Hello everyone!
Does anyone know any website online that offers free assessments of your language skills, and breaks down what you should work on, what your weaknesses/strengths are etc.? This would be extremely useful to language learners who don't have the opportunity to use the language on a regular basis, and thus have difficulty becoming aware of their weakness, and what they should study.
In my current situation this would be perfect.
The other day I made a list of all the languages I want to improve in, and wrote down what I should focus on in order to make that happen.
For example: Spanish
- work on subjunctive.
- work on reflexive verbs and when to use them with respect to their non reflexive counterparts.
- improve your vocabulary through reading.
- Put subtitles of Club de (Cuervos for sentences I don't actively command, or that contain new vocabulary) into Anki and get a Mexican to record the audio for each flashcard. I finally decided I'm going to focus on Mexican Spanish, as I have spent years floating around betwen different dialects)
However, the reason I am able to do this is because I have used Spanish extensively, from working in Latin America, to spending lots of time with Spanish speakers etc.
However, when it came time to create a study plan for French, I had no idea where to start.
I can read French with ease, even if sometimes my vocabulary is lacking. I can also speak French quite quickly, correctly, and with a good accent.
My problem is that I learned French from one year of very basic French in high school, one semester of an advanced class I tested into at University, combined with self-study using Assimil, shadowing Assimil, and getting really interested in French phonology.
When I watched the TV show, Marseille on Netflix, I used French subtitles, and had to pause it and look up lots of words and expressions. However, if I were to take a CEFR exam, I would be B2 in probably everything except listening.
I wish there were more websites and tests online dedicated to helping people learning a language recognize what their weaknesses are, and what they should focus on to improve. at this point, I'd even be willing to pay for that information!
Free ways to find your level, strengths, weaknesses etc.
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Re: Free ways to find your level, strengths, weaknesses etc.
TV5 Monde has an online mock TCF (test de connaissance du français) that breaks down the result into: compréhension orale, structure de la langue (grammar), and compréhension écrite.
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Re: Free ways to find your level, strengths, weaknesses etc.
You might like DIALANG from Lancaster University. It covers Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish-gaelic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
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