Progress towards my goals
This week I took the RFI Savoirs online placement tests and I think I can say that I've achieved my goal of A2 by July. My results were:
A2: 11/15 (a score of >=11 means I passed this level and could be a higher level)
B1: 8/15 (a score of >=6 means I'm on the way to this level but not quite)
B2: 7/15
I won't take any more online tests until September when I'll retake the Dialang and RFI tests to see how I've progressed. I'll make the decision then if I'm going to take the DELF B1 exam in early November. It's taken me 6 months to go from zero to A2 so I'm not certain that I'll get to B1 in another 5 months. I only want to take the exam then if I'm confident I will pass.
Super Challenge Progress
Reading - 588 -> 764 pages / 5000
Film and TV - 1220 -> 1505 minutes / 9000
Speaking - 2hrs
- 30 mins italki lesson - casual conversation about holidays.
- 1 hr italki lesson - half the lesson, I talked about my job and in the second half, she posed the question "what is your favourite season and why?" so I talked about that, the ocean, outdoor activities and their risks and dangers. Came away with a lot of new vocabulary. She noted that I pronounced the word détails wrong (should be pronounced like travail), and also pronounced Les oreilles incorrectly. She also noted that I often use the incorrect gender for words like dernière/dernier and première/premier, but nothing too serious.
- 30 mins italki lesson - focused on Imparfait. When tested on it, I knew how to conjugate correctly and knew the rules for when to use both. But when I had to try to tell a story which needed a combination of imparfait and passe compose, I realised that there were a few cases where I didn't automatically know which to use. We'll be working on this again in next weeks lesson so I want to try and work on this beforehand.
Listening
- 285 mins of TV (no subtitles) - "Les filles d'à côté" (now up to Episode no. 30), and finished Harlan Coben's "The Stranger".
- 30 mins of podcasts - "Kiffe ta race"
Reading
- Finished DIMILY#2 (352 pages). Listen+Read. Counted 50% (176 pages) for the SC. My eyes don't like to read after a day of reading on the computer for work, but this book is simple enough that I could still follow the gist when I shut my eyes and just listen. I'm also trying to make sure listening is my priority and that I'm listening more than I'm reading.
- Started DIMILY#3
Courses, Grammar, Other
- FSI Basic - Unit 7 tapes 2-5. I skipped Unit 5 and 6 because I was getting a bit bored and I didn't think I needed more practice for those topics. Unit 7 is a better level of difficulty.
- Kwiziq is now up to 75% in A2, 50% in B1 and 5% in B2. I want to focus on knowing when to use passe compose or imparfait better so I created a notebook for all the Imparfait lessons so I can also do quizzes just on that, and I also did a few of the Passe Compose vs. Imparfait fill in the blank exercises.
- Les 500 Exercises de Phonetique A1/A2 - I did Chapters 2.1 and 2.2 this week.
- Gold List Method - I had been thinking about what would be a good system for processing the new words and corrections I get during my italki lessons (since I've never tried to memorise vocab and I don't get on with things like anki or memrise). This week I watched a video with Lydia Machova where she mentioned she uses the Gold List Method for processing her italki lessons. I'm going to give this a go. It might work for me because I like writing things out by hand. I'll put my corrections from italki, and stuff from Kwiziq that I have trouble with, and any other useful words and phrases that I come across.
- Singing in the car
- learnt the lyrics for "Naïf" by Gims, and "La Boheme" by Charles Aznavour.