to the recordings.

Comprehension écrite (CE):
The next section after CO and just like CO, it was manual as well so you shade the answers on the answer sheet and use the booklet to see the questions. I rushed through this section because it was also a repetition of the past questions. Basically the fact that you get to start the next section once you’ve completed the previous made me rush through this section.

Expression écrite (EE):
I had a lot of time left over from the previous sections so I took time to complete the tasks. First task, write a letter to your friends detailing the gift of clothes that you expect from them for your next birthday (something like that). Second task, submit an essay about the traditional dishes in your country and what you like or don’t like about them. Final task, video games are good for the health or not. Summarise both points of view in your first paragraph and give your opinion in the second paragraph. I tried to stick to the word limit and reduce my mistakes to avoid my writing being illegible.

Overall impression, I was wondering if it was possible to quickly flip through the booklet and answer the CO questions before the recording played. CO was my biggest concern but I’m glad I scaled through. I didn’t like that the exam was manual and I had to rewrite my third EE task after I finished because of the mistakes I made, it wasn’t convenient. Manually counting the words was not ideal too, I feel they could have done better but I guess they don’t have a lot of people writing the exam (we were just two) so they were cutting costs. Also I wrote my exam outside Nigeria so I didn’t get any results today, they said they would send it to France and we should expect our results in three weeks. Its going to be a very long three weeks but I’ve deactivated all my alarms for my French lessons with the faith that I won’t have to rewrite the exam 🤞🏾

Thanks for sharing. I wish you success

79733139:
For those who sent a request to me via email for the three books on the writing and speaking tests of the TEF exam, I have sent it to your emails (although very late, because I just checked my Gmail after like a month).

Could you please send me the books as well, email address is olayiwola26@gmail.com

Anyone with Prepmyfuture login and willing to share for free to aid my practise please send me a DM or email at olayiwola_ng@yahoo.com. I will greatly appreciate.Merci beaucoup

Good evening Dauphine

Please I sent you an email. I need your help kindly help respond 🙏🙏I’m preparing for TCF, I need some information from you please

Dauphine:


Hi, I saw your email request. Unfortunately I don’t have access to that email. You can send a mail to fefiher847@tizter.com

Salut a tous et toutes. Please does anyone know any TCF exam centre in the UK that is computer based. My listening result for my last exam in London was not pleasant due to the loudspeaker. Thanks.

canadamustgo24:
Good evening Dauphin

Please I sent you an email. I need your help kindly help respond 🙏🙏I’m preparing for TCF, I need some information from you please

Hello, I don’t have access to the email I used to create this account and the temp email I sent doesn’t work (for reasons I don’t even know). Maybe you should ask your question on the thread so it can benefit someone too

godstino:
Thanks a lot. I started in July last year when someone enlightened me on the impact of french on CRS score and gave me his echo A1 book. But the book was so boring to me until I stumbled upon a post by @Cooooooks about vite et bien and it was a game changer. I employed a private tutor that same month and she was like the perfect icing on the cake. I did a month subscription with ‘learn french with Alexa’ too while I was also listening to the Michel Thomas series at any spare time both at work and at home. Immediately I finished the vite et bien B1 book, I focused my attention on ‘the communication progessive du français ‘ by the same author of vite et bien and also started streamlining my practice towards the TCF exams bécause I discovered I had learnt enough vocabs. My tutor was a major booster and I couldn’t have pulled through without her efforts.

So in summary, I used

Books:
Vite et bien (A1 to B1)
Communication progressive du français
Essential French grammar
The Ultimate French (couldn’t finish reading this)
Vocabulary in dialogue series (Couldn’t finish this)

Audio:
Michel Thomas series
Frenchpod101 (didnt finish all)
Coffee break (didnt finish all)
RFI
TV5monde

YouTube videos
-french extra series (very funny)
-french in action series (didn’t finish this)
-french avec pierre
Some other French channels

Subscription
Learn french with Alexa
Réussirtcf canada
TCF prepmyfuture (I didnt use this one at all. I later gave out the login details cos I didn’t like it)

GROUPS
-Several Telegram French groups especially for speaking
-Several whatsapp groups too

APPS
HelloTalk ( Didnt use this more than once cos I could easily speak french with my tutor everyday)

MOVIES
The African Doctor
Lupin (this is a series)
Some others.

Private Tutor: For the entire learning period. Also, my Tutor was very determined to ensure I succeeded. We became very close. I got to know her through a website called Superprof which someone recommended for me because I needed a physical tutor and not an online one.

Also, I already knew I was writing TCF , so no need studying TEF materials but I participated in their speaking sessions in various platforms.

Overall, the best way to learn the language is to love the language first and then immerse yourself. I’d sometimes speak french to my colleagues and patients at work just for the fun of it LOL. The books and michel Thomas Series made me keep going back for more. Each time I felt like giving up, I’d come to this thread to read People’s testimonies and that would fire me on again. So this thread played a crucial role too. Since my colleagues knew I was studying french, they easily covered for me at work too. Not failing to acknowledge the help of God who is the orchestrator of all things.

Good evening
Please can you recommend private tutor you used and is the person in lagos?

Please can anyone recommend a private tutor for TCF

Think beyond in person tutors.

Preply has thousands of french tutors at different price points ($6/hr to $30/hr).

OladayoO134:


Good evening
Please can you recommend private tutor you used and is the person in lagos?

Please can anyone recommend a private tutor for TCF

Thank you. I need information on the center where you wrote the exam and any contact person , amount paid, the nature of comprehension oral and comprehension écrit if they repeat questions and the sites you used if two or more people and join hand to subscribe

Thank you in anticipation

Dauphine:


Hello, I don’t have access to the email I used to create this account and the temp email I sent doesn’t work (for reasons I don’t even know). Maybe you should ask your question on the thread so it can benefit someone too