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[untold quiver]

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[zealous sparrow]

looks pretty A1 to me going by this

oh is this supposed to be for production orale

[snow kettle]

Ahh so is it A1?

Also did you spot any mistakes?

[zealous sparrow]

i mean going by what's on the grille yeah it looks a1 to me, some of the stuff on there doesn't really apply tho

[zealous sparrow]

yeah I'm a little too tired to format them prettily rn but let's see
d'Angleterre, dix-neuf, j'étudiais, couramment pas fluide, ma passion, j'étudie le français, pendant deux heures (pour might work too idk), tous les jours, de One Direction, dessiner (ou dessiner de l'art mais c redundant je pense), mes correspondants, je suis à l'aise avec tout le monde? (j'ai pas compris ce que tu voulais dire), nous regardons... jouons à Roblox

but none of that really matters for being A1 probably

[snow kettle]

Merci beaucoup!! 🩷

I honestly thought that I was A0 lol

[zealous sparrow]

i mean A0 isn't really a thing

[zealous sparrow]

you're welcome ❤️

[rose pewter]

A0 is a thing but it's when you literally know nothing

[snow kettle]

I did a test on lawless French and it told me I was A0

[hard crystal]

A0 isn't a CEFR level, but some places will use it just to help you orient yourself. CEFR levels aren't about what you're working on, but what you can do already.

[carmine knot]

Pardon but isn’t « suis d’Angleterre » a little stilted? Thought it should be « viens d’Angleterre »

[vast wasp]

Yea you're supposed to use viens

But suis can also be heard

[snow kettle]

Salut! Enchantée! Je m’appelle Lauren, et je viens d'Angleterre. J’ai dix-neuf ans, et j’étudiais français en école il y a 9 ans. Mais maintenant, j’aimerais parlé français couramment pas fluide, c’est ma passion. À l’heure actuelle, j’étudie le français pendant deux heures tous le jours. Mon passe-temps est la musique (de One Direction est mon préféré, et honnêtement, mon préféré est Louis Tomlinson en One Direction, il est incroyable), et dessiner en Procreate sur mon iPad, et écrire avec mon correspondants! J’adore lire mon livre aussi. J’aime mon copain très beaucoup, et je suis relaxant avec il tout le monde, nous regardons YouTube et jouons en Roblox, et Fortnite, et Among Us parfois.

I've made all of the corrections, does it look good now? Thank you for all of your help!

[vast wasp]

Don't write couramment pas fluide xd

She said you should say couramment, not fluide

Salut! Enchantée! Je m’appelle Lauren, et je viens d'Angleterre. J’ai dix-neuf ans, et j’étudiais le français à l'école il y a 9 ans. Mais maintenant, j’aimerais parler français couramment, c’est ma passion. À l’heure actuelle, j’étudie le français pendant deux heures tous le jours. Mon passe-temps est la musique (celle de One Direction est ma préférée, et honnêtement, mon préféré est Louis Tomlinson de One Direction, il est incroyable), et dessiner sur Procreate sur mon iPad, et écrire avec mon correspondants! (do you mean one penpal or several? it's either mon correspondant or mes correspondants) J’adore lire des livres aussi. J’aime beaucoup/énormément mon copain, et je suis relaxant avec il tout le monde (idk what you mean here), nous regardons YouTube et jouons à Roblox, et Fortnite, et Among Us parfois.

[snow kettle]

Than you so much!!

Also I meant several pen pals! When I was talking about my boyfriend, I was saying that we like to relax together by playing YouTube etc

I couldn’t quite think of how to phrase it but I tried my best

[vast wasp]

You need to learn ensemble then

Means together

il is a subject pronoun, you're like never gonna see it without a verb right after it

And tout le monde = everyone

You also need to learn possessive adjectives

Mon ma mes
Ton ta tes
Son sa ses
Etc

[snow kettle]

Yeah I really want to find a way to memorise everything, but I can't

[rose pewter]

You're not expected to memorize everything, that comes with time

Wordreference is an excellent source if you're stuck on a word

[snow kettle]

I can't even seem to memorise the simple things at the moment though lol

[snow kettle]

I'll have a look at it!

[rose pewter]

You probably have more knowledge than you think, it just can be frustrating and take time

I regularly forget words lol

[snow kettle]

It feels like I have some of the knowledge that I built up of French from school, but that was so long ago that I've forgotten even some of that. But I don't feel like I've learnt many new things since re-learning French, and I still struggle with verbs/tenses and I feel so stuck with them

In school I remember just not understanding verbs/tenses, like there was a mental block, and that's still the case

[zealous sparrow]

i promise you that you're not stuck, learning a language is just a very slow process

[rose pewter]

After school i felt like i forgot everything, when evaluated I was told I had the lowest level possible. It took a while but having that foundation in my head definitely helped me

[snow kettle]

Yeah I took a French test that told me I was A0 lol even though I know quite a few words, and can form a simple paragraph about myself/my family

[zealous sparrow]

i took 2 years of French in high school and didn't use it for 10 years and forgot 90% of it, you'll get it all back

[zealous sparrow]

it sounds to me like you're craving signs of progress to stoke your motivation. that's actually one of the difficult parts of language learning because it's so slow, you hardly ever notice day to day progress. but CEFR levels are really not a good source of motivation because for most of us it takes at least 6 months to climb each cefr level

[snow kettle]

Yeah I get that, I should probably remind myself that I am improving even if I don’t notice it. So many of my hobbies I started by being terrible at them, but I put in the effort and now I’m decent at them

[zealous sparrow]

yes, and, you can look for different, more sensitive ways to gauge progress. A simple example being keeping a diary of 3-5 new words or concepts you learned a day. That way you have visual evidence of daily progress.

[zealous sparrow]

And something that helps for me is just to occasionally notice and celebrate those moments of "wow I just expressed something I don't think I could have expressed before, I think I'm improving."

[snow kettle]

Oooh that’s a good idea thank you!! I might make an AJA notebook

[zealous sparrow]

Learning language is funny because for a lot of people, the process is really angst-ridden. I feel like it brings out a lot of... communication based social trauma? or something? In any case, I see so many people saying "I'm stuck, maybe this is impossible for me" and I wish I could just brain transfer my understanding/emotions to them. Feeling lost and like you're in a maze is common, but really it's not a maze, it's just one long path that we're all walking together and every new thing you learn is a step along that path.

[zealous sparrow]

alternatively, you could use #aja for that and potentially help other learners learn new words

[snow kettle]

Thank you for all of your advice Morgana!! It means a lot to me☺️

[zealous sparrow]

of course good luck! we're rooting for you!

[snow kettle]

Thank you so much!!

[vast wasp]

cute emoji

[snow kettle]

I’ve already got 2 AJA’s for today🤭

[vast wasp]

wish i could steal it

[zealous sparrow]

you can! on desktop

[vast wasp]

how

i dont have nitro

[zealous sparrow]

i think you right click on it and open in browser or something?

[zealous sparrow]

oh

[snow kettle]

Then save image

[vast wasp]

eh

[snow kettle]

Save image and send it as an image

[vast wasp]

if i have to go get the image every time

eh

[zealous sparrow]

you could ask them to add it to the servers emojis in #about-server you never know