Rob723
Has anyone taken the DELF exam? Can you share some tips for me?
Jan 13, 2013 1:35 PM
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Personnally, I find DELF exams tough and unecessarily tricky. I did a practice or 2, (I'm a native French speaker from Canada) and I got some of the answers wrong because I did not pay enough attention to details, or because I would justify an answer by choosing a different supporting sentence in the text. (we would totally dissagree on which sentence was "the right one"). In a A2 level test, it is mentionned in a discussion "je vous livre la machine la semaine prochaine". Then there was a statement : "la nouvelle machine va arriver avant un mois". You had to say true, false or "we can't tell". So the test not only test your French level, but also if you can work out that if the delivery will be next week, then of course the machine will be with you before a month. Another example of the same mentality of trying to trip you in the same test : there were signs, one saying "Danger interdiction de se baigner" and another one "Piscine ouverte l'après-midi. Adulte 3 euros, enfants 2 euros. Réservé aux scolaires de 8h30 à 10h30". There were more signs, but then after you had to decide which one meant "on ne peut pas se baigner en famille tôt le matin". Strickly speaking, both signs should be right : the first one forbiding any kind of swimming it should apply to families who wants to swim in the morning - but this is only my logic, but only the second one would give you a point. So one has to be careful to not answer too quickly.
January 14, 2013
J'ai passe B2 avec 76 points. Je ne le trouve pas difficile. Il faut apprendre des choses propres a cet exam, comme par ex. celle que le temps est bien limite, qu'il faut operer d'une langage assez developpee du point de vue du lexique et de la syntaxe, il faut s'appuyer sur les faits au cours de l'oral, faire des reference etc. Je m'en suis un peu preparee avec le manuel "Reussir le DELF B2". En mai je vais passer DALF et j'espere de le bien reussir aussi ...
January 14, 2013
Sure no problem.
January 13, 2013
If you find any information about the DELF exam, I'd be grateful if you could share it with me also :)
January 13, 2013
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