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lime snowBOT
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Please be patient

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fierce edge
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Mostly just practice tbh! Try 30mins or so per day (adjust to whatever you're comfortable with) of french that's a bit hard to understand. Your goal is to pick up some words, but not all. It'll feel a bit uncomfortable at first - I liked to watch let's plays of games I liked in french so I visually had some context and also wasn't solely relying on the words for entertainment and ability to follow what was going on. Don't worry about rewatching to catch everything, your goal is just to train your ears to pick things up faster and faster in that context. Once you get faster at the "easier" words to hear, you'll have more time to process the other words you're hearing.
Another fun way is to listen to music. Music you can listen to over and over without it getting too dry and obnoxious. I liked to try various techniques. At first I just tried reading the lyrics and then trying to hear everything in the song as much as possible. I eventually progressed to listening several times trying to get as much of the lyrics as possible before checking the actual lyrics.
In addition to this, continue to give your brain a break. Listen to something easier for your confidence and comfort (such as InnerFrench) and have french in the background (anything - podcasts, twitch streams, music, whatever, though I'd recommend something you can at least kind of understand) without having to try to listen to it. Your brain will get more comfortable with the sounds without you having to do crazy hard work all the time, giving you some time to process and recover while still progressing bit by bit helper_hearts

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If you're anything like me you should notice a pretty significant improvement within about a month or so. It'll still take a fairly long time to truly be comfortable, but it should give you a nice boost and some decent habits to help you continue to improve. Hanging around in voice chats may be a good step once you start feeling comfortable enough, as the biggest way to truly get comfortable with casual spoken french is to listen to casual spoken french

slate wasp
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thank you so so much :)