DELF and DALF exam preparation

The DALF C1, C2 exam are for more advanced levels, it means (Diplôme approfondi de langue
française), many French in France who were born in France do not have this proficiency in French,
why if French is their mother tongue? Simply because to reach this level of language proficiency,
you have to have a minimum of culture, more complex subjects and obsolete science or letters are
dealt with. These exams seek to assess the skills of French students in 4 areas: oral
comprehension, oral production, written comprehension and written production, and the most
important of these 4 areas are oral production and written production. If you want to live in
France or if you already reside in France, you need to have a wide vocabulary, know how to
pronounce well, know how to conjugate verbs well, but essentially what you need to know is... We
need to be able to produce an understandable speech. We need to be able to produce
understandable and coherent texts. My goal is to develop my communication skills and therefore
improving your ability to communicate in French. And this through 2 objectives, the first must be
to produce understandable oral speech so that you can be able to start a conversation or expose
an appropriate topic, and this is much more than speaking French, many are able to speak French,
but not all are capable of producing an understandable and coherent speech, your second goal
should be to improve your ability to produce texts, well-written, understandable and coherent
texts for Francophones.

Your obsession should not be able to say a few polite formula phrases, but your obsession should
be to express increasingly complex ideas and phrases with precision. You must not only be able to
fill out forms, write birthday cards, you must be able to properly write increasingly complex long
texts and do it with a perfectionist passion. While you improve your written production you are
obliged to read, you are also improving your written comprehension, they go hand in hand with
each other. What I propose is that you concentrate on production. While you improve your oral
production you will be obliged to listen to your own voice, with which your oral comprehension
will necessarily improve, what I am proposing in summary that you concentrate on producing
French produces oral French, produces written French that must be your obsession and your goal
and let me tell you that this ambitious approach has worked for me. Now we are going to go
through some general tips to effectively prepare to take the exams:

-Collect specific material for the DEFL and DALF on the internet or buy it in bookstores

Oral production

Choose a topic that you can get from the material you are preparing, talk about it and film myself
so that I can evaluate myself later

During the exam:

-Tell yourself: “Je suis relax, Je suis calm. Tout ba bien se passer.

-If you don't know a word, use another or rephrase your phrase
Written production

Write by speaking out loud. Write aloud and thus you will also improve your oral production skill
and while you are preparing always use a dictionary in case you have any doubts about a word and
to know it immediately (which means that I must already know the grammar perfectly), but
obviously don't do it when you're doing mock exams

During the exam

-Write the subject that they ask you on a separate sheet, where you can write and erase
everything you want so that it is written as correctly as possible when you copy it on the exam
sheet

-the oral comprehension

Read the questions before listening to the audio

How to practice French

Absolute truth

There is no other way to learn to speak than to speak, and to write by writing.

Absolute truth 2

It requires investing a minimum of time daily to obtain strong results; at least two hours daily,
about 5 times a week.

It does not count to listen to music in French, watch movies or write spontaneously (passive way),
I am talking about concentrating two hours daily studying and practicing French at home.

1. Practice the 4 areas of communication in French: speaking, listening, reading, writing, almost at
the same time.

Material:

A written text with its respective audio, preferably with dialogues: books CDs, also what you find
on the internet (especially what contains real life dialogues)

2. A notebook or a PC or laptop to write

Steps to follow
1. You choose the text with its respective audio and look in an online dictionary for the words you
don't know

2. Listen carefully to the audio several times while reading the corresponding text

3. Read the text aloud several times

Although after doing this exercise, studying is the only way to get proficiency, what is sought
with this is to train the brain to intuitively grasp the grammar rules of French

4. Carefully copy the text you have been reading and pronounce it while you write it

This exercise should be done every day, at least two hours a day with total concentration and if
you can do it for more hours, much better.