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| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3917 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: French | Message 1 of 5 25 February 2016 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
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When I started French I basically grabbed any French thing I could listen to or watch, even if I couldn't understand it, just to have it to hear or see, but I want to be more focused now, and am dabbling in Chinese and want to see how far I've progressed in some way, what do you guys do to test yourselves? I don't have a vocabulary that I could talk to anyone, or even read a short news story yet, but there must be some way of testing myself?
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| Rhian Moderator France Joined 6501 days ago 265 posts - 288 votes Speaks: English* Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 25 February 2016 at 1:13am | IP Logged |
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Try posting on www.forum.language-learners.org as
you might get a few more answers. Of course this site is still in use but due to various technical issues an alternative forum was set up and is a lot more active than this one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5312 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 3 of 5 25 February 2016 at 3:21am | IP Logged |
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I bookmark an online test and do it every once in a while. I note down my score and the date, but I don't check my answers, so I can redo the same test later. I try not to remember the questions, and I don't look anything up afterwards, all to allow me to redo the same test later.
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6129 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 4 of 5 29 February 2016 at 4:51am | IP Logged |
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For Japanese, I take the JLPT every year. It's not perfect, but I feel like if I do any better that's progress. (Though maybe by this measure, I'm kind of stalled.)
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4448 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 5 of 5 29 February 2016 at 3:38pm | IP Logged |
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You can watch different TV shows online and on DVDs with English subtitles. After the first few minutes turn off the subtitles if possible and try to follow the dialog. A lot of words in between you don't know you can look them up phonetically (in the case of Chinese using Pinyin).
1 show that is easy to follow is "America's Got Talent" or "Britain's Got Talent". The show has half-dozen versions in different countries. The format is basically the same except you hear people speaking foreign languages like the Chinese version 中国达人秀. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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